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For Captain Karen Carmona, a career in law enforcement wasn’t something she had planned. In fact, she began college as a dental hygiene major. But an encounter with her university’s police department changed everything. “They came in seeking applicants for their cadet program,” she remembers.…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
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The Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) advances understanding of the fastest-growing and youngest population in the United States. It strengthens the University of Notre Dame’s mission to prepare transformative leaders in all areas of society, including the arts, sciences, business, politics, faith, and family life.| Institute for Latino Studies
The Institute for Latino Studies welcomes its Advisory Council to campus once a year during football season. The council helps position ILS as a premier teaching and curricular institute at Notre Dame, and as a model and leader among institutes of its kind across the nation. Made up of 15 members,…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
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In 2024, the Institute launched its inaugural Leadership Academy and Performing Arts Bootcamp. Held during Welcome Week, the three-day intensive program brought together dance instructors and ethnomusicologists as master teachers for 36 undergraduate students promoting Mexican arts and culture on…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
Six first-year students were greeted by the ILS community during Welcome Weekend. With only a week of rest after hiking together in the Wyoming mountains, the ninth cohort of merit scholars marched up the steps of Bond Hall to meet their mentors, faculty, and family for the next four years as members…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
On Thursday, August 21st, the Institute for Latino Studies hosted its first annual Faculty Field Day, bringing together ILS faculty, staff, and friends ...| Institute for Latino Studies
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By Jimena Lucia Ramazzini '26 As part of the Cross Cultural Leadership Program offered through the Institute for Latino Studies, four Notre Dame un...| Institute for Latino Studies
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This past summer, four rising sophomores had the incredible opportunity to study at El Tecnológico de Monterrey, one of Mexico’s most prestig...| Institute for Latino Studies
On July 26, 2025, the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame concluded this year's Cross Cultural Leadership Program. Since 2006, ILS has provided room, board, and a modest stipend to Latino studies supplementary majors and minors eager to engage in real life challenges addressed…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
Twenty-two University of Notre Dame students have been named finalists for the 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Student Program, with another seven singled out as alternates for the award. The finalists include 18 undergraduate students and four graduate students.| Institute for Latino Studies | News
The SomosND Committee made up of change makers and partners across campus concluded its year long campaign to acknowledge Latino student, faculty, and a...| Institute for Latino Studies
On May 1, 2025, the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame hosted its annual Senior Thesis Presentations, a tradition started just two years ago by alumni Nathalie Garcia and Lindsey Reina. What began with two students has grown into a rich academic celebration of eight seniors…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
On March 18th, Notre Dame’s BFAYO hosted their very first Azúl y Oro Fest at Library Lawn. The evening invited the campus community to experi...| Institute for Latino Studies
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Over spring break, I had the opportunity to travel to Loreto, Mexico, with nine other students from Notre Dame’s Latino Studies Scholars Program (...| Institute for Latino Studies
Click HERE to view the 2025 Latino Studies Graduation Program.…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
On April 11 and 12, Rachel Parroquin gave an invited lecture, “El papel de la familia, los maestros y los mediadores en el camino de la lectura autónoma” to two cohorts in the Diplomado Internacional en Promoción de la Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (LIJ). The program helps…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
Rachel Parroquin and Danielle Wood’s article on “Identifying and measuring broader impacts of Spanish community-engaged learning and implications for academic programming and Latino community development” has been published with online-open access…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
On the evening of Saturday, March 29, Mariachi ND held its first-ever Spring concert. Originally scheduled to take place on Library Lawn, the event moved…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
On Saturday, March 29th, Sueños Sin Fronteras hosted its annual college preparation conference for 8th–12th grade students and their…| Institute for Latino Studies | News
In February 2024, Pope Francis met with the University of Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees at the Vatican for the final time. During the meeting, he...| Institute for Latino Studies
The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS), in partnership…| Institute for Latino Studies
