The Consortium of Catholic Universities inaugurates with conference at the Rome Gateway
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...
Catholic institutions collaborate to create the first online platform for academic events in Rome
Catforumroma.it is an online platform now accessible to all where academic events organized by participating Catholic institutions are made available to the public. This marks the first step in a wide-ranging cultural project aiming to promote collaboration between Catholic institutions in Rome through the organization of common initiatives, which, in turn,...
The Rome Global Gateway announces consortium with Stanford University and Princeton University
The Rome Global Gateway announces a consortium with Stanford University and Princeton University’s Humanities Council to support the Rome Seminar, a one-month funded summer course for graduate students held in the city. The Seminar introduces students to working with primary sources in Rome. Taught on-site in archives and libraries, graduate...
Rome Global Gateway receives new designation as Italian research institution
The Rome Global Gateway’s location is in the heart of Rome, just steps from the Colosseum
The University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway has been recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research…
The Inspired Leadership Initiative explores Rome
The Inspired Leadership Initiative is a one-year program for accomplished leaders who have finished their traditional careers and come to Notre Dame to discern their next path in life. This year, fourteen fellows are immersing themselves in the rich academic resources of the University, both at the main campus and...
Study abroad students in Rome volunteer at annual Pontifical Academy for Life conference
Chris Kreienkamp, Grace Schippers, Hannah Gillespie, Megan Welborn, and Conor Fitzpatrick in front of the Vatican after the conference
Seven students, studying abroad for the semester at the Rome Global Gateway, volunteered in February with the press office for the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV…
Maps of Rome: The Frutaz project
The Scientific Committee looking at the first map of modern Rome by Matteo Greuter, 1618 In 1962, Monsignor Amato Pietro Frutaz published Le Piante di Roma, three large folio volumes published by the Istituto di Studi Romani (Institute of Roman Studies), which served as a completion of a project begun in...
Catholic Education around the Globe
In mid-March, the Rome Global Gateway hosted the "Global Catholic Education and Integral Human Development Conference". This conference addressed a growing international need and expanding research interest in the under-explored arena of international Catholic education and integral human development. Scholars from the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies…
The ND Villa Opens the Gates to Open House Roma 2018
It’s 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Rome. The streets are still awakening, as people are chatting in front of a local bar and moms are running to do some grocery shopping after taking their kids to school. Emily Patton, a Rome International Scholar, and Diana Neacsu from the School...
Literature, History and Humanity: Reflecting on the Shoah in Italy through the Words of Primo Levi and the Jewish Community of Rome
It appears that a woman named Letizia, known to the neighborhood as Goggle-eyed Letizia, sounded the first alarm. [...] The voice she emits is distracted, irritated, and detached from her words. Toward 5 A. M. she was heard shouting, "Oh God, i mammoni."…
Gaelic Football in Italy? Why not!
Gaelic Football is a sport originally from Ireland with unique rules: at first sight a sort of mix between football, rugby and basketball, it is played with hands and feet and a round ball on an outdoor court with the goal of scoring a goal or a point between the high...
Inspired Leadership Initiative gets its Inspiration from Rome
On February 2018, the Rome Global Gateway hosted a group meeting from the Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI), a one-year Notre Dame program to help accomplished individuals who have completed their traditional career discern optimal paths to leverage their talents, experience and relationships as they pivot to a new mission. The Inspired Leadership...
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to fund Rome Seminar 2018
Picture from Biblioteca Casanatense
Prof. Heather Hyde Minor, Academic Director of the Rome Global Gateway, has been awarded $20,000 from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, to support the Rome Seminar 2018…
Student Spotlight: Carleigh Burns
Carleigh Burns, a Neuroscience and Behavior major and Italian minor, is in Rome this Spring semester as part of the General Education Program. During her time in Rome she is living the the ND Villa, conducting an internship at UNESCO and shadowing Dr. Bilotta at Salvator Mundi International Hospital.…
Join our Team - Seeking Residence Rector in Rome
The University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway is seeking a Residence Rector for the Villa. Position Information Job Title Residence Rector (Rome Villa) Job Description CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR - Report to Director of Student Affairs at the Rome Global Gateway (RGG) and Office of Student Affairs on campus and liaise with...
