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Notre Dame freshman advocates, translates for Italian healthcare workers

Isabella Volmert | Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Even though he’s thousands of miles away, Notre Dame freshman Paolo Mazzara is fighting against the coronavirus by advocating for health care workers in his home country of Italy. Mazzara, a philosophy and global affairs major, volunteers as a translator between on-the-ground healthcare professionals, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Italian “Ministero della Salute,”

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Keough School kicks off Global Affairs supplementary major with focus on addressing international issues

Maria Luisa Paul | Monday, September 2, 2019

As Notre Dame strives to become a more globalized university, the Keough School of Global Affairs is officially launching its new Global Affairs supplementary major. “We are the poster child of that mission. We have always had Notre Dame International, but we represent a real integrative approach to that idea that being a global citizen

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Keough School seeks to globalize Notre Dame experience

Tom Naatz | Friday, September 21, 2018

Since its establishment as Notre Dame’s newest school last academic year, the Keough School of Global Affairs has been extending its reach to undergraduates. In addition to its master’s program for graduate students, administrators hope the school will open global opportunities for undergraduates and globalize Notre Dame. Ted Beatty, the Keough School’s associate dean for

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Speaker previews Keough School of Global Affairs

Ryan Schaffler | Monday, September 26, 2016

Notre Dame is doing something it has not done in almost a century: adding a new school. The Keough School of Global Affairs will join the Mendoza College of Business, the College of Arts and Letters, the College of Science, the College of Engineering, the School of Architecture and the Notre Dame graduate schools in

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University appoints new associate dean for Keough School of Global Affairs

Observer Staff Report | Thursday, February 25, 2016

The University of Notre Dame announced Wednesday the appointment of Sara Sievers as associate dean for policy and practice in the new Keough School of Global Affairs, according to a University press release. Sievers, an expert in international policy and governance issues related to development, will also serve as an associate professor of the practice in

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Alumna endows first Islamic Studies chair

Ann Marie Jakubowski | Friday, January 30, 2015

Last week’s announcement of the University’s first ever endowed professorship in Islamic studies marks a major milestone for the new Keough School of Global Affairs, since it is the first endowed chair to be instituted in the School. The Mirza Family Professorship of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies was established with a $3 million gift

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University creates global affairs school

Catherine Owers | Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Last week, the University announced the creation of the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs and the appointment of history professor R. Scott Appleby as the Marilyn Keough Dean of the school. Appleby said the Keough School will unite the University’s international institutes, including the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute

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Notre Dame set to build Keough School of Global Affairs

Observer Staff Report | Thursday, October 2, 2014

In August 2017, Notre Dame will open the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs — its first new college or school since the Mendoza College of Business was founded in 1921. A University press release issued Wednesday said the school was made possible by $50 million donated by Donald and Marilyn Keough and will