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Selected as the winner of the 2021 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award — the College’s highest teaching honor.
Kathy Cummings 2021 Sheedy Award
English and American Studies, English teaching assistantship to Belgium
Theresa Azemar AMST Class of 2021 Fulbright Grant
Featured in a recent ND Works article entitled, "A greener day starts in the kitchen" on lessons on sustainable living. ND AMST '17
Caitlin Jacobs ND AMST '17 Sustainability Program Manager

College of Arts & Letters creates new minor in sport, media, and culture

The SMAC website will be available during finals week with further information. We will host information sessions early next semester before accepting applications for the minor.

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If our lives in education have any significance, it will be in our reading the signs of the times and in educating the young of our times in the visions and values that will civilize and make for reasonable human progress and lasting peace on earth.
Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C.

The Department of American Studies acknowledges its presence on the traditional homelands of Native peoples including the Haudenosauneega, Miami, Peoria, and particularly the Pokégnek Bodéwadmik / Pokagon Potawatomi, who have been using this land for education for many hundreds of years and continue to do so.

College of Arts & Letters creates new minor in sport, media, and culture

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Irla Atanda Awarded Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship

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Kathleen Sprows Cummings, 2021 Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient, lauded for making history ‘come alive with connections from today’