Undergrads travel to Mexico to explore the deeper meaning of business and community
Mendoza's Business Honors Program provides undergraduate students with a rigorous, specialized study while offering unique opportunities, such as travel to Guadalajara for an immersive learning experience with top Mexican business scholars.
Notre Dame Pre-College in Italy: High School Students Immersed in the Eternal City
A group of 18 rising high school students just returned home after spending two weeks abroad with Notre Dame Pre-College in Italy.
Students connected with the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway…
Learning East Asian Ways of Life in London
When Notre Dame students apply to spend a semester in London, they are often anticipating the traditional London experience. They can’t wait to take photos with red post boxes and black cabs. They are excited to look out for members of the Royal Family near Buckingham Palace, or to visit...
Anthropology major embarks on effort to preserve and document her native Nigerian language, spoken by only 200,000 people
Godiya Simon came to Notre Dame needing to learn a language in order to be successful. Now, she’s headed to an elite graduate program in part because of her work to ensure another language never goes extinct. Simon didn’t know just how rare her native language of Kibaku was until a...
Notre Dame signs agreement with St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
The agreement was made official during a virtual signing ceremony organized by Notre Dame International on Monday (March 28) and was signed by Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and Catherine Arnold, master of St. Edmund’s College. St. Edmund’s College, founded in 1896, is the only college in...
Connected during quarantine: Students flourish in Notre Dame’s exchange programs in Hong Kong
This spring, two University of Notre Dame students arrived in Hong Kong to start their semester abroad. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, Notre Dame undergraduates participated in exchange programs with the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.…
NDI features stories of women who empower in the world of sustainability
"Sustainability is a way of understanding the world, recognizing the role each one of us plays in it as a part of an interconnected and complex web of societies, economies, and ecosystems," says Sofía Del Valle, a 2019 master of global affairs graduate in the Keough School of Global Affairs…
Alumni Profile: Irla Atanda ’20, Special Assistant to the President of Refugees International, on Her Global Education
Irla Atanda '20 with her mother and brother, who dropped Atanda off at the start of her first year. Irla Atanda ’20 may have come to Notre Dame with the intention of being a doctor, but as she got into the coursework, she realized that what she really wanted was...
An international student’s perspective: Marching in the Band of the Fighting Irish
Beatriz de Campos Silva is a sophomore from São Paulo, Brazil, majoring in Physics in Medicine with a minor in the Glynn Family Honors Program. She plays the piccolo in the Band of the Fighting Irish. She is also part of the Building Bridges Mentoring Program, STEMentorship program, ISAB’s Mentorship...
Students expand international learning through the Virtual Global Professional Experience
“You’re not going to get a better internship than this program,”says Notre Dame sophomore Fritz Holzgrefe. In a time when internships are scarce, and international opportunities are even scarcer, a statement like this one stands out. Holzgrefe, one of the 128 students who participated in Notre Dame’s Virtual Global Professional...
“Whatever you start, you finish:” Jerome Bettis re-enrolls at Notre Dame, takes virtual course in Rome
In 2020, Jerome Bettis re-enrolled at the University of Notre Dame to complete his bachelor’s degree in business. He saw the global pandemic as an opportunity to reconnect with Notre Dame and finish what he started nearly 30 years ago. As a father of two, Bettis also wanted to serve...
International Ambassadors welcome students, help them navigate life on campus
Starting college is bound to cause high levels of stress and excitement for any incoming student. But for international students spending their entire college experience abroad, the transition creates its own set of questions and possibilities.
To help these students, Notre Dame International created the International Ambassadors…
What Are the Global Gateways? Notre Dame’s Global Presence Offers Resources for Undergraduate Students
Growing up in Austin, TX, with the city’s large Spanish-speaking population, Natalie Reysa ‘21 developed a passion for learning the Spanish language.
As a Notre Dame student, she majored in political science…
Biometric security: Defending against attacks in iris recognition
Adam Czajka, assistant professor, College of Engineering It’s a scene straight out of a spy movie: pressing one’s eye right up to a scanner to gain exclusive access to a high-security location. “It’s a very Hollywood-ish thing, but my team has demonstrated in the past that dead eyes can be...
Women Who Empower: Regina Castro Traulsen
This story is part of Notre Dame International's series titled "Women Who Empower."
