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During Postdoc Appreciation Week, the Graduate School and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs celebrate our Notre Dame postdocs, their invaluable contributions, and the lasting impact they have on our drive to be a force for good in the world. To understand the full scope of the talented postdocs that Notre Dame has attracted and the research they are conducting, meet three of them.

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Jaydyn Callender, a rising senior at Howard University in Washington, D.C., spent 10 weeks this summer at the University of Notre Dame as part of the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP)—a hands-on initiative designed to inspire students to pursue graduate school and provide them with a clear roadmap to get there.

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Check out the research one of our graduate students is involved in! To help identify — and ultimately mitigate — heat islands in South Bend, a team of University of Notre Dame researchers has partnered with the city to collect data using a novel method: garbage trucks. Ming Hu, the associate dean for research, scholarship and creative work in Notre Dame’s School of Architecture; Jason Carley, an assistant professor of industrial design; and Siavash Ghorbany, a doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering, have designed and deployed sensors on the city’s fleet of garbage trucks that can continuously monitor and record data on temperature and humidity as the trucks complete their normal routes.

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Guided by Ryan Sensenig, a grassland ecologist at the University of Notre Dame, doctoral student Max Scheel helped design a small "pocket prarie" on campus. Read more about the fascinating work they are doing.

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This fall, the Keough School of Global Affairs welcomed a diverse group of undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students who bring global experience and a shared commitment to tackling today’s pressing challenges—from climate change to post-conflict peacebuilding. Among them are national debate champions, Peace Corps volunteers, Fulbright scholars and grassroots leaders who have professional experience in more than 40 countries.

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'What through the universe in leaves is scattered' (Par. 33, 87): Mapping Global Dante in Translation This exhibit traces the global journey of Dante’s masterpiece through rare and valuable printed editions, highlighting…

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Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P. Gustavo Gutiérrez Research Award applications are now open for interdisciplinary…

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Inha Park ‘28 is a third-year Ph.D. student in Italian Studies. This summer, with support from the Nanovic Institute, Park traveled to Milan and Bolzano to explore the emergence of the Corea (Korea) and and Sciangai (Shanghai) neighborhoods peripheral to major Italian cities.

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Dr. Jessala Grijalva, Post Doctoral Research Scholar at the Institute for Latino Studies developed a special course for the new South Bend and El Paso cohorts in this program. Dr. Grijalva also graduated from the Graduate School in August 2024 earning her Ph.D. here, as well.

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Three University of Notre Dame researchers have been awarded significant three-year grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of work related to the archeological aspects of Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, contextualizing Catholic resistance in…

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Twenty-two University of Notre Dame students have been named finalists for the 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Student Program, with another seven singled out as alternates for the award. The finalists include 18 undergraduate students and four graduate students.

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Lauren Yates, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received the 2025 URA Tollestrup award for Postdoctoral Research. The URA Honorary ​Tollestrup Award for Postdoctoral Research, named after celebrated Fermilab scientist Alvin Tollestrup, is one of the honorary awards…

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This is a reminder that if you have graduate students who will participate as postdocs in the 5+1 Teaching and Research or 5+1 Internship tracks for the 25/26 academic year, please follow the instructions below to prepare them for their August 1st postdoc positions. (Step #1 should be completed …

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Joryán Hernández, a peace studies and theology doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, was tapped as the first-ever recipient of the Sr. Dianna Ortiz, OSU Peacemaker Award from Pax…

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Seven faculty teams of collaborators from the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana, USA) and Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine) have received grants from Notre Dame Global and Notre Dame Research to pursue…

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The Graduate School, in partnership with Notre Dame Global and the Center for Italian Studies, offers semester- and year-long dissertation research fellowships at Notre Dame Rome to advanced Humanities, Social Sciences, and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. students. During the Spring…

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Maritain Graduate Fellow Nicholas Ramirez presents at the Saint Mary’s Seminary and University Moral Theology and Seminary Teaching…

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At its annual meeting in June in Portland, Ore., the Catholic Theological Society of America named Flora Tang, a peace studies and theology doctoral candidate at the University of Notre Dame, as the recipient of this year’s prestigious Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award. Named after the late Notre Dame theology professor Catherine Mowry LaCugna, the award celebrates the best academic essay from a new scholar in the field of theology within the Roman Catholic tradition.

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