Alumni Association establishes advisory board to guide programming for young graduates

Published: July 24, 2018

Bill Gangluff, Alumni Association

The Young ND Board will represent the interests of and steer programming for Notre Dame graduates who are 32 and younger. The new 16-person body will meet on campus twice a year and hold regular digital meetings.

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Article examines mental health of internally displaced persons

Published: July 10, 2018

Luis Ruuska

An article, co-authored by a researcher at the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development, titled “Identifying Mental Health Problems and Idioms of Distress Among Older Adult Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia,” has been published in Social Science & Medicine.

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Notre Dame community in India celebrated with special event

Published: July 05, 2018

Colleen Wilcox

The Mumbai Global Center event was held to celebrate the Notre Dame community in India and welcome newly admitted students. The event is in its third year and helps showcase the growth of Notre Dame’s undergraduate and high school engagements in India.

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Notre Dame, Girls Who Invest partner to advance women in finance

Published: July 17, 2018

Erin Blasko

In addition to gender diversity, Girls Who Invest promotes social, racial and ethnic diversity. About 20 percent of this year’s class are historically underrepresented minorities, and one quarter of the women come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Spanish professor wins book prize for her work on Latin American female travel writers

Published: July 10, 2018

Carrie Gates

Vanesa Miseres, an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, has won a prize from the International Institute of Latin American Literature for her book Mujeres en tránsito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica. Mujeres en tránsito examines four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the 19th century — Flora Tristan, Juana...

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Sara Bea Learning Center facilitates equal access to Notre Dame experience

Published: July 02, 2018

Ellen Crowe Finan

A formal process to provide accommodations for students with impairments began in 1995 when Scott Howland was hired to create a centralized office of disability services. The first offices were housed in Badin Hall.

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How the liberal arts helped a first-generation American find her voice

Published: July 11, 2018

Carrie Gates

Sara Abdel-Rahim ’17 found her voice in the liberal arts — and she amplified it through research, internships, and leadership roles on campus. As a first-generation American citizen, the political science and Arabic major wants to battle against cultural and religious discrimination.

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Students learn about immigration through service work in Texas border town

Published: July 09, 2018

Andy Fuller

Economics major Francis Brockman and political science major Daniel Rottenborn, are working for Annunciation House, a Catholic organization that gives shelter to refugees in El Paso. It’s here that asylum-seeking migrants asylum-seeking migrants spend a few days in between their release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and continuing their journey to a sponsor somewhere in the U.S.

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