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Women in Engineering group experience Ireland’s sustainable engineering solutions

While others may have been catching a tan on the Florida keys, 12 undergraduate students in the Society of Women Engineers, led by Maria Warren, assistant teaching professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, headed to Ireland’s slightly more unpredictable climate over their spring break for a week of international, immersive experiential...
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Junior Kendra Lyimo named 2023 Beinecke Scholar

As a Beinecke Scholar, Lyimo plans to study art and art history with the goal of advancing scholarship around East African art and its ideas and expanding access to East African art through teaching and outreach.
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From Dublin to London to D.C., American studies major pursues research, internships, and coursework focused on improving affordable housing for urban communities

In just the past year, Notre Dame junior Jasmine Mitchell has studied in Dublin, London, and Washington, D.C. In each location she’s traveled to, Mitchell has studied how localities are addressing affordable housing, and she hopes to eventually bring innovative solutions back to urban communities in the United States. Because no...
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The beauty of saying 'yes': A student reflects on her time in Dublin

Megan is pictured in front of Blarney Castle Megan Hughes, a junior from Tampa, Florida, is studying Business Analytics with a minor in Sustainability. Megan studied at Dublin City University in the fall of 2022, though her decision to go abroad was not as straightforward as it is for most...
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Trailer: East and West: Notre Dame in Ireland

  For a University with Ireland in its DNA, a presence on the Emerald Isle is only natural. But Notre Dame doesn't just have a presence in Ireland, it has a relationship with it. In East and West: Notre Dame in Ireland, we take a look at how the University...
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Deep Dive into Foreign Service: An Internship with Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs

Connor Patrick ’23 stands outside the Irish Taoiseach’s (prime minister’s) building. Connor Patrick ‘23 is a history major with minors in politics, philosophy, and economics; real estate; Portuguese and Brazilian studies; and liturgical music ministry. In the summer of 2022, he received support from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies…
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A St. Brigid’s Day reflection

Today, on a sunny morning with a blue sky over Dublin, we celebrate Lá Féile Bríde – St Brigid’s day – traditionally, the first day of spring in Ireland. The Celtic calendar stressed four seasonal hinges: Imbolc [St Brigid’s], Bealtaine [May Eve], St Johns day [I June], and Samhain [Halloween]. All were liminal moments,...
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Understanding Europe, in Ireland

Ciara Fitter ’23 is a major in political science and global affairs with a concentration in transnational European studies. In summer 2022, she received a grant to participate in the Notre Dame Irish Internship Program, which is supported by the Nanovic Institute and facilitated by the Notre Dame Dublin Global...
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Notre Dame students in Ireland celebrate Pancake Tuesday

Pancakes might be a weekly, or even daily, staple for some red-blooded Americans (or perhaps better yet, golden-brown-maple-syrup-blooded). In Ireland, the consumption of pancakes is more of a delicacy, a once-yearly tradition on Shrove Tuesday, colloquially, “Pancake Tuesday.”…
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NDI features stories of women who empower in the world of sustainability

"Sustainability is a way of understanding the world, recognizing the role each one of us plays in it as a part of an interconnected and complex web of societies, economies, and ecosystems," says Sofía Del Valle, a 2019 master of global affairs graduate in the Keough School of Global Affairs…
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Shadow, service, and community: A weekend at Barretstown

Ryan McNelis ‘21 currently serves as the campus minister at the Dublin Global Gateway. He writes about his experience abroad in Dublin as an undergraduate and how a call to service led him back to Ireland. Since studying in Dublin during the fall of my junior year and joining O’Connell House...
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ND-GAIN and Dublin Global Gateway partner to build climate change inventory of Ireland

Even the most prepared countries need to focus more on climate change, according to the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Country Index. The annual study—which measures how 181 countries compare on vulnerability to climate impacts and readiness to successfully implement adaptation solutions—shows that top-ranked nations such as...
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Digital civility: Ireland, the EU and the regulation of social media

Illustrator: Paweł Kuczyński; used with permissions of Visegrad Insight. The attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 caught most people completely off guard, but a group of five undergraduate researchers at the University of Notre Dame had a more nuanced perspective on the event. They were halfway through a...
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A Semester, Interrupted: International Student Stories

As the pandemic first exploded in the United States in early spring, international students had to make a tough call: Should they find a way to stay on campus or return to their home countries to wait for the situation to resolve itself? The crisis intensified in many locations across...
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Meet Jaime Signoracci: NDI's travel security and risk management expert

In June 2014, a plane landed hard at the Kabul International Airport. It was after dark and the flight crew needed medical attention. The plane suffered damage, so the crew needed to stay overnight in Kabul until another aircraft could be flown in. Jaime Signoracci, who was only in her...
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How a CBL placement expanded Emily Brigham’s perspective in Ireland

Brigham and Habiba at their last tutoring session Emily Brigham, a junior from Rhode Island, majors in psychology and minors in education, schooling and society, and data science. She spent the 2019 fall semester studying at UCD in Dublin, where she volunteered with Youth and Educational Services for Refugees and...
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Students experience a traditional Irish Halloween

Staff at the Dublin Global Gateway dress up every year for the traditional Irish Halloween celebrations. It is a little known fact beyond the craggy shoreline of the Emerald Isle that the North American holiday Halloween originates from an ancient Celtic pagan celebration—Samhain (an Irish word pronounced “sow-win”). Samhain, celebrated October...