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).…
Experiencing joy: Department of Irish Language and Literature’s new 1-credit dance and tin-whistle courses give Notre Dame students the ‘keys to unlock Irish culture’
For 75 minutes every fall Tuesday afternoon, junior Grace Ryan steps, slides, marches, smiles, and laughs. The business analytics major who’s pursuing a career in aerospace was hesitant to sign up for an Irish dance course given her already busy schedule, but she eventually agreed to try it out. Now...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
Digital civility: Ireland, the EU and the regulation of social media
Illustrator: Paweł Kuczyński; used with permissions of Visegrad Insight.…
Women Who Empower: Clare Cooney '12
This story is part of Notre Dame International's series titled "Women…
Women Who Empower: Beth Kellenberg Klein ‘10
This story is part of Notre Dame International's series titled "Women…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Reclaiming the Faith: ND center in Ireland honors new saint
The entrance to the Newman University Church and the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason in Dublin. …
Fusing faith and action: Community Based Learning (CBL) celebrates 10 years in Ireland
CBL orientation day, Spring 2015, where participants meet their mentors and learn a little about the site where they will volunteer for the semester. 2019 marks ten years of collaboration…
How an internship in Ireland inspired a political science major to pursue a career in immigration law
Samantha Caesar 14’, originally from Baldwin, New York, is an immigration attorney currently living in Washington, D.C. As an associate in Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP’s Government Strategies…
Theology, studio art, and Irish studies come together in undergraduate’s creative research project on Ireland’s holy wells
Junior Anja Renkes will bring her three academic disciplines together in an international research experience this summer at the Dublin Global Gateway in the Irish Internship Program. She plans to create paintings of Ireland’s holy wells — small springs with devotional significance — that capture the area’s landscape as pure...
How a study abroad experience in Ireland led to innovative cancer research
Jenna Koenig’s first love was solving mysteries. She felt compelled to piece together leads and unravel complex puzzles. There was excitement behind the chase, as it ultimately led to discovery.…
For anthropology major Grace Garvey, exploring other disciplines is key to research success
Grace Garvey’s academic curiosity isn’t confined to one subject area. Her interest in human migration manifests in all sorts of different disciplines. She’s an anthropology major who is working closely with an American studies professor on her senior thesis. For her capstone project in the Hesburgh Program in Public Service,...
Traveling internationally for Notre Dame? There’s a registration for that.
The University urges faculty and staff traveling abroad for work to register the travel at ndi-tr.nd.edu. Registration is mandatory for undergraduate students traveling internationally on University-sponsored travel, and is strongly encouraged for graduate students,…
Notre Dame, international since the beginning
Since its inception, the University of Notre Dame has been a global school. It was founded by a French priest and brothers in 1842 with money raised in Europe, and as soon as 1850 was enrolling international students. In the decades that followed, more than 100 students would come…
A letter of thanks to Ireland
Khaoula Morchid is a Notre Dame alum (17’) and a former Naughton Fellow (18’) who completed her masters in Transport, Engineering, Policy and Planning at Trinty College Dublin. She is now working…
Naughton Fellow: Sean Keenan's Irish adventure
Sean at the Slieve League cliffs in Donegal, along Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way Notre Dame graduate Sean Kennan has spent the last year in Ireland’s capital pursuing a master's degree. We caught up with…
Seeing the world through Ireland
Madelyn Lugli (Class of '16) Madelyn Lugli (’16) participated in the Dublin Study Abroad Semester Program and the Irish Internship Program while at Notre Dame. Madelyn started her history Ph.D. coursework at…
A Rose by another name
Rose Pupel is a rising senior at Notre Dame, majoring in economics and minoring in Irish studies. Originally from Mahwah, New Jersey, Rose spent a semester studying in Dublin tracing her Irish roots to the birthplace of her great-grandmother. She writes about how a study abroad experience allowed her to...