Introducing the New Professors Teaching at the RGG in Spring 2018
Prof. Daria Borghese, teaching the All Roads Lead to Rome course Prof. Daria Borghese, an Art Historian teaching the All Roads Lead to Rome Course Daria Borghese has taught in Italy (The American University in Rome, The Richmond Rome Center, Assumption College and University of North Carolina) and in the U.S.A. (Boston College)...
The Circolo la Navicella, a student led academic society at the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway
The Rome Global Gateway launches the first student-led academic society open to all Notre Dame students studying in Rome and, for specific initiatives, to students enrolled in partner universities and academic institutions in the city as well. …
Rome Summer Program 2018 is Doubling
NDI Rome Summer 2017 group
For the third year in a row, this summer the Rome Global Gateway will host the Rome Summer Program, an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students in all fields of study to live and learn in one of the oldest and most international cities in the world.…
Remembering the ND Villa During Fascism - A testimony from Giacometta Limentani, a former student of the Jewish school
“Fra queste mura allievi e maestri ebrei italiani espulsi dalle scuole pubbliche dalle leggi razziali del 1938 trovarono accoglienza e crearono una scuola di eccezionale livello culturale e umano” (“Within these walls, Italian Jewish students and teachers, expelled from public schools by the racial laws of 1938, found a shelter...
Sydney Schneider searching for her family roots in Southern Italy
Sydney Schneider is a slender and gentle study abroad student from Laingsburg, Michigan. She is a Theology and History major at the University of Notre Dame, spending her Fall 2017 semester in Rome as part of the General Education program. She came to Rome to immerse herself in the culture,...
Opening and Blessing of the Villa in Rome
Light pink walls, an original "nasone" fountain, a beautiful garden with wood benches, 21 suite bedrooms, a large kitchen, dining area, laundry room, student activity center, and a roof top terrace are only a part of the newly restored Villa…
Nuova musica alla Chiesa Nuova: dramma e devozione sulle tracce di Anerio
I cinque nuovi oratori, composti da J.J. Wright sulla base delle opere di Giovanni Anerio verranno presentati per la prima volta Giovedì, 1 Giugno alle ore 21:00 presso la Chiesa Nuova. Il concerto, patrocinato dalla University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) e dal Pontificio Instituto di Musica Sacra (Roma), vedrà...
Students volunteer with refugees while studying abroad in Rome
In recent years Italy, along with many other European countries, has witnessed a large migration flow from countries struggling with poverty, violence, and war. We have all asked ourselves how such atrocities are possible. What makes refugees leave their homes? And, most of all, how can we help? During their...
Interning in Rome, a mind-opening experience
English major Andrea Vale and business student Felix Mayorga Alvarez decided to replace one of their courses with an internship during their study abroad year in Rome. Andrea is currently working at the Inter Press Service, a global news agency based in Rome and focusing exclusively on development in the Global...
Latin Paleography and Codicology Course in Collaboration with the BAV and AAR
In collaboration with Notre Dame, the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV), and the American Academy in Rome…
Interning in Rome for the U.S. Missions: a unique opportunity
The best way for students to be an active part of the city and use their linguistic and academic knowledge in a working environment is to do an internship, and what better place to start than one of the top three U.S. presences in Italy? As a matter of fact,...
Prof. Beihammer comes to Rome for a conference on King Peter I and to launch the new research project in collaboration with the Vatican Library
The conference Knighthood, Crusades, and Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean at the Time of King Peter I of Cyprus, which took place in the Rome Global Gateway on October 14-16, 2016, chose a fascinating figure in the history of the crusades as focal point in order to explore numerous facets of...
Rome Global Gateway Instagram and Facebook Photo Contest
RGG students, faculty, staff and fellows are asked to pull out their cameras — or smartphones or tablets — for the Rome Global Gateway Instagram and Facebook Photo Contest.
Snap a photo with your IostudioaRoma pin, share it on Facebook and/or Instagram, put #IostudioaRomaND…
Soundreef Internship Bolsters Rome Study Abroad Semester
Notre Dame’s vision for a robust study abroad experience includes rigorous engagement inside the classroom as well as outside of it, the latter often taking the form of internships.
Rome Study Abroad Students Encounter “People as People”
Students studying abroad in Rome during spring 2015 curated a photo exhibit entitled Negli Occhi dell'altro: Cinque americani raccontano le periferie di Roma (In the other's eyes, five Americans portray the Roman peripheries), which was organized in collaboration with Centro Culturale Roma at Il Cantuccio al Senato and opened May...