Kellogg International Scholars Program Research Night
If you are a freshman interested in applying to the Kellogg International Scholars Program, or a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute or the Keough School of Global Affairs interested in working with the program, this event is for you! Come learn about the research current International Scholars are doing with their faculty advisers. Then attend the reception to get your questions answered and network with students and faculty.
Program:
Welcome and Introduction of the Program – Holly Rivers, Associate Director, Kellogg Institute
Opening Comments: Christian Abraham Arega ‘20 (biochemistry)
Presenters – International Scholars and Faculty Fellows
Mita Ramani '20 (economics/philosophy)
Hannah Gillespie '20 (mechanical engineering), Mary Solokas '20 (environmental engineering), Alexandros Taflanidis, Associate Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences and Tracy Kijewski Correa, Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Nicholas Ottone '20 (applied and computational mathematics and statistics/political science), María Luísa Paúl Rangel '21 (economics/political science) and Michael Coppedge, Professor of Political Science
Closing Comments - Lisa Huang '21 (electrical engineering)
Reception to follow in the Great Hall
Christian Abraham Arega ‘20
Christian Abraham Arega is a recent graduate ('20) from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Arega majored in biochemistry and minored in anthropology while at Notre Dame and will be pursuing a Masters of Public Health with a concentration in Global Health Policy at Yale University starting in the Fall of 2020...
Mita Ramani ‘20
Mita Ramani is conducting research with Professor Mariana Candido, working with 19th century court cases from Angola. The court cases are found in the form of primary document court records that have been stored in the backrooms of courthouses for over a century. Ramani is working through transcribing the documents from their calligraphic Portuguese script into modern Portuguese and then further translating the cases into English for analysis...
Hannah Gillespie ‘20
This bio was current as of 2020 when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Hannah Gillespie seeks to increase access to clean water in Léogâne, Haiti. Her team is composed of students in mechanical, civil, and environmental engineering, professors Alexandros Taflanidis and Tracy Kijewski-Correa, and community leaders in Léogâne...
Mary Solokas ‘20
Mary Solokas is currently focused on improving access to clean drinking water in Haiti as part of an interdisciplinary team interested in the Engineering Grand Challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals. Through a human-centered design approach, Solokas is involved with the brainstorming and conception of possible water treatment technologies subject to the design requirements and constraints of Haiti...
Alexandros Taflanidis
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Alexandros Taflanidis is professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences. His research focuses on uncertainty quantification and uncertainty conscious design, with applications to disaster risk reduction, Bayesian model updating, dynamical system design, and enhancement of sustainability/resilience of civil infrastructure systems...
Tracy L. Kijewski-Correa
Tracy Kijewski-Correa is the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where she also serves as Academic Director of the School’s Integration Lab (i-Lab)...
Nicholas Ottone ‘20
Nicholas Ottone assists Professor Michael Coppedge with research concerning the effect of democratic changes in one nation on other nations within existing networks. Visualizing these changes through time on shifting maps will assist audiences and researchers on the impact of changes in polarchy on neighboring nations and allies...
María Luisa Paúl Rangel ‘21
María Luisa Paúl Rangel is a native of Caracas, Venezuela. Living under Venezuela’s current political, economic, and social crisis propelled Paúl Rangel’s interest in democratization and foreign policy, and inspired her to understand the mechanisms of her country’s democratic erosion...
Michael Coppedge
Michael Coppedge is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research interests include democratization and the quality of democracy; Latin American parties and party systems; Venezuelan politics; and comparative politics methodology. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 1995...