Notre Dame hosts business students from top-ranked Chinese university

Published: January 28, 2015

Amanda Skofstad

The University of Notre Dame expanded its reach in global education with the arrival of 35 students from Tsinghua University, a top-ranked school located in Beijing. The students, who arrived on campus Saturday (Jan. 24), are part of the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University. During the intensive two-week program offered by the Mendoza College of Business in coordination...

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Notre Dame to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day with prayer service, community events

Published: January 15, 2015

Notre Dame News

Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame, will preside at a prayer service to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Jan. 19 (Monday) in the rotunda of the Main Building. The public is invited to participate in the prayer service and the reception that will immediately follow.

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Nora Besansky-led studies featured on the cover of Science

Published: January 02, 2015

William G. Gilroy

Two studies led by Nora Besansky, O’Hara Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the University’s Eck Institute for Global Health, which resulted in the sequencing the genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquito species from around the world, are featured on the cover of today’s (Jan. 2) edition of the prestigious journal Science.

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$3 million gift from Susan Scribner Mirza to establish Notre Dame’s first endowed professorship in Islamic studies

Published: January 21, 2015

Dennis Brown

The University of Notre Dame announced Wednesday (Jan. 21) its first ever endowed professorship in Islamic studies, established with a $3 million gift from alumna Susan Scribner Mirza of Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Video: Chinese professor on applying pedagogical theories to language instruction

Published: January 12, 2015

Todd Boruff

“If you teach a student to learn to swim, you must put the student in the water. The same philosophy we can apply to the classroom teaching,” said Yongping Zhu, associate professor and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

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Faculty and staff to minority students: You belong here

Published: January 20, 2015

The Observer

This Letter to the Editor appeared in the January 20, 2015, edition of The Observer, the student-run, daily print and online newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. 

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Hey, we just launched a school of global affairs. Now what?

Published: January 07, 2015

John Nagy ’00M.A.

Notre Dame carves out a holistic, religion-savvy niche with the creation of its first new school in 93 years.

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