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Virna Vidal Menezes headshot
May 28, 2026
ND PIER Ph.D. Student awarded NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
Dalia Mota
May 21, 2026
ND PIER Burns Fellow/CREO Graduate Student Dalia Mota receives the American Dream Grant!
Chloe Gibbs
May 7, 2025
Notre Dame Economist Chloe Gibbs Appointed Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Sofia Duenas
September 24, 2024
ND PIER Fellow Sofia Duenas speaks on behalf of the graduate students at the Convocation & Inauguration of Fr. Robert Dowd
ND PIER Burns Fellow Sofia Duenas represented the graduate students at Fr. Dowd's Convocation and Inauguration Ceremony on Thursday, September 12, 2024. She spoke on behalf of the ND graduate students to offer a greeting to Fr. Robert Dowd in his role as President of the University. For more...
Kristin Valentino
October 7, 2022
NIH awards $4 million grant to psychologists researching suicide prevention

University of Notre Dame psychologists Theodore Beauchaine and Kristin Valentino have been awarded the Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health to research two promising new interventions to reduce the risk of suicide among vulnerable youth. Part of the NIH High-Risk...

Image of Chloe Gibbs
July 18, 2022
Chloe Gibbs to serve on Council of Economic Advisors
Chloe Gibbs, assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to a one-year term as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). The council is charged with offering the president of the United States objective economic advice based on data...
Dr. Chloe Gibbs
October 27, 2021
Think. Pair. Share. with Dr. Chloe Gibbs
From apple picking and pumpkin patches to community building and examining the economics of education in pursuit of better outcomes for disadvantaged children and families. Dr. Chloe Gibbs, Director of Notre Dame’s Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER) and Assistant Professor...
Mark Berends
August 23, 2021
Berends Writes "The Current State of School Choice in the United States" in Phi Delta Kappan
This article first appeared in Phi Delta Kappan. Over the last 30 years, the school choice movement has been one of the most prominent large-scale reform efforts in American education. Arguably, only the national movement to promote rigorous learning standards and test-based accountability has...
Dr. Chloe Gibbs
August 12, 2021
Chloe Gibbs Named New Director of the Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research
Chloe Gibbs, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been selected to direct the Institute’s Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER). Gibbs will lead ND PIER’s efforts to train Notre Dame...
Dr. Chloe Gibbs
July 24, 2021
Chloe Gibbs Receives Research Grant from AERA-NSF Grants Program
Dr. Chloe Gibbs , a Fellow in the Institute for Educational Initiatives and ND PIER Faculty Committee. member, received a research grant through the AERA-NSF grants program for a project entitled, The War on Poverty and Higher Education Access: Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Effects of...
Patrick Graff
July 8, 2021
Patrick Graff is awarded the AERA Dissertation Grant
Congratulations to ND PIER Burns Fellow and CREO Graduate Student/Ph.D.Candidate Patrick Graff on the award of an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grant. The $25,000 grant provides support the advanced doctoral students doing analysis of large scale data and writing...
Mark Berends
May 3, 2021
Mark Berends appointed director of the Notre Dame Institute for Educational Initiatives
Mark Berends , a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame who currently directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and serves as an associate vice president for research, has been appointed director of the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives...
April 12, 2021
Brian Fitzpatrick is awarded AERA Dissertation Grant
Congratulations to Sociology Ph.D. Candidate and ND PIER Fellow Brian Fitzpatrick on the award of an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grant. The grant provides support to advanced doctoral students doing analysis of large-scale data and writing doctoral dissertations...

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