The Rome Global Gateway announces consortium with Stanford University and Princeton University
The Rome Global Gateway announces a consortium with Stanford University and Princeton University’s Humanities Council to support the Rome Seminar, a one-month funded summer course for graduate students held in the city. The Seminar introduces students to working with primary sources in Rome. Taught on-site in archives and libraries, graduate...
The Rome Gateway opens summer internship opportunities for year 2020
The Rome Global Gateway is pleased to announce the opening of the Summer Internship Program 2020 for rising sophomores, juniors and seniors. Students are encouraged to submit their applications if interested in coming to Rome to conduct an internship from late May through early July 2020.…
When in Rome, live as the Romans live
Michela D’Orazio, a 19 year-old university student, recently moved to Rome from Isola del Liri, a small town in the Lazio region. In September, the chemistry major started at La Sapienza university, the main university in Rome with more than 112,000 enrolled students.
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The Rome Global Gateway and the Center for Italian Studies to collaborate on enriching the Rome Library Italian Literature Collection
The Rome Global Gateway and the Center for Italian Studies have started a collaboration to enrich the Rome library collection during the academic year 2018-2019. Due to last year’s success, the collaboration was extended to the current academic year 2019-2020. The first project in this collaboration will involve the acquisition...
Applications Open for Rome Seminar 2020
The Rome Global Gateway is glad to announce the opening of the application process for the Rome Seminar 2020 which will take place from June 10 to July 5th, 2020. Participants at the Vatican Library Every summer since 2011, the Rome gateway has hosted this unique research opportunity for graduate...
Notre Dame International introduces two new faculty research grants for 2019-2020
Notre Dame International’s faculty research grant cycle is now open and more opportunities are available internationally for the 2019-2020 cycle. Two new grants have been created through generous University benefactors, including the Wine Family Beijing Global Gateway Research Grant Program…
Students invited to explore opportunities abroad during annual Study Abroad Week
Notre Dame International is hosting a series of events to help connect students with resources and information on study abroad opportunities around the world. Study Abroad Week kicks off Monday, September 9. Throughout the week, students are encouraged to participate in signature events, information sessions, and social opportunities.…
Notre Dame Professor advocates for Italian "Dante Day" in Interview with Corriere della Sera
Professor Zygmunt G. Barański was recently interviewed by the major Italian daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera.
Notre Dame president co-signs climate change accords with energy and investor executives at Vatican summit
Executives from among the world’s leading energy producers and investors concluded two days of Vatican-sponsored dialogue on energy transition Friday (June 14), with — for the first time — most signing statements of support for carbon pricing and disclosures on climate change risk.
A dose of culture and context: How a tarantula spider teaches cultural diversity in Italy
When students come from campus to Rome for the summer programs, they have a shorter amount of time to spend in the city and truly immerse themselves in the atmosphere, culture, contradictions and beauties of it, compared to their colleagues during the academic year.…
Rome Global Gateway receives new designation as Italian research institution
The Rome Global Gateway's location is in the heart of Rome, just steps from the Colosseum
The University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway has been recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research…
2019 study abroad photo contest now open
Hillary Alamene’s photo from the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem won first place win the 2018 photo contest Notre Dame International’s study abroad photo contest is now accepting submissions for the 2019 cycle. Undergraduate students are encouraged to share their study abroad experiences and stories through engaging and inspiring photos. The...
How a summer program allows engineering students to conquer the eternal city
Every year, during the months of June and July, Rome flocks with engineering students from the University of Notre Dame. Since 2014, students have been coming every semester for a six-week summer program at the Rome Global Gateway. More than 270 students have participated in over six years. All engineering...
Marching for climate change while interning in Rome
Meilin Scanish, a junior at the University of Notre Dame, is interested in working in international law in and wanted to gain international work experience. After having the chance to travel to Nepal and Qatar for conferences on the conciliation of traditional Islamic theology and modernity, and to France to...
Daria Borghese presents her book: "Palazzo Borromeo. L'Ambasciata d'Italia presso la Santa Sede"
Daria Borghese, who teaches the All Roads lead to Rome course at the Rome Global Gateway, presented at Palazzo Borromeo the second edition of the book "Palazzo Borromeo. L'Ambasciata d'Italia presso la Santa Sede" during the seminar conducted by architect Enzo Pinci: "Pirro Ligorio and the Roman factories…
Third year architects take three of five top honors at Historical Dwellings Idea Competition in Rome
First prize designs by Oddo, Parks, Salazar, and Spence. This past week, third year architecture students enjoyed the fruits of months of hard work as they closed out their academic year in Rome with final reviews, exams and a public exhibition of their work. On Friday May 3rd, eleven of...
The School of Architecture marks 50 years of the Rome Studies Program at the Rome Global Gateway
The School of Architecture is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rome Studies Program at the Rome Global Gateway on April 10-13, 2019.
For the last 50 years, every third-year student in the School of Architecture has lived these experiences as part of the Rome Studies Program.…
David Mayernik live-streaming fresco painting demonstrations
David Mayernik, associate professor in the school of architecture and graduate of Notre Dame 83', is a fresco evangelist. He recently conducted from the Rome Gateway a live-streamed video demonstration of the fresco painting process for Professor Marius Hauknes’ course on campus, Pictures on Walls: Murals and Mosaics in the Medieval...
Luca Codignola publishes book on blurred nationalities across the North Atlantic, 1763-1846
Luca Codignola, senior fellow of the Cushwa Center for the History of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame…
Professor Ingrid Rowland publishes book on the divine spark of Syracuse
Ingrid D. Rowland, professor in the department of history and the school of architecture at the University of Notre Dame, published her latest book entitled “The Divine Spark of Syracuse." The book focuses on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, disclosing the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost...