In episode two, we explore Notre Dame students' work on environmental issues in Ireland. None is more pressing than the role of bogs, a quintessential feature of the Irish landscape. They've been plowed over for generations to harvest the underlying peat for fuel. As the practice is phased out, one Notre Dame graduate student is studying how to restore these crucial pieces of carbon-storing habitat.

Between Dublin and Kylemore, Notre Dame is able to offer a singular breadth of experience on the Emerald Isle that redefines the traditional meaning of a study abroad program to include cultural fluency, a way of understanding another way of life that leads to global thinking and global citizenship. 

There’s a traditional Irish blessing that begins, “May the road rise up to meet you.” It’s meant to convey well-wishes for a smooth journey…both literally and figuratively. But yet, there’s something to be said for choosing to go off the beaten path. For intentionally taking the road less traveled. In the first part of our look at Notre Dame's relationship with Ireland, we focus on Kylemore Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in the Connemara region. Students and scholars from every academic discipline come to Kylemore for the space they need to focus on their work and experience the cultural heart of Ireland.…

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018, will be the principal speaker and receive an honorary degree at the University of Notre Dame’s 178th University Commencement Ceremony on May 21.

Maria Ressa, a Filipino and American journalist who won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for reporting on abuses of power and fake news, will be the distinguished speaker for the Asia Leadership Forum at Notre Dame on March 21, sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.

Growing up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Katherine Pardy wasn’t one of those young people whose college plans began and ended with the University of Notre Dame. She was, however, sure of her career plan: to follow in her parents’ footsteps and become a doctor.

University of Notre Dame experts take a retrospective view on this one-year mark of the Russian invasion and provide insight into the war and its impact on Ukraine, the U.S. and the world.

Clinton Carlson, an associate professor of visual communication design at the University of Notre Dame, is exploring how design can help communities better prepare and respond when disaster strikes. With funding from a Luksic Family Collaboration Grant, through Notre Dame International, Carlson launched an initiative called Design for Emergency, which hosted a series of workshops on campus over the last two weeks.

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child at the University of Notre Dame has received a $600,000 award to implement training that integrates whole child development and social emotional learning skills in classrooms and creates safe and inclusive residential school environments.

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs will welcome Giorgi Margvelashvili, the former president of the Republic of Georgia, to deliver the 2023 Nanovic Forum Lecture: “Russian Aggression in Ukraine and Eastern Europe: Post-Soviet Bloc Politics and Consequences” at 5 p.m. Feb. 8 (Wednesday) in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium.

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame has launched the Legacy Project, a new initiative to migrate a digital archive of more than 200,000 audiovisual and textual materials from the Colombian Truth Commission to the University’s servers and to develop a global platform.

University of Notre Dame economist A. Nilesh Fernando recently examined whether a Sri Lankan governmental rating system could help prevent the widespread abuse of South Asian migrants in the Persian Gulf region at the hands of their employers.

The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame has awarded the 2023 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies to Stella Ghervas, professor of Russian history at Newcastle University, England, for her book “Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union,” published by Harvard University Press.

The University of Notre Dame is launching a new program in software engineering at its Global Gateway in Jerusalem that prepares participants to become full-stack developers in two years.

University of Notre Dame senior Audrey Miles will study at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, next year as one of 16 Churchill Scholars.

The results show that if a vote were held on Irish unification at present, voters in Northern Ireland would choose to remain part of the United Kingdom by an overwhelming majority, with only 27 percent choosing to unify with the Republic of Ireland compared to 50 percent in favor of remaining in the U.K.

The proposals are the result of a two-year study supported by an initiative created by the University of Notre Dame’s Office of the President as part of the Notre Dame Forum, ‘“Rebuild My Church’:  Crisis and Response,” to fund research projects that address issues emerging from the crisis. The proposals have been forwarded for consideration to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Tiziana Serafini, a native of Rome and a teaching professor of Italian at the University of Notre Dame, developed a new service-learning course that offers a solution for refugees and empowers Notre Dame Italian students to become educators themselves — by teaching basic Italian to African refugees before they relocate to Italy.