2019 Summer Visiting Scholars
Seven scholars from Europe are hosted to pursue academic research this summer at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
Student Spotlight: Cornelius McGrath
Cornelius McGrath, class of 2017, talks about his experience with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Continue watching Cornelius McGrath on his entrepreneurial path on his YouTube, LinkedIn, or Twitter…
Student Spotlight: Fintech in Finland
Seniors Nick Courtney, Michael McRoskey, and Soren Kyhl travelled to Finland to investigate a new technology called blockchain, which has the potential to revolutionize refugee resettlement, banking, and much more.
Student Spotlight: Matthew Hayes
Matthew Hayes, a senior with a major in Architecture and Concentration in Furniture Design, traveled on a Break Travel and Research Grant from the Nanovic Institute to compile research for his senior thesis. He went to a monastery in Belgium this fall to research a design proposal for a monastery and...
Exploration and Next Steps
The Institute supports Notre Dame students at every stage of their academic careers, but first experiences abroad can often be tentative and as students settle into major courses of study as sophomores, they can take advantage of Institute opportunities to bring their classroom experiences to life.
Student Spotlight: Joe DeLuca '17
Joe DeLuca ’17, a double major in history and economics, discusses the impact of his Nanovic Institute travel and research grant to Vienna, Austria to work on his senior honors thesis and his post-graduation career plans.
Student Spotlight: Beverly Kyalwazi
How do British junior doctors help ensure their voices are heard regarding working conditions that are optimal for patient care? Aspiring physician, Beverly Kyalwazi (’17), recently traveled to London to learn more and found the process can be challenging when trade unions, medicine, and governments intersect.
Student Spotlight: Michael Rossetti
Master of Divinity student, Michael Rossetti, recently returned from Siena, Italy where he served the elderly and disabled, and grew in his Italian conversational skills as well. He recently wrote to us about his experience on La dolce vita è una vita di misericordia (or the sweet life is a life...
The Demonstrable Impact
The 2016-17 academic year marks the 15th year the Nanovic Institute has provided grants for Notre Dame students to pursue research, internships, service, and language training in Europe. The Institute noticed a recent trend: an increasing number of students who received external funding also received funding from the Nanovic Institute....
Visiting Scholars: Summer 2017
Marcela Andoková Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovak Republic Faculty of Arts, Department of Classical and Semitic Philology Marcela's research areas include classical philology, early-Christian and patristic studies, ancient and modern rhetoric. Her focus this July will be “The Ambivalence of Augustine’s Rhetoric in Relation to the Jews” as well as...
Summer Travel and Research
The Nanovic Institute is sponsoring graduate and undergraduate students undertaking summer research projects in eleven European countries.
Student Spotlight: Lorenzo Dell'Oso
Lorenzo Dell'Oso, a doctoral candidate in Italian, received a Nanovic Academic Year Travel and Research Grant for his project "From Philology to Newton's Optics, from printers to engravers: one research week in Giambattista Vico's Naples."
Student Spotlight: Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui
Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui, a senior with majors in Film, Theatre and Television and Environmental Science, travelled to Norway over spring break to pursue a project on documenting climate change. Read more about his experience.
Rome Reflections
With financial support from the Nanovic Institute, the Holy Cross Office of Vocations sent a group of students on a discernment pilgrimage to Rome during spring break. In addition to having time to reflect on their vocations and to meet Fr. Superior General Robert Epping of the Congregation of Holy...
Student Spotlight: Flannan Hehir
Mechanical engineering major Flannan Hehir '18 travelled over spring break to research core renewable energy technology and clean energy technology in Germany.
Student Spotlight: Aileen Markovitz
Nothing can prepare a young opera student to learn the art of singing Italian opera like a month-long intensive program training with top European opera coaches in northern Italy. Thanks in part to the generosity of the Nanovic Institute's Undergraduate European Internship and Service Grant…
Student Spotlight: Alexandra Fedynsky
After seeing her friends’ and family’s reaction to recent violence in France and Ukraine, senior Alexandra Fedynsky decided to center her senior art thesis on art specifically created in response to different forms of violence. During Winter Break, she traveled to Paris and Nice to have a first-hand encounter with...
Rolf-Dieter Heuer, former Director-General of CERN, presents the Nanovic Forum Lecture
Rolf-Dieter Heuer, former Director-General of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, will present the Nanovic Forum Lecture and an informal colloquium on Feb. 21 & 22.
Student Spotlight: Kristina Hook
Kristina Hook, a Ph.D. student in Anthropology and Peace Studies, presented her research on genocides and mass atrocities at the largest annual gathering of European social scientists, hosted by Prague’s historic Charles University.
Notre Dame Day 2016: The Nanovic Impact
Five current students and young alumni share their #thanksNanovic stories on how the Nanovic Institute has made an impact on their college experience and beyond for Notre Dame Day.
Notre Dame Day Spotlight: Steven Fisher '16
Steven Fisher '16, a major in Political Science and International Peace Studies with a Minor in Theology, recieved the 2015 Notre Dame Day Grant to for research and travel to Europe over the fall academic break. Steven comments about how this grant and his other opportunities through the Nanovic have impacted...
Student Spotlight: Nicholas Ames
Nicholas Ames, Doctoral Student, Department of Anthropology had the opportunity to present this preliminary analysis at the national archaeological conference put on by the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) in Washington, D.C. thanks to a Graduate Professional Development Grant from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies in 2015-2016. The National...
Rachel Ganson
This opportunity through the Nanovic Institute provided me a platform to develop my understanding of fishing in the Mediterranean, but also offered focus on the issues as they pertain to Italy in particular. After this initial research venture, I determined I want to focus my senior thesis on international cooperation...
Alumni Spotlight: Kathleen Brennan
Kathleen (Katie) Brennan, was a major in sociology and a recipient of Summer Travel and Research Grant from the Nanovic Institute during the 2012-13 academic year for her project “Effects of the Troubles on Belfast's Youth.” After graduating the University of Notre Dame in 2015, Katie was accepted into the Conflict...
Famous Filmmaker from Poland to Deliver 2015 Nanovic Forum Lecture
Krzysztof Zanussi, a leading figure in contemporary European cinema, will deliver the 2015 Nanovic Forum Lecture at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 9, 2015, in the Eck Visitors Center Auditorium at the University of Notre Dame.
New Nanovic Fellows Announced
Please welcome the following faculty members as our newest Nanovic Fellows. The Nanovic Institute now has more than 170 Nanovic fellows from over twenty-five departments across campus.
Daniel Barabasi
Daniel Barabasi ('17) received a Break Travel and Research Grant for Sophomores and Juniors for his research in Transylvania, Romania. Daniel is currently an honors student working on a degree in neuroscience and behavior in the College of Science. What does neuroscience and behavior have to do with Europe?
Student Spotlight: Emily Mediate
Emily Mediate '15, a double-major in Africana Studies and Pre-Health received a Nanovic travel and research grant to investigate HIV/AIDS interventions in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Stockholm, Sweden for her senior thesis.…
In memoriam: William Pfaff (ND '49)
Main Building by Matthew Rice/Wikimedia The Nanovic Institute marks the passing of Notre Dame alumnus William Pfaff, a long-time contributor to the International Herald Tribune…
Inaugural Barrett Lecture covered by "The Irish Times"
Stephen Collins, political editor of The Irish Times, interviewed Mr. Peter Sutherland, S.C. at the inaugural Barrett Family Lecture sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Sutherland delivered the lecture “European Integration and the Rise of Nationalism" and expressed that "it was time for a full debate on the meaning of...