Graduate Molly Hayes awarded George Mitchell Scholarship

Molly Hayes, a 2008 graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s School of Arts and Letters, has been awarded a 2014 George Mitchell Scholarship.

Awarded to only twelve individuals each and every year, the George Mitchell Scholarship is sponsored by the US-Ireland Alliance. The nationally aggressive award is named soon after the former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, who played an crucial role in the Northern Ireland peace procedure. The scholarship is created to connect long term American leaders with Ireland, and gives tuition, accommodations, and living and travel stipends.

Hayes, who studied English and Arabic even though at Notre Dame, will use the Mitchell Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in Irish literature at the Nationwide University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Hayes is currently the Kenya Desk Officer at the U.S. Department of State, the place she led the Washington-primarily based crisis response management for the September terrorist attack at Westgate Mall in Nairobi. Even though an undergraduate at Notre Dame in 2008, she co-founded the ND-ABROAD initiative, which aims to market safety and dignity abroad through schooling in accurate cultural sensitivity. Hayes also was a portion of restructuring Notre Dame’s orientation and re-entry programs, and she produced a documentary on sexual assault and gender issues. She designed a University Counseling Center assistance group for college students who knowledgeable trauma although abroad.

Hayes is the 1st Mitchell Scholar from Notre Dame since 2007.

Hayes’ Mitchell Scholarship was made achievable in element through his participation in Notre Dame’s Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE). CUSE provides undergraduate students in all the University’s schools opportunities for analysis, scholarship, and imaginative projects. The center also assists them in finding faculty mentors, funding and venues for the publication or presentation of their perform, and promotes applications to national Fellowship applications and prepares them in their application procedure.

Much more details on CUSE is accessible online at cuse.nd.edu.

Graduate Molly Hayes awarded George Mitchell Scholarship