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Thirty-two winners of the Internal Grants Program Awards were announced today by Notre Dame Research. The grants were awarded to faculty from five colleges and schools in three categories: Faculty Research Support (Initiation), Faculty Research Support (Regular), and Equipment Restoration and Renewal.

More than 40 academics and industry experts will gather at the London Global Gateway May 1-3, 2015, to analyze behavioral influences on trust, inequality, and ethics and to share ideas on what precipitates unethical behavior in individuals, organizations, and society—and the consequences that follow in its wake.

The University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health is partnering with the Peace Corps to offer financial help to returned Peace Corps Volunteers. The joint program will provide an annual scholarship of $12,000 to qualifying returned Peace Corps Volunteer accepted into the Master of Science in Global Health...

United States Secretary of State John Kerry addresses attendees of Foro de Rectores on Thursday, April 9, 2015 Notre Dame was among the universities invited to the inaugural Foro de Rectores de las Americas (Forum of University Presidents) on April 9-11, 2015, in Panama City. President John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.,...

“I’m thrilled to be a part of this project and to be in Dublin. It’s an amazing opportunity,” said Katie Brennan, a sociology major in the College of Arts and Letters. During the summer of 2014, Brennan and three other University of Notre Dame undergraduates interned on the production of...

The sixth annual Global History Seminar Series took place at the London Global Gateway from February to April 2015.  Sponsored by the University of Notre Dame and the Institute of Historical Research, in collaboration with the University of Oxford Centre for Global History, the series brings together experts in world...

In January 2015, the Notre Dame QuarkNet Center received its second Luksic grant from Notre Dame International to enhance the Masterclass Institutes Collaborating in the Americas (MICA), a collaboration between Pontifica Universidad Católica (PUC) in Santiago, Chile, and the University of Notre Dame particle physics education and outreach programs. Adam...

On April 1, 2015, London Global Gateway visiting faculty member Richard E. Donnelly (University of Notre Dame) hosted a symposium entitled Preserving Iconic Theatre Costumes: The How and The Why, just one outcome of a 10-year research project on scenic and costume designer Desmond Heeley.  The Nanovic Institute for European Studies,...

We are pleased to announce that the Notre Dame Club of United Kingdom-London received two awards yesterday for commitment and outreach.   The Club has been recognized as a Program of Excellence …

  On March 20, 2015, the U.S. – Japan Bridging Foundation and the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Caroline B. Kennedy, invited a small group of university officials from Japan and the United States for a one-day conference.

As announced on February 25, 2015, J. Nicholas Entrikin, Associate Provost and Vice President for Internationalization, and Jonathan Noble, Assistant Provost for Internationalization, Asia, led a faculty delegation to China March 9–15, 2015.

The University of Notre Dame will play a major role in the international celebration of the centenary of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, which was announced Tuesday (March 31) in Dublin by Taoiseach Enda Kenny. A documentary television series, “1916: The Irish Rebellion,” produced by Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish...