Sophomore Margaret Thomann Awarded USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship
Margaret Thomann, a sophomore Hesburgh-Yusko Scholar, is the only undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame to be awared a USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship.
Margaret Thomann, a sophomore Hesburgh-Yusko Scholar, is the only undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame to be awared a USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship.
Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program alumna Kathleen Brennan received an invitation from the Irish government to attend the Ireland 2016 Diaspora Gala Event in Dublin on March 16. She will join Professor Briona Nic Dhiarmada and other Notre Dame representatives as well as Irish President Higgins, dignitaries, Liam Neeson and many more at a red carpet event where the film version of 1916 The Irish Rebellion will premier.
From Latvia to Chile, international experiences have become part of daily life for senior Abby Davis, a political science major and Hesburgh-Yusko scholar in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters.
2015 USAID Fellow and Hesburgh-Yusko scholar Meghan Gallagher spent two months in Stellenbosch, South Africa working with The Reach Trust, an organization that provides mobile technology as educational resources. Meghan worked closely with an after school program, The Pebbles Project, and experienced the challenges and inequalities within the South African school system.
HY Scholar Zoe Rae Rote was featured by the United Nations World Food Programme for her work with Notre Dame's World Hunger Coalition.