The University of Notre Dame has received $128 million in research funding for fiscal year 2016 — the second highest in its history. In fiscal year 2015, the University’s research funding was its highest of all time, reaching $133 million.
Local entrepreneurs have solar energy, Internet connectivity, skills training, and mentors to build businesses and create jobs in South Africa.
Young business and social entrepreneurs from Latin America and the Caribbean will travel to South Bend to work alongside local businesses, start-ups, non-governmental organizations and similar entities.
Professor Marya Lieberman and the Paper Analytical Device (PAD) Project receive a generous annual donation toward increasing the capacity to detect fake pharmaceuticals.
The documentary follows young African leaders as they journey through leadership training and a cultural immersion of a lifetime.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) recently awarded a grant to Professor Jaimie Bleck and the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) to evaluate a program aimed at improving local governance in Malawi.
With a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Ebrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, has launched a three-year project to enrich scientific and theological literacy among recent graduates of Islamic seminaries in India.
2016 USAID Fellow, Chris Newton, was recently featured in a news article by Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Chris is currently working in South Sudan with the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI) on a different fellowship program. He will continue his work with AVSI through the support of the USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship. Read his story here…
For the Planet and the Poor, the first major conference organized by the University of Notre Dame’s new Keough School of Global Affairs, will open with a keynote panel, “A Surprising Convergence, a Moment of Opportunity,” at 6 p.m. on April 4 (Monday) in Jordan Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business.
During a speech at the University of Notre Dame on March 18, the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Kenneth Hackett addressed the nature of the Holy See’s diplomatic work, and spoke about the impact of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’.
Major gains in Haitian students’ literacy skills through the Read to Learn initiative, led by Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE)—in partnership with Notre Dame’s Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD)—have earned Notre Dame a significant role as part of a $33,379,887 million U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project in Haiti.
Sara Sievers has been appointed associate dean for policy and practice and associate professor of the practice in the new Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
University of Notre Dame junior Cassidy McDonald will be going on assignment with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kristof as part of a New York Times contest. McDonald will be travelling to a developing country to raise awareness about neglected global issues.
U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Kenneth Hackett will speak on campus on March 18, in the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Visitors Center. Ambassador Hackett will speak on the impact of Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si'. The event is free and open to the public.
Corporate philanthropy benefits organizations in many ways: Giving enhances a business’s reputation and strengthens a business’s efforts toward corporate social responsibility. But does corporate philanthropy do anything to benefit a business’s employees?
NDIGD recently conducted a baseline study to determine migration frequency and distance, decision-making for migration, and mortality rates as a baseline.
A five-year collaboration between institutions in the United States and Sweden has resulted in a new, public dataset for researchers of democracy.
The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) is partnering with Results for Development (R4D) on a USAID-funded project focused on implementing a rapid feedback system to improve development program outcomes.
The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) and Professor Marya Lieberman have won a USAID Development Innovation Ventures award to improve global health.
It is now widely accepted that for global development to progress at the pace governments would like, it is imperative to engage the private sector.