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Intellectual Rigor
Glynn Family Honors Program Scholars enjoy a unique, albeit intense, academic experience that brings together the distinct benefits of Notre Dame’s College of Science and College of Arts and Letters.
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An Engaging Community
Glynn students and faculty regularly gather in Arcadia, the honors program lounge, for casual conversation or lively debate over philosophical, scientific, and moral issues.
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Research Opportunities
In-depth undergraduate research is a hallmark of the Glynn Family Honors Program, which guarantees students at least one summer of research funding.
The Glynn Family Honors Program offers select undergraduates the opportunity to pursue academic excellence within a community of like-minded learners. Glynn scholars engage in lively intellectual discussions in seminar-style honors classes, undertake original research, and develop meaningful mentoring relationships with some of the University’s top professors. Glynn scholars graduate from Notre Dame well prepared for elite Ph.D. programs, top medical and law schools, prestigious service programs, and a wide range of fulfilling careers in business and industry.
Updates
Osunnuga named the Class of 2020 Salutatorian
Glynn senior Love Osunnuga of Granger, Indiana has been named the Salutatorian of the Class of 2020, the sixth Glynn student to be honored as either valedictorian or salutatorian in the last six years.
In addition to being a Glynn Scholar, Osunnuga is a biology and honors mathematics double major, a Stamps Scholar, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She carries a 4.0 grade point average and was named the recipient of the College of Science Dean’s Award and as well as two awards in honors mathematics: the GE Prize and the Robert P. Balles Award.
As an undergraduate, Osunnuga participated in molecular cell biology research, studying Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease in the lab of Professor Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey. Her senior thesis, titled “Role of Von Hippel-Lindau in Tumor Cell Invasion,” focuses on her contributions to the lab’s VHL project.
Her extracurricular activities at Notre Dame included involvement with the Biology Club and the Multicultural Pre-Medical Society and work with the Summer Service Learning Program in Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. She volunteered with various programs at the University’s Robinson Community Learning Center, and also served as a genetics teaching assistant, a chemistry and math tutor, an ONEXYS coach and an emergency room scribe at Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in Mishawaka. She also plays the violin and piano and has worked at Suzuki Music School as a piano accompanist for the past five years.
Osunnuga has been accepted into nine medical schools, including Johns Hopkins, Yale, Northwestern and Columbia, and has chosen to attend the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine as a 21st Century Scholarship recipient.
Congratulations to Love for the well-deserved honor!
The full University press release can be found here: https://www.nd.edu/stories/valedictorian-salutatorian-2020/
[Parts of this article were written by Sue Ryan.]
Phi Beta Kappa Early Inductees
Each spring, the Notre Dame Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest honors society in the US, welcomes roughly 100 students into lifetime membership for their achievements throughout their four years of studies in the liberal arts and sciences. But each fall, the chapter recognizes just 12 particularly outstanding students with early induction, recognizing these students as among the very top of their class, based on their achievements both in and out of the classroom. And each year, Glynn Family Honors Program seniors are well represented among both sets of inductees. This year, we are proud to announce that 8 of the 12 early inductees are members of the Glynn Program. Congratulations go out to Kevin Angell (Economics, Political Science), Joseph Cozzi (Physics in Medicine), Robby Gipson (Chemistry), William Huffman (Biochemistry), Noelle Johnson (Physics, Theology), Prathem Juneja (Political Science, Computer Science), Mita Ramani (Economics, Philosophy). and Matthew Schoenbauer (Mathematics, Philosophy) for this well-deserved recognition for their many and varied accomplishments!
Our Students
Across three continents, research and languages are the keys to Ugandan undergrad’s success in economics and global affairs
Whether he’s studying in Uganda or France, South Africa or South Bend — or speaking English, Luganda, French, or Swahili — Trevor Lwere has one topic at the forefront of his mind. No matter where he is, the economics and global affairs major is driven to investigate what different cultures and perspectives can teach each other about forming the best society. “Every time I move to a different place, I get curious about how different societies imagine how they should be organized and how they approach life,” he said.
Glynn Scholars Awarded Fulbrights
Graduating Glynn seniors Amber Grimmer and Maria Rossi have each been awarded the Fulbright English Teaching Award to teach English in a foreign country. Interestingly, both scholars will be working in two of Europe’s smallest countries.
Highlighted Faculty
Anselma Dolcich-Ashley
Christopher Kolda
