News: January 2016

The "Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory":http://turbo.nd.edu/ (NDTL), a 25,000 square foot facility located in South Bend’s "Ignition Park":http://www.ignitionpark.com/, is a world-class...

January 29, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/188788/polzonetti_icon.jpg(Pierpaolo Polzonetti)! Pierpaolo Polzonetti, an associate professor in Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) and Sacred Music at...

January 29, 2016

Professor Jennifer Tank has been named the new Director of the University of Notre Dame Environmental…

January 29, 2016

Since astronomers discovered the Smith Cloud, a giant gas cloud plummeting toward the Milky Way, they have been unable to...

January 29, 2016

A recruiting poster for the Alliance for Catholic Education’s (ACE) first cohort suggested: “Tired of getting homework? Why not give...

January 29, 2016

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/188709/200x/shaun_lee_gas.jpg(Scanning electron micrograph of red blood cell hemolysis by the Streptolysin S producing Group A Streptococcus. Credit: Shaun Lee,...

January 29, 2016

Notre Dame juniors Tabitha Healy and Paulina Eberts are assisting with the repair of four HPLC systems that will be...

January 29, 2016

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/188500/200x/philanthropy_300.jpg(Philanthropy)! Corporate philanthropy benefits organizations in many ways: Giving enhances a business’s reputation and strengthens a business’s efforts toward...

January 28, 2016

Investigators in the Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) are dedicated to conducting innovative and integrative research that confronts the complex...

January 27, 2016

The Center for Open Science (COS) has entered into a multi-year partnership with the University of Notre Dame to support...

January 27, 2016

On Monday (Jan. 25), the World Health Organization announced that Zika virus, a mosquito-borne illness that in the past year...

January 26, 2016

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/187771/original/wireless_institute_800x480.jpg(A full-head mannequin testing wireless performance in Notre Dame’s anechoic chamber for the Wireless Institute)! A yellow mannequin half-head...

January 25, 2016

As part of the celebration of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment Laudato…

January 25, 2016

A team of researchers has observed the brightest ultra metal-poor star, or UMP, ever discovered. The star is a rare...

January 25, 2016

The ​Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) and the Toqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life are pleased...

January 25, 2016

Joel Boerckel, Assistant Professor of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, was awarded a Collaboration in Translational Research grant for...

January 22, 2016

Notre Dame economics major Melanie Wallskog walked into her professor’s office hours with a question. She walked out with a...

January 22, 2016

On Tuesday January 19, members from the Harper Cancer Research Institute at Notre Dame, traveled to the Indiana State Capitol...

January 22, 2016

Robert A. Schulz, Notre Dame Professor of Biological Sciences receives a 2-year grant from the National Institute Health for a...

January 22, 2016

As recently reported by researchers at the University of Notre Dame, a major disease-carrying mosquito population has been discovered in...

January 22, 2016

Five Notre Dame faculty members have been named to the Thomson Reuters’ 2015 Highly Cited Researchers list, the top 1...

January 21, 2016

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/187375/200x/scott_merrill_driehaus_300.jpg(Scott Merrill, 2016 Driehaus Prize laureate)! Scott Merrill, an architect known for his originality and creative application of architectural...

January 21, 2016

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/187416/200x/golf_putt_300.jpg(Golf putt)! From the middle-school child considering the premier brands of soccer shoes, to the college graduate weighing which...

January 21, 2016

NDIGD recently conducted a baseline study to determine migration frequency and distance, decision-making for migration, and mortality rates as a baseline.

January 19, 2016

Dominic Acri is a sophomore taking full advantage of all that Notre Dame has to offer. He has a double...

January 19, 2016

Jessica Payne never dreamed of becoming a rising star in the science of sleep. In fact, until midway through graduate...

January 19, 2016

Did you receive affection, play freely, and feel supported in childhood? Childhood experiences like these appear to have a lot...

January 19, 2016

The key to improving human memory, Notre Dame psychology graduate student Andrea Kalchik believes, is understanding the circumstances that cause...

January 19, 2016

Computers are astounding devices, but they aren’t great listeners. They can’t lend a hand when users struggle to find a...

January 19, 2016

p(image-right). !http://al.nd.edu/assets/186446/kalchik_icon.jpg(Andrea Kalchik)! The key to improving human memory, Notre Dame psychology graduate student Andrea Kalchik believes, is understanding the...

January 18, 2016