Kellogg International Scholars Program Research Night (VIRTUAL)
First year students interested in research and international studies should attend this event. Only first year students may apply for this program. Attend to learn about the research current International Scholars are doing with their faculty advisers and network with students and faculty of the program following the presentations.
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Program
Welcome and Introduction of the Program – Holly Rivers, Associate Director, Kellogg Institute
Opening Comments: Hind Zahour '21 (computer science/industrial design)
Research Pairs – International Scholars and Faculty Fellows
Marie Bond'21 (civil engineering) and Alexandros Taflanidis, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Chair in Structural Engineering, Concurrent Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Alexander Lewis'22 (neuroscience and behavior/Spanish) and Marisel Moreno, Rev. John A. O’Brien Associate Professor of Latino/a Literature
Closing Comments: Monica Turner '23 (economics/political science)
Hind Zahour ‘22
Hind Zahour's interests are focused on counter terrorism through cybersecurity as well as the way that religion and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East are intertwined and shaped the history, culture and identity of many countries. Zahour is working with Rev. Paul Kollman, CSC. Zahour’s research will be focused on the translation of missionary journals in Africa from French to English...
Marie Bond ‘21
Marie Bond is interested in the structural integrity and vulnerability of infrastructure in areas prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes. She plans to investigate the disparities of infrastructure resilience across countries of varying wealth. Ultimately, she hopes to develop a long-term solution to insufficient infrastructure around the globe, especially in underdeveloped regions...
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...
Lisa Huang ‘21
Lisa Huang is working with Professor Terence McDonnell on his empathy objects project. She is finalizing a research study that uses empathy-inducing narrative, video, and virtual reality to measure potential impact on empathy. With an emphasis on global altruism, Huang is assessing factors of empathy objects and storytelling to discern effectiveness of researched cases...
Claire Mitchell ‘21
Courtney (Claire) Mitchell is working with Professor Terence McDonnell on his Empathy Objects project. The project seeks to advance understanding of the ways in which objects and simulations can be designed to evoke a sense of empathy in a user or viewer...
Terence McDonnell
Terry McDonnell is associate professor of sociology and Director of Graduate Studies and a concurrent faculty member of the Keough School of Global Affairs. He is a cultural sociologist (Ph.D. 2009, Northwestern University) who studies objects and media in everyday life...
Trevor Lwere ‘22
Trevor Lwere is a senior from Kampala, Uganda. Lwere is currently working with Professor Jaimie Bleck in the political science department to study the incentives for civil society organizations to flag corruption in Mali. Lwere is also co-authoring an introduction article to a special issue of a journal entitled, “The Future of Youth in the Sahel” to be published in the Canadian Journal of African Studies in 2022...
Patrick McCabe ‘21
The profile below was current as of 2021 when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Patrick McCabe is a senior majoring in political science and Arabic and minoring in peace studies. He is a research assistant with Professor Jaimie Bleck, contributing to projects studying education and citizenship in Kenya and methods of preventing electoral violence in Ghana...
Alexander Lewis ‘22
Alexander Lewis is a senior neuroscience and Spanish major working with Professor Marisel Moreno in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Lewis is currently working on helping to finalize Professor Moreno’s manuscript for her book Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in the Cultural Production of the Hispanophone Caribbean and Its Diaspora...
Marisel Moreno
Marisel Moreno is the Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Latina/o Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. Issues of race, gender, and ethnicity are central to her work, which also examines the literary and cultural production of Afro-Latinos and the so-called “Other” Latinos (Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Peruvians)...