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Two students holding sign

“I’m going to college in 2025”: Mission accomplished!

Fifteen years ago, at the invitation of Bishop Gerald Kicanas, Notre Dame ACE Academies (NDAA) partnered with St. John the Evangelist in Tucson, AZ where these tiny scholars Mia and...

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Montana Garcia

ACE Teaching Fellow Montana Garcia Awarded Fulbright Scholarship for 2025–26

Notre Dame, IN — Montana Garcia, a graduating member of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Teaching Fellows program, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2025–26 academic...

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Gear Wall

STEM Meets Art

The largest wall in Gina Svarovsky’s office makes a statement. Turn the first gear, and you can see what it says to you. To Gina, an associate professor of the...

St. Joseph Indian School volunteers at their bookmobile

Like an Ice Cream Truck...but with Books!

This summer, the St. Joseph Indian School Bookmobile distributed books to 1,500 children and adults across 43 South Dakota communities. Two Notre Dame undergraduate students, Jocelyn Limon and Myldred Hernandez-Gonzalez...

Daara Jalili

Q&A with Daara Jalili: Domer Dozen 2022

From classroom teaching to fighting fires, Daara Jalili has taken his own path since graduating from Notre Dame and becoming an ACE teacher. He was named one of the Domer...

Meaghan Crowley-Sullivan

Through Others' Eyes

"I would study and study and study and know the material, and then I'd go into the test... and I would s t r u g g l e. I...

Viri walking outside with with LEAD

The Lasting Impact of a Latino Leader

When Viridiana Vargas was in seventh grade, she had a life-changing encounter with a visitor to her social studies class that began with a seemingly simple question: “Where are you...