Graduate Student Resources

This page is designed to give current graduate students quick, easy access to helpful resources across the College and University.

You can also find information about indivdual graduate programs on the websites of the College’s academic departments.

Are you a prospective student? Explore the links below or go to the Graduate School for more information.

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Academic Resources
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Campus Life
Health, Wellness
Research Resources
Technology, Printing Resources

Academic Resources

Calendars

Campus Life

Health, Wellness

Research Resources

  • Center for Creative Computing – faculty-student team grants for digital-based research projects in the areas of art, design, filmmaking and video production, multimedia projects, theatre arts, music, and sound.
  • Graduate Student Professional Development Awards – These ISLA grants assist graduate students with academic-related expenses associated with presenting research at a conference, attending professional meetings, or acquiring language- or other skills-training.
  • Graduate Student Research Awards – The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts offers these awards to assist graduate students with expenses related to dissertation or thesis research that their departments are unable to meet.
  • Graduate Teaching Fellowships – funding for Ph.D. candidates in the College of Arts and Letters to teach a First Year Composition course and one lower level course in their department
  • Kaneb Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program – an opportunity for four advanced graduate students of the College of Arts and Letters to have a mentored experience of research and teaching at a prominent liberal arts college or research university
  • Richard and Peggy Notebaert Premier Fellowship – up to six years of support, inlcuding full tuition, health insurance, and a stipend that is among the most generous in the country
  • Summer Language Grants – funding from the Center for the Study of Language and Cultures for summer foreign language study abroad or, when appropriate, intensive domestic language study

Technology, Printing Resources


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  • History Major Explores Work of Missionaries in Colonial Peru

    It is widely known that Spanish missionaries played a significant role in introducing Catholicism to the peoples of the Andes throughout the colonial period. Notre Dame senior history major Joseph VanderZee traveled to archives in Lima and Rome to dig a little deeper and find out what these early missionaries thought of the indigenous population—and how their attitudes affected the development of the Peruvian Church. Read More >

  • Theologian Gary Anderson Elected to American Academy of Jewish Research

    Gary Anderson, Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research (AAJR). The AAJR is the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America, and fellows are nominated and elected by their peers. The group has approximately 100 members in the United States—and Anderson is one of a select few who are not Jewish. Read More >

  • Solving a Fascinating Puzzle

    Robert Goulding, an associate professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, was recently awarded a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to support a research project that combines mathematics, philosophy, and Renaissance science. Goulding, who also teaches in the History and Philosophy of Science graduate program, says his work focuses on English scientist and mathematician Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), whom he calls “a really unusual figure” in intellectual history. Read More >

  • Microfinance Yields Mixed Results in Thailand, Economist Joseph Kaboski Finds

    Large-scale microfinance programs are widely used as a tool to fight poverty in developing countries, but a recent study by University of Notre Dame economist Joseph Kaboski and MIT colleague Robert Townsend suggests that microfinancing can have varying results for participants and may not be the most cost-effective use of funds for many situations. The study was published in a recent issue of Econometrica. Kaboski and Townsend used the Thai Million Baht Village Fund, one of the largest government microfinance initiatives of its kind, to evaluate and understand the benefits and disadvantages of microfinance interventions. Read More >