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The University of Notre Dame and Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) are launching three collaborative grants that expand the existing academic, religious, and cultural partnerships between the two universities. The collaborative projects include the ND-UCU Faculty Collaboration Grant Program, the ND-UCU Curriculum/Course Development Grants, and the ND-UCU Library Guest Scholars Program.…

Where is Notre Dame Pre-College jetting off to on our next international adventure? We’ll give you a few hints: Big Ben, double decker buses, Kings Cross Station, the Great British Baking Show...In Summer 2023, high school juniors will have the opportunity to travel to exciting London…

Kenya’s 2013 Basic Education Act expanded the number of national schools and increased student body diversity quotas based on the act’s guiding principles: the “promotion of peace, integration, cohesion, tolerance, and inclusion,” and the fostering of “the spirit and sense of patriotism, nationhood, unity of purpose, togetherness, and respect.” This...

Notre Dame's Office of Pre-College Programs will offer Global Scholars in fall 2022 to current high school sophomores and juniors looking for opportunities to internationalize their education and take a college-level course.…

“I offer my prayers today for all of Ukraine, and especially its churches and clergy, and ask that the Notre Dame community and everyone who values freedom to worship to do the same. Let us stand with people of faith as they resist such inhumane aggression.”

The world’s leading defenders of religious freedom will gather in Rome July 20-22 for the second annual Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit, hosted by the Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative.

Michael Pippenger, vice president and associate provost of internationalization at Notre Dame, and Natália Maria Félix de Souza, assistant professor and advisor for international and institutional affairs at PUC-SP The University of Notre Dame has signed two agreements with Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), including a Memorandum of...

The Rome Global Gateway hosted the conference “The Catholic University, Environmental Justice, and Research for a Sustainable Future” from June 16 to 18, 2022. The conference officially inaugurated the Consortium of Catholic Universities (CCU) and launched the CCU’s two-year intensive research focus on environmental justice and efforts to promote a...

Effective July 1, all faculty, staff and graduate students traveling abroad on University business must register their travel and attach their confirmation email to their Concur expense report. The process is similar to the requirement to attach an agenda when traveling for a conference.…

Marco Ruggieri (left) and Joyce Rondaij (right) are the first recipients of the Italian Studies Research Library Award. The first recipients of the Italian Studies Research Library Award, funded jointly by the Notre Dame Center for Italian Studies…

  Shoemaker, left, and Wilcox The 2022 class of Michiana Forty under 40 includes two Notre Dame staff members: Michael Shoemaker, with iNDustry Labs, and Colleen Wilcox, with Notre Dame International. The program, organized by the South Bend Regional Chamber,…

Twenty-seven University of Notre Dame students have been selected as finalists, and another seven as alternates, for the 2022-23 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Established in 1946, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program, assisting graduate and undergraduate students with pursuing graduate study, teaching English...

University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak, organizer and president of Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), entered into an agreement today to significantly expand the existing academic, religious and cultural partnerships between the two universities.

Philippa Webb, visiting professor and distinguished fellow with the Notre Dame London Law Program, was recently awarded the top prize in international law publishing for her 2021 book on the right to a fair trial. The American Society of International Law awarded her book, The Right to a Fair Trial...

"As we celebrate AAPI achievements and recognize the vibrancy of these cultures this month, may we also take time to better inform ourselves and continue to fight the scourge of racism that all too often mars our society."

Due to travel restrictions to China, Notre Dame International hosted a week-long series of virtual meetings and events to celebrate partnerships and create new opportunities in higher education with Chinese institutions and organizations. Michael Pippenger, vice president and associate provost for internationalization, attended eleven meetings from April 18 – 21,...

Notre Dame’s relationship with Ukraine is in large measure related to its close ties with Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), established in Lviv in 2002 as the first Catholic university founded on territory of the former Soviet Union.

Ukrainian Catholic University’s (UCU) Institute of Ecumenical Studies (IES) has created a platform allowing its students to tell their stories to students and academic communities around the world. A two-hour virtual event titled “Online Solidarity Meeting with Ukrainian Students”…

This semester, students taking Hadas Elber-Aviram’s London in the Literature of the Fantastic course were some of the first to interact with the G.K. Chesterton Collection at the Notre Dame London Global Gateway. Students on the course explore literature set in London, where the city is weaved into fantastical stories....

In continuing solidarity with the people of Ukraine, the University of Notre Dame will light the “Word of Life” mural on the south side of Hesburgh Library in the country’s colors of blue and yellow each weekend until the end of the Russian invasion.