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The London Global Gateway has hosted the fourth annual Global Dome Exchange Program: an intensive three-week seminar designed to accelerate dissertation progress and build international networks of young scholars in the humanities field.

The new Notre Dame Center at Kylemore Abbey in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, will be dedicated on Aug. 25 (Thursday) with a Mass in the abbey’s Gothic Chapel, an academic convocation and a blessing of the center’s headquarters in Kylemore’s Saint Joseph Hall.

The University of Notre Dame Eck Institute for Global Health has partnered with AIDS Free World, an international advocacy organization, to address health problems affecting the global poor.

Arts and Letter junior Emily Vincent discovered Chunmiao Little Flower on a service trip during high school in 2013. There, she learned the extent of China’s issue with orphaned and abandoned children. There are an estimated 600,000 abandoned children in China—98 percent of whom have disabilities. That first experience set...

The second Heidelberg-Notre Dame Summer School in Computational Chemistry took place at the University of Notre Dame from July 4 to 10, following its launch in Heidelberg last summer.

The University of Notre Dame’s new Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs announces the opening of applications for its inaugural academic program, the two-year professional Master of Global Affairs. The program is designed to prepare new generations of leaders and agents of change in governments, nongovernmental and civil society...

Tamara Kay, a scholar with extensive experience in Latin America and Africa, will join the new Keough School of Global Affairs as associate professor of global affairs, according to Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School. Kay will hold a joint appointment in the Notre Dame Department of...

Calling recent insults to Mexico and its people “churlish, insulting political theater,” the president of the University of Notre Dame, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., said Friday (July 8) that he is dedicated to strengthening the University’s presence in that nation’s academic, government, corporate and Church sectors.

University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., is joining a University delegation this week on a trip to Mexico City to continue strengthening relationships and growing Notre Dame’s presence in academic, business, Church and government sectors there. The trip, which includes Global Forum: Latin America, is designed...

The University of Notre Dame will take part in two programs this summer to strengthen cooperation and support the growth of amateur athletics in Chinese higher education. Assistant Provost for Internationalization Jonathan Noble is scheduled to speak Tuesday (June 7) in Beijing at a signing ceremony between Notre Dame and...

On May 31, 2016, the U.S. Department of State updated the Travel Alert for Europe. The expected expiration date of the alert has been extended to August 31, 2016. There are specific events noted on the alert which can be read on the State…

Seven members of the Pontifical University of Chile (PUC) visited Notre Dame last week to strengthen developing research partnerships and plan upcoming workshops in biochemistry and chemistry, the latest in a partnership between the universities started in 2013.

Notre Dame International is pleased to present a webinar entitled "Students Abroad" that addresses issues of health, safety, and other topics of interest related to Notre Dame's great variety of educational opportunities abroad. The pre-recorded webinar is intended primarily for parents of students…

With a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Ebrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic studies at Notre Dame, has launched a three-year project to enrich scientific and theological literacy among recent graduates of Islamic seminaries in India.

The Kennedy Scholars Thesis Seminar introduces students to research strategies and techniques in the humanities, social sciences, and arts, as well as academic resources in and around London.

Steven Buechler, professor of ACMS, notes that having applied and computational mathematics and statistics in one department is uncommon, but fits well with the importance of computation in both fields.  

  A political science major set to graduate this spring with acceptance to Harvard Law, Rachel Wang claims choosing Notre Dame is one of the best decisions she has made in her life—and has had the most formative and inspiring results.

Inaugurated in summer 2015 with cohorts in Rome and London, Notre Dame International’s Global Gateway Seminars are designed for accepted and deposited incoming freshmen who will matriculate to the University the upcoming fall.

Barry McCrea, the Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies and a professor of English, Irish language and literature, and Romance languages and literatures, has been awarded the René Wellek Prize by the American Comparative Literature Association for the best book in the past year in comparative literature.