Notre Dame Global in Photos: April 2025 | News | Notre Dame London

Notre Dame students engaged in global learning and community across continents. In Rome, they examined Baroque architecture with exclusive access to Borromini’s Chapel of the Three Magi. Mexico City hosted Notre Dame’s first off-campus Rally for newly admitted Mexican students. In northern Chile, students explored the stars during an astronomy trip to the Elqui Valley. Dublin welcomed over 30 Irish students preparing to begin their Notre Dame journey. Events in London, Hong Kong, Cyprus, and South Bend highlighted research, exchange, and interfaith dialogue. From student presentations to cultural mixers and international outreach, April reflected the depth and diversity of Notre Dame’s global engagement.

This photo gallery highlights some of the valuable interactions and experiences Notre Dame faculty, staff, and students have taken part in over the past month.

The selection was curated by Notre Dame Global staff working on campus and in the University's 12 global locations.

Rome

A white-haired man in a light gray jacket and dark pants addresses a group of students inside a chapel with ornate white and marble walls, religious paintings, and a gold altar.

Notre Dame Rome students took part in a special lesson on Baroque Rome, led by architecture expert and Notre Dame professor Joe Connors. The experience focused on renowned Italian architects Bernini and Borromini and included an exclusive visit to Borromini’s Chapel of the Three Magi at Palazzo di Propaganda Fide. The lesson was part of the All Roads Lead to Rome course, which immerses students in the city’s cultural heritage through experiential learning.

Mexico

Notre Dame hosted its first off-campus Rally in Mexico City to celebrate newly admitted Mexican students. The event brought together students, families, alumni, and educators, and featured inspiring talks from members of the Notre Dame Mexico community.

Santiago

Close-up view of the full moon's surface, revealing its textured, gray, cratered landscape against a dark black sky.

Chile is known to have one of the best skies in the world for astronomical observation. This photo was taken during an astronomical observation trip in Vicuña (Elqui region) with Notre Dame Santiago spring semester students as part of the group's overnight excursion to the north of Chile.

Dublin

A group stands in a room, listening to a man with his arms crossed. Behind them, a large screen displays a fall scene of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame.

Seán Lysaght, a native of Dublin and recent graduate of Notre Dame's M.S. in Engineering, Science, and Technology Entrepreneurship (ESTEEM), speaks to a room of Irish students as they prepare to head to Notre Dame this year.

Notre Dame Dublin, the Newman Centre for Faith & Reason, and the ND Alumni Club of Ireland welcomed over 30 students from the island of Ireland who will head to Notre Dame this year to take part in a variety of programs, including four-year undergraduates, study abroad exchange semesters, and summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), as well as a record number of postgraduates starting the ESTEEM M.S. in Entrepreneurship, Technology, & Innovation and the Remick M.A. in Educational Leadership.

Hong Kong

Eight people pose on a city sidewalk at night, some holding drinks and a Notre Dame pennant, with one person playfully kicking up a leg.

Notre Dame Hong Kong and ND Alumni Club of Hong Kong leaders held a farewell party, celebrating a successful semester with spring 2025 exchange students. April also included welcoming newly admitted Notre Dame students in Shenzhen and Hong Kong and visiting Shenzhen middle school to promote Notre Dame undergraduate programs.

London

Nine students stand in front of wooden bookcases, holding research posters on various topics related to Greek plays.

Students in the Notre Dame London class, Bloody Women, presented their semester-long research projects to the Notre Dame London community. These presentations, meant to examine female characters in Greek drama, connected students to local scholars, classicists and theatre practitioners, as well as Notre Dame faculty and classmates.

Jerusalem

Small group meeting in a room with a projector screen displaying "hola." A bald man gestures while speaking to a woman in a gray jacket seated across a round table. Other attendees sit at surrounding tables.

The Realities and Hopes workshop in Cyprus, sponsored by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, brought together Notre Dame teams from Jerusalem and South Bend, along with key figures engaged in Catholic-Jewish and Catholic-Muslim relations.

Global Engagement Programs

A group of University of Notre Dame students sits in a circle on couches and chairs, eating pizza and talking. They wear casual clothes and "Hello" name tags. A framed portrait and photos hang on the wall, and a globe sits by the window.

The Global Engagement Programs team hosted an Ireland program mixer that gathered over 30 Notre Dame students who will study abroad in Ireland during fall 2025 as well as this semester's ten visiting international exchange students from Ireland. The event, called "What's the craic?," takes place once per semester and helps connect outgoing study abroad students to the current exchange students from the same institutions—in this case, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and University of Galway.

Originally published by Cory Hankins at global.nd.edu on May 06, 2025.