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Alumni Spotlight: Anselme Mucunguzi '18 is Building a World-Class E-Commerce Support Service

Published: February 19, 2021

Even as he was completing a master’s degree in physical chemistry at the University of Notre Dame in 2017, Anselme Mucunguzi had decided that his future was in technology entrepreneurship rather than science and engineering. ESTEEM gave him the combination of business acumen and computer programming skills that empowered him for the new career.

Alumni Spotlight: Janaeé Wallace '16 is Investing in STEM Founders

Published: December 03, 2020

Gene Stowe

Janaeé Wallace knew she wanted to help finance STEM-based businesses so they could grow the economy in The Bahama Islands and across the Caribbean before she knew what incubators and venture capitalists…

Alex Chávez: Parallels among Latino, Mideast and North African migration

Published: November 19, 2015

Gene Stowe

Alex E. Chávez, an assistant professor in anthropology and Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), sees parallels between longstanding Latino migration to the United States and the current crisis of Middle Eastern and North African migration to Europe. He was part of a group of ILS faculty fellows who met with Italian scholars to discuss immigration at Notre...

The Minority Engineering Program

Published: May 01, 2015

Gene Stowe

Memphis native Leo McWilliams came to Notre Dame as an undergraduate in the late 1970s, earning a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1981, a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1982, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1985. That was before the Minority Engineering Program (MEP) started on campus in 1987, although he participated in the National Society...

University to commemorate 1994 Rwanda genocide

Published: March 01, 2014

Gene Stowe

The University’s commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Rwanda genocide against the Tutsi will include a Mass commemorating the deaths of four Congregation of Holy Cross members during the slaughter.

Alumni Spotlight: Whitney Bouey '19 is a Product Manager at SRAM

Published: February 05, 2021

Gene Stowe

New Orleans native Whitney Bouey had never left Louisiana until her mentor during her time at Louisiana State University, a Notre Dame alum, recommended ESTEEM.

Heidelberg exchange program promotes research training

Published: March 17, 2016

Gene Stowe

Through Notre Dame International, the University of Notre Dame and Heidelberg University have established a collaboration in which students from Germany have taken classes and conducted research at Notre Dame since August, part of an ongoing, broad collaboration with Heidelberg University that was established in 2104. Alex Dimmling and Lennart Schleper, who both finished their bachelor’s degrees at Heidelberg last...

Maurizio Albahari: How do liberal democracies deal with newcomers?

Published: November 19, 2015

Gene Stowe

For Maurizio Albahari, an assistant professor of anthropology and native of Italy, this year’s refugee crisis in Europe is a new layer on an old story of deadly immigration efforts across the Mediterranean Sea from Africa and Asia to Europe. The experience also bears considerable analogs with American migration issues, Albahari says, although especially in the Mediterranean situation, a fence...

Early survey results indicate that LF will be eliminated in Haiti

Published: March 12, 2015

Gene Stowe

Preliminary testing of more than 850 schoolchildren in the Haitian town of Saut-d’Eau has shown only one child to be infected with the parasite that causes lymphatic filariasis (LF), a milestone in efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease from the island. The results, involving children from 38 schools in the community of 35,000 people 50 miles north of Port-au-Prince, mean...

Alumni Spotlight: Nancy Nguyen '17 is a Product Manager in a Drone Technology Startup

Published: January 22, 2021

Gene Stowe

Boston native Nancy Nguyen, who earned a degree in chemistry at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire, was considering an offer for a lab chemist job at Massachusetts General Hospital when a professor urged her to consider Notre Dame's ESTEEM graduate program. After a visit with David Murphy, Executive Director of Student Entrepreneurship and the ESTEEM program, she agreed.

Science alumnus transforms developing countries’ prison medical care

Published: March 14, 2016

Gene Stowe

Notre Dame alumnus Dr. John May ND '84 founded Healing through Walls in 2001 in Haiti, where the organization now has 50 medical professional employees working in prisons. Healing through Walls also operates in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Malawi and the Congo and consults across the Caribbean and Africa.

Karen Richman: ‘We are a nation of immigrants’

Published: November 19, 2015

Gene Stowe

Karen Richman, director of undergraduate studies for the Institute for Latino Studies, was one of the first scholars who saw both sides of immigration as it created transnational interdependent communities in the late 20th century. Her long-view historical perspective sees the current U.S. immigration debate as another in a long series of resistance followed by acceptance as newcomers contribute to...

New antibiotic holds promise against antibiotic-resistant infections

Published: February 13, 2015

Gene Stowe

Estimates of deaths from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the United States range upwards of 19,000 annually. Around 1960, when Staphylococcus aureus developed resistance to first-generation penicillin, methicillin and other second-generation beta-lactam antibiotics were adopted to fight the illness. The modern variants of the bacterium have developed resistance to the four drugs now used to treat it. A team of...