About
Researchers at Notre Dame advance human understanding through research, scholarship, and creative endeavor in order to be a repository for knowledge and a powerful means for doing good in the world.
Notre Dame Research supports and encourages innovation in more than thirty core facilities, as well as in a number of key areas of research, including cancer, environmental change, global health, and many more, with faculty finding their homes in one of Notre Dame’s seven colleges or schools.
Inspired by the University’s Catholic mission, Notre Dame’s world-class faculty and students are pursuing globally significant, solutions-oriented research as Notre Dame’s research enterprise grows in line with President Jenkins’ vision:
“A great Catholic university for the 21st century, one of the preeminent research institutions in the world.”
The University's Strategic Framework
Research at the University of Notre Dame is guided by Notre Dame 2033: A Strategic Framework.
Within the University's Strategic Framework, Research and Scholarship are highlighted as one of the University's four key goals, including Catholic Character, Undergraduate Education, and Graduate and Professional Education, that provide a framework for Notre Dame's distinctive mission. Specifically, the goal of Research and Scholarship at the University of Notre Dame is as follows:
Advance human understanding through scholarship and research that seeks to heal, unify, and enlighten.
Mission of Notre Dame Research
Within Notre Dame Research, our team of faculty and staff across campus are guided by the following internal mission to:
Grow, strengthen, promote, translate, and safeguard research, scholarship, and creative endeavor at the University of Notre Dame.