Born and raised in Mexico, Regina Castro Traulsen is the current General Director of the Mexican Supreme Court’s Human Rights Office.…
Women Who Empower: Estela Rojo
This story is part of Notre Dame International's series titled "Women Who Empower."
Don’t expect Estela Rojo to sit still, even through retirement.…
Hugo Flores: A panoramic view of the world
Hugo Flores, originally from Mexico, is receiving a Master of Global Affairs from the Keough School of Global Affairs. He shares his story as part of the International Student Reflection series from the class of 2021. I came to Notre Dame to learn more about society in all its dimensions....
Zahara Kagalwalla: I will remember
Zahara Kagalwalla, originally from Mumbai, India, is majoring in business analytics with a supplementary major in gender studies. She shares her story as part of the International Student Reflection series from the class of 2021. I remember watching my parent’s car disappear into the distance after they settled me into the...
Undergrad Administers Coronavirus Vaccines at Campus Clinics
Lucia Chang administers the first coronavirus shot to a fellow ND student at a vaccine clinic in April. Yu-Tzu Lucia Chang, a junior from Taiwan, is a trained emergency medical technician—a certification that came in useful during spring semester 2021. When Notre Dame scheduled its vaccination clinics for students, Chang...
A Passion for Development
Acompañar.
The Spanish word for “accompaniment” has come to define International Scholar Emily Meara 21’s involvement with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. In the United States, “accompaniment” typically refers to a musical arrangement. But in Spanish, it’s more often used to mean working closely with or helping someone.…
First Chilean Fulbright Studies Home Country's 'New Normal'
Chile – once among the most prosperous and stable countries in Latin America – is at an inflection point. In October 2019, protests over a hike in public transit fares turned violent and escalated into mass demonstrations about deeper social and economic problems within the country: stagnant wages, the rising...
Women Who Empower: Beth Kellenberg Klein ‘10
This story is part of Notre Dame International's series titled "Women Who Empower." Though she loved her time at Notre Dame, Beth Kellenberg Klein, then Neiman (‘10), remembers feeling a little stifled on campus. She was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. She attended college with some of...
Puebla alumni series: Megan Finneran ‘13
Megan Finneran is a 2013 Notre Dame graduate who majored in pre-professional studies and Spanish. She received her masters in global health from Notre Dame. Finneran is currently in her third year of a neurosurgery residency at BroMenn Medical Center in Bloomington, IL. She reflects on her time abroad in...
Study Abroad offers the next best thing during pandemic
Walter Osterberger and Stella Cho participated in the virtual Global Professional Experience during the Winter Session.
The pandemic may have immobilized Notre Dame’s study abroad programs for three semesters, but it couldn’t keep juniors…
Putting Dignity into Practice
How can international development groups promote human dignity in their work – and why should they try? A new volume from the Kellogg Institute Book Series on Democracy and Development examines the meaning of “human dignity” – a term that encompasses human flourishing beyond the elimination of poverty – and asks...
Notre Dame students learn what it means to be a global citizen through virtual internships
Team meeting at C3 In the last few months, working from home has become normal for office workers across the globe. When Notre Dame students enrolled in the Fall 2020 London Program were told that the program would not be going ahead, they were not surprised, but no less disappointed. However, there was...
A Semester, Interrupted: International Student Stories
As the pandemic first exploded in the United States in early spring, international students had to make a tough call: Should they find a way to stay on campus or return to their home countries to wait for the situation to resolve itself? The crisis intensified in many locations across...
How an experience abroad in high school taught Kate Cooper to say “yes” to more opportunities as an undergraduate
For six years, Notre Dame Pre-College has been sending high school students abroad to Rome, Italy and Ireland for two weeks in the summer to experience the Notre Dame global community. For many, this sparks a love for travel that will follow them into their undergraduate careers (and beyond!).…
Puebla alumni series: Jesse Hernandez ‘11
Hernandez is pictured in Puebla at a local hospital during his time abroad.
Jesse Hernandez is a 2011 Notre Dame graduate and majored in Arts & Letters pre-professional studies and psychology. Hernandez writes about his time in Puebla and how it led to a career in medicine.…
Beauty in the aging hands of strife: A reflection on “Every Street”
Andrews in Vienna during fall break 2019 Joe Andrews studied in London during fall 2019, and he spent fall break visiting some of Europe's capital cities. Like most students, he was struck by the beauty and history he encountered on his trip, but he also noticed the poverty and deprivation that often...