Green Sod Summer School 2025: “Sustainability is about community”
This August, Notre…
Yeats and the arts take center stage at Notre Dame Kylemore’s ‘Threshold’
W.B. Yeats, playwright, poet, founder of the Abbey Theatre, and winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, among other accolades, was front and center in conversation, art, and spirit at Notre Dame Kylemore’s Threshold Festival. Mirroring Yeats’ own breadth of work across creative writing, literary…
Three writers awarded Notre Dame Kylemore Residencies 2025
The Irish Writers Centre and Notre Dame Kylemore are delighted to announce that three writers have been awarded a five-day residency on the beautiful grounds of Kylemore Abbey (Co. Galway) this April. The writers are Sadhbh Moriarty, Róisín Ní Neachtain, and Michelle Nic Pháidín. …
Southern voters would consider big changes to institutions in a united Ireland
Public open to new structures to accommodate a changed reality Voters in the Republic would consider “significant changes” to the political institutions in the South in the event of a united Ireland,…
University of Notre Dame wins award for excellence in campus internationalization
In recognition of its outstanding commitment to internationalization both on campus and across the globe, the University of Notre Dame has been selected to receive the 2025 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization. Named for the late Sen. Paul Simon, a longtime proponent of international education, the award is given...
A Wider Path to Notre Dame
More than 100 international students arrive at Notre Dame each August for their first year of college. Some…
A Notre Dame Summer Engineering student returns to Kylemore to model the unique Gothic chapel
Evan Johnston first visited Kylemore with the 2023 Summer Engineering & Environmental Science Program. While here, he visited the iconic Kylemore Gothic chapel. Little did he know he would get to know it much more intimately in the future! …
ND Global Leadership Team awarded Presidential Team Irish Award
The Global Leadership Team (GLT) has been awarded the Presidential Team Irish Award on behalf of Notre Dame…
First-year Arts & Letters students experience learning abroad through Glynn Family Honors Program
First-year University of Notre Dame students visit Ireland during their Glynn Family Honors Program seminar in spring 2024.…
President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., Inaugural Address
A Catholic university, according to my predecessor and brother in Holy Cross, Father Ted Hesburgh, “should be a bridge across all chasms that separate modern people from each other.” Now, when I reflect on those words, I see a problem and an opportunity. The problem is clear: Those chasms…
Historic three-day celebration culminates in Inauguration of Notre Dame’s 18th President, Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C.
For only the third time in the past 70 years, the University of Notre Dame inaugurated a new president Friday (Sept. 13) during the formal investiture of Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., as the University’s 18th president. The Convocation and Inauguration Ceremony, held in Purcell Pavilion, was the culmination of...
Green Sod Ireland and Notre Dame Partnership at Kylemore Abbey
Green Sod volunteers on a conservation action Green Sod Ireland, in partnership with the University of Notre Dame, hosted a Biodiversity Summer…
A New Chapter in a Timeless Story as the Benedictine Nuns Open a Monastery, Education, and Retreat Centre at Kylemore Abbey
Attendees pose together during the Monastery Blessing On August 17th, 2024, the Benedictine nuns of…
Notre Dame Kylemore announces new winter session for their Art Residency Program
In light of the success of the summer MFA residency program, Notre Dame Kylemore is delighted to announce a new winter session for this visual art residency.…
Notre Dame International extends global outreach and presence with new name: Notre Dame Global
Beginning today (April 15), Notre Dame International will adopt a new name, Notre Dame Global, and will introduce itself on its new portal at global.nd.edu. The rebrand emphasizes the interconnectedness of the University of Notre Dame’s 12 locations around the world and reflects Notre Dame Global’s vital role in advancing...
Three writers awarded Kylemore Residency through exciting new partnership
The Irish Writers Centre is delighted to announce that three writers will be awarded a residency opportunity to pursue their work on the beautiful grounds of Kylemore Abbey (Co. Galway) this April. Kieran Fitzgerald, Henrietta McKervey, and Rose Ugoalah have been awarded the Kylemore Residency, in partnership with the Kylemore...
Notre Dame confers honorary degrees at academic convocation in Rome
At an academic convocation on Monday (Jan. 29) at its Rome Global Gateway, the University of Notre Dame conferred honorary degrees on three distinguished leaders: Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums; Bishop Brian Farrell, L.C., secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity; and Roberto Benigni, an internationally acclaimed...