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Anthropology Major Alexis Palá Awarded Fulbright for Research in Chile

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: National Fellowships, General News, Undergraduate News, Research, Centers and Institutes, and Internationalism

p(image-right). !/assets/164354/alexis_pala_icon_new.jpg(Alexis Pala icon)! Anthropology major Alexis Palá has spent the past three years studying opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities in Chile and Spain. Next year, she will continue her research in Chile with support from a Fulbright U.S. Student Award.

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Glynn Scholar Abby Davis Focuses on Global Migration

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, Research, and Internationalism

p(image-right). !/assets/162764/abby_davis_icon.jpg(Abby Davis)! From Latvia to Chile, international experiences have become part of daily life for junior Abby Davis, a political science major in Notre Dame’s Glynn Family Honors Program. Davis has focused her studies on global migration and the politics of language—topics she hopes to explore further in a senior thesis project and eventually in graduate school.

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Senior Alex Genord Builds on Experiences Abroad

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, and Internationalism

p(image-right). !/assets/160292/alex_genord_icon.jpg(Alexandra Genord)! An internship at the Vatican. A year abroad at the University of Oxford. A senior thesis on extremist recruiting in the U.S. and the Islamic state. Senior political science and economics major Alex Genord said that each of these academic feats has been made possible by her participation in the University of Notre Dame’s Glynn Family Honors Program.

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SLA Program Offers Immersive Language and Cultural Experience

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: Graduate Students, General News, Undergraduate News, Research, Centers and Institutes, and Internationalism

p(image-right). !/assets/158738/jacob_kildoo_oman_icon.jpg(Jacob Kildoo)! In summer 2015, more than 60 College of Arts and Letters students will participate in language and cultural immersion programs in 20 countries around the world, thanks to funding from Notre Dame’s Summer Language Abroad (SLA) Program. “The whole experience is truly a fantastic way to learn,” said senior Jacob Kildoo who spent summer 2014 in Muscat, Oman.

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Political Science Student Interns with Supreme Court

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: General News and Undergraduate News

p(image-right). !/assets/151711/veronica_guerrero_icon.jpg(Veronica Guerrero)! As a judicial intern at the Supreme Court of the United States last summer, Notre Dame senior Veronica Guerrero got a behind-the-scenes look at one of the nation’s most influential institutions. Guerrero, a political science and Chinese major in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters, worked in the Office of the Counselor to the Chief Justice, where she helped with tasks such as giving lectures within the courtroom, welcoming prestigious international visitors to the court, and creating a daily news summary for the court.

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Four College of Arts and Letters Graduate Students Receive NSF Fellowships

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: Graduate Students, General News, Research, and Centers and Institutes

p(image-right). !/assets/146944/nsf_icon.jpg(National Science Foundation (NSF))! Eleven Notre Dame graduate students—including four from the University’s College of Arts and Letters—have been awarded graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the 2014-15 academic year. Katie Condit, Danielle Fulmer, and Nicole Perez from the Department of Sociology and Charlotte Cunningham from the Department of Psychology were among this year’s winners.

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Junior Samantha Lessen Awarded 2014 Monteverdi Prize

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, Research, Alumni, and Internationalism

Samantha Lessen, a junior in the College of Arts and Letters, has been awarded the second annual Monteverdi Prize through Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies (PLS). The Monteverdi Prize, a scholarship created by the Cioffi family for PLS juniors, will provide Lessen with funding to conduct research this summer for her senior thesis. As part of the prize, she will live at Monteverdi Tuscany, a hotel and center for the liberal arts in Italy, founded by PLS alumnus Michael Cioffi ’75.

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Notre Dame Students Retrace Medieval Pilgrimage in Spain

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, Research, Centers and Institutes, Internationalism, Catholicism, Arts, and Faculty News

Fourteen Notre Dame students, along with two of their professors from the College of Arts and Letters, traveled to northern Spain over fall break to experience the Camino de Santiago—one of the most important Christian pilgrimages during medieval times. History Professor Olivia Remie Constable, the director of the University’s Medieval Institute, and Danielle Joyner, an assistant professor of medieval art history, say it was an academic adventure they won’t soon forget. And their students agree.

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Journalism Professor Brings Media Trends into Classroom

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: General News and Undergraduate News

In his class, The Future of News, Notre Dame visiting assistant professor Josh Roiland not only talks about the direction journalism is now heading, but he also equips students with the practical tools to flourish within the changing profession. “It’s kind of two different classes in one,” says Roiland, who teaches in the College of Arts and Letters’ Department of American Studies. “We study the economic and technological changes that have hit the journalism industry in the last decade and how they have completely transformed the profession. But then we also do the practical aspect and do the future of news, which is going to be multimedia journalism.”

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Glynn Honors Student Finds Passion in Education

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: General News and Undergraduate News

From a very young age, junior Marielle Hampe loved to read books. Her very first memory, in fact, is of her mother reading her a story on the porch of their house. It wasn’t until after her first year in the Notre Dame’s Glynn Family Honors Program, however, that she realized she wanted to make a career out of reading and writing—and teaching others to do the same.

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Economics Major Conducts Anti-Poverty Research

Author: Jonathan Warren

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, Research, Internationalism, and Catholicism

When senior economics major and peace studies major Melissa Maggart began looking for a summer internship last year, she sought to combine her academic interests with her personal desire to help alleviate poverty. Her search brought her to a new program at the University of Notre Dame—the Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO).

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