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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...
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President of Ireland to deliver 2006 Commencement address

President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, will be the principal speaker and the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree at the University of Notre Dames 161 th Commencement exercises May 21 (Sunday). The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. in the Joyce Center arena on campus.
Theologian Cyril O'Regan speaking at a Notre Dame forum event (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame)

Notre Dame theologian to receive 2024 Ratzinger Prize from Vatican

Cyril O’Regan, the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive the 2024 Ratzinger Prize in Theology, widely regarded as the most prestigious award in the field. Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, will present the award to O’Regan and...