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Built on curiosity: How Notre Dame and Puebla became research partners

In the summer of 2017, a University of Notre Dame student returned to Puebla. She had studied there the previous fall and decided to go back—this time as a Harper Cancer Research Institute-funded intern, working in Rocío Baños Lara's laboratory at the Centro…
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Two COIL programs connect Notre Dame and Mexico this year

This past academic year, Notre Dame Mexico supported two Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) programs, both designed to connect Notre Dame students with peers at partner institutions in Mexico City to ensure an international experience, even if students do not have the opportunity to…
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The Wicked Problem of Peace

By the time the panel closed, George A. López had been in Mexico City for a little over 24 hours—just long enough to start recognizing faces in the room at Universidad Autómoma de México’s (UNAM) Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN). But López has spent a career learning...
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Leading Ladies: A Notre Dame Mexico Alumni Series

International Women's Day was born out of the labor movement, shaped by decades of fight for equal rights, and recognized today in more than 100 countries during the month of March. More than a century later, even when the world has witnessed a significant change in society's thoughts about women's…
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Notre Dame's mission to Mexico: Defending the most vulnerable

Last October, Notre Dame Law Professor Jimmy Gurulé traveled to Mexico City with a clear message: the dangerous climate for immigrants made collaboration to defend the most vulnerable population urgent. In this context, Mexican nationals not only face language barriers in the courts but also systematic…