Who We Are

Environmental challenges facing the world are immense. The University of Notre Dame's Ph.D. training program in Global Linkages of Biology, the Environment, and Society (GLOBES) offers real hope for the future. Ecology Module at UNDERCLaunched by an Integrative Graduate Education, Research, and Traineeship grant (IGERT) from the National Science Foundation, GLOBES brings together the complementary skills and knowledge of biologists, environmental and social scientists, public policy experts, lawyers, and religious and community leaders. Collectively they seek innovative and interdisciplinary solutions to a wide range of interrelated problems in environmental and human health.

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Graduate Training Program GLOBES interdisciplinary coursework, modules and seminars continue however, fellowship funding is fully committed to current cohorts of students. New students should investigate University Select Fellowships. Students interested in learning more about GLOBES course offerings and training modules should contact Administrative Coordinator Ginna Anderson.

GLOBES in the News

  • Matt Cooper (Cohort 4, Advisor Gary Lamberti) is quoted in a recent guest commentary of Scientific American on communicating science in the age of social media.
  • Amy Klegarth (Cohort 5, Advisors Hope Hollocher and Agustin Fuentes) is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship Award for research study in Singapore. >More
  • Patrick Shirey (Cohort 2, Advisor Gary Lamberti) was featured in the South Bend Tribune news story on Juday Creek restoration efforts. >More
  • Andy Deines, GLOBES Cohort 1 (Advisor David Lodge), successfully defended his dissertation thesis on the environmental impact of the introduction of invasive tilapia on the Kafue Watershed, Zambia, on April 12. >More
  • GLOBES REU student Josh Morse is lead author of a paper on invasive crayfish in the April 2013 edition of Crustaceana.
  • Sarah Roley (PhD 2012, Cohort 2) has accepted a position as Research Associate with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station of Michigan State University.
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