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...
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.
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...
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...
Women Who Empower: Manuela Moreno
This story is part of Notre Dame International's series titled "Women Who Empower.…
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...
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…
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,...
St. Kevin and the Blackbird: A Reflection by Dublin Campus Minister Ryan McNelis
Ryan McNelis graduated from Notre Dame in 2021 with a BA in economics and minors in theology and data science. After graduation, he moved to Ireland to serve as the campus minister to hundreds of Notre Dame students studying in Dublin for the 2021 - 2022 academic year. In that...
Profile: Abigail Keaney '24, a student of the interwoven history and politics of Ireland, Britain, and the United States
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https://politicalscience.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/profile-abigail-keaney-24-studying-the-interwoven-history-and-politics-of-ireland-britain-and-the-united-states/…
A brand new major and four internships on three continents helped senior Grace Connors prepare for a career blending computer science and peace studies
Grace Connors had long been interested in computer science, but she wasn’t sure if she could major in it when she first started at Notre Dame. Then, the College of Arts & Letters launched a new major that would allow her to develop her expertise in computer science while also expanding...
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...
Ulysses Goes Global: Notre Dame celebrates 100 years of James Joyce’s masterpiece
Kevin Whelan is standing on a street corner of Merrion Square, just across the park from Notre Dame’s Dublin Global Gateway where he is the director, spinning a story about how James Joyce haunts every part of Dublin, if you know where to look.
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.”…
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…
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...
Students expand international learning through the Virtual Global Professional Experience
“You’re not going to get a better internship than this program,”says Notre Dame sophomore Fritz Holzgrefe. In a time when internships are scarce, and international opportunities are even scarcer, a statement like this one stands out. Holzgrefe, one of the 128 students who participated in Notre Dame’s Virtual Global Professional...
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...
What Are the Global Gateways? Notre Dame’s Global Presence Offers Resources for Undergraduate Students
Growing up in Austin, TX, with the city’s large Spanish-speaking population, Natalie Reysa ‘21 developed a passion for learning the Spanish language.
As a Notre Dame student, she majored in political science…
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...
Women Who Empower: Clare Cooney '12
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Women Who Empower: Beth Kellenberg Klein ‘10
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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...
An intersection of art and activism: A student’s perspective on her time abroad in Dublin
Margaret Burns 21’, originally from San Antonio, Texas, is an art history major and is part of the Glynn Family Honors Program. She’s currently involved with the Snite Museum of Art, ND Votes, and a staff member at Pasquerilla East Hall on campus. In the fall of 2019, Burns studied...
The Inspiration Place: Writers and artists find space to create at Ireland's Kylemore Abbey
You want to take it all in, but it’s impossible. Should you focus on the emerald mountain backdrop topped with clouds floating like puffy jelly beans? Or the foreground of willowy reeds swaying on a placid lake? Inevitably your eyes are drawn instead to the castle, a fairy-tale version so...
Immersed from afar: Canceled study abroad programs got creative to keep students connected
An Irish scone bake-off went viral. A TikTok challenge inspired kicking toilet paper like a soccer ball. An assignment to develop a literary walking tour of London became a walking tour for people in quarantine. Eleanor the Chihuahua became an Instagram celebrity.…
The O’Connells, COVID, and computer apps: How a study abroad student made the most of her time in Ireland
At age ten, Irene Valdes Salazar’s aunt brought her a souvenir from a recent trip to Dublin, Ireland. “Look, there’s a street named after our family!” she remembers saying. She remembers putting the O’Connell Street fridge magnet up, finding it amusing, but not thinking too deeply about it at the...
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...
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...
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...