A community of layers: Discovering Notre Dame, in Rome
The Rome Global Gateway, one of five operated by Notre Dame International, focuses on providing students and scholars research opportunities, taking advantage of the unique combination…
Home away from home: A Rome International Scholar talks about life with her host family
Beatrice Hall is currently studying in Rome as part of the Rome International Scholars program. Every day after class, she takes the metro at Colosseo and gets off at Flaminio station. She then walks across the…
Off the beaten path: Two scholars in Rome explore the city through marathon training
Matthew Canonico, running in front of the Colosseum Matthew Canonico is studying in Rome with the Rome…
An immersive experience: How a study abroad student in Rome learned a new culture through playing water polo
Christopher Kreienkamp was in sixth grade when he first started to play water polo, and he never left the sport. He is currently one of the captains of the …
The Inspired Leadership Initiative explores Rome
Evon “Terry” Vogt and Maureen Toner are part of the first cohort of fellows to go through Notre Dame’s Inspired Leadership Initiative (ILI). The group visited Rome for a full week of academic, cultural, and spiritual engagement.…
An international student’s perspective: Tackling my first American football season
Nicole Lee is a Greater China Scholar and part of the class of 2022. Originally from Malaysia, Lee grew up in Kuala…
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…
The cinematic and literary representation of Italian postwar architecture
Alberto Lo Pinto is a Mellon Post-doctoral scholar in Italian Studies at the Rome Global Gateway through December 2018. Born and raised in Rome, Lo Pinto moved to…
How a study abroad experience changed Mathew Morico’s course of study
If anyone would have asked Mathew Morico when he was a child, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” He would have answered “an engineer.” So when it was time for him to enroll, Morico picked the University…
Learn more about yourself through the Camino de Santiago
Christopher Ebner and Philip Spence, two architecture students studying abroad in Rome, decided to trek through the Camino de Santiago in Spain over fall break. They reflect on their transformative…
A lullaby from cell 382
Macartan Commers and Sam X. Zhuang are two architecture students and musicians from the University of Notre Dame. Commers plays the piano and Zhuang is a singer. While in Rome, they are attending the Textual…
From Ethiopia to Italy: A humanitarian corridor research project
Ilaria Schnyder Von Wartensee, a research assistant professor with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, has been working on a five-year project, extending from Ethiopia to Italy
Rome International Scholar presents particle physics research at CERN in Geneva
Kim presented at CERN for his sub-group Sang Woo Kim, better known as “Ryan” Kim, was born and raised in South Korea. He moved to the United States with his family several years ago, and he currently studies physics…
A Rome bucket list for students and scholars
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Literature, history and humanity: Reflecting on the Shoah in Italy through the words of Primo Levi and the Jewish community of Rome
It appears that a woman named Letizia, known…