1. New research indicates fatherhood changes men’s brains

    Testosterone levels in men are important because they facilitate the drive to partner and procreate. Although the decline could be alarming to some, University of Notre Dame professor Lee Gettler has found through research that the decline occurs primarily as a reset of priorities.

  2. Tiny implants fight cancer with light

    “Certain colors of light penetrate tissue deeper than other ones,” says Thomas O’Sullivan, associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame and coauthor on the paper. 

  3. Partnership seeks to bolster factory-built housing industry

    Purdue has teamed up with the University of Notre Dame, Michigan State University, and the University of Michigan, and the group has already received $1 million from the National Science Foundation to create a proposal to secure the larger grant from the NSF Regional Innovation Engines program.

  4. Implantable Wireless LED Device Promises to Destroy Cancer Cells

    Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have introduced a new approach to tackling deep-seated cancers with an innovative implantable LED device.

  5. Miniature, implantable LED device fights cancer with light

    Light therapy has been effective in treating surface and nearby skin cancers when used with a light-activated drug. However, cancers situated deep within the body, surrounded by tissue, blood, and bone, have been difficult to treat using light. To address this challenge, engineers and scientists at the University of Notre Dame have developed an implantable wireless LED device.

  6. Drone Response partners with Oklahoma Dept. of Commerce for innovation hub

    Drone Response, an unmanned autonomous vehicle startup out of the University of Notre Dame, recently clinched a partnership with the State of Oklahoma Department of Commerce to establish an advanced software development and integrated engineering testing lab in Oklahoma.

  7. How leaders can improve their strategic decision-making

    Recent research from the University of Notre Dame supports this notion. The researchers studied customer service teams and found that our tendency to stick with tried and trusted methods can be hugely valuable in complex and difficult circumstances because they increase both our efficiency and effectiveness.

  8. Rice-sized warrior: New LED device uses light to destroy deep cancers

    Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have created a wireless, implantable LED device for the treatment of “deep-seated cancers.”

  9. Many popular tampon brands contain arsenic and lead: report

    These findings follow a 2023 study from the University of Notre Dame which found polyfluoroalkyl chemicals — or PFAs, also known as "forever chemicals" — in 123 menstrual products sold in the U.S. 

  10. How top scientists now think you can 'catch' depression and anxiety like you would a cold - here's how you can protect yourself

    For example, a 2014 U.S. study in the journal Clinical Psychological Science found depressive thinking may spread between roommates at university. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, studied 108 new students who'd been randomly assigned to share rooms as pairs.

  11. Residents shocked and concerned by elevated lead hazards in South Bend neighborhoods

    SOUTH BEND — Ornella Joseph and Vikrant Jandev, graduate students with the Notre Dame Lead Innovation Team, provided lead testing at the summer kickoff at Randolph Park on June 1. 

  12. Messaging risk to drive coastal adaptation

    Tracy Kijewski-Correa: The acute effects of climate change are already manifesting, yet coastal residents have taken little action to mitigate these effects or adapt to them. 

  13. Scientists found another way we’re exposed to ‘forever chemicals’: Through our skin

    Waterproof cosmetics like mascara, long-wear matte lipsticks and waterproof clothing are examples of products with PFAS that could be absorbed through the skin, said Graham Peaslee, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame who frequently tests for PFAS in everyday products.

  14. Swifties Band Together to Show Palestinian Solidarity at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

    Erin Rossiter, one of the researchers, says that while it’s not clear the extent to which Swifties’ complaints led to the U.S. Department of Justice suing Ticketmaster and its parent company, she and her colleague “like to think and speculate” that this grassroots effort among Swifties “shed light on this issue.”

  15. Have a Boring Task to Do at Work? Don’t Just Plow Through It

    Boredom serves an important purpose, much like pain, says Casher Belinda, an assistant professor of management at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and a co-author of the research. 

  16. ‘Hybrid’ disaster response shows how localization saves lives

    Tracy Kijewski-Correa, professor of engineering and global affairs and the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development, part of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, was the lead author for the study, published in the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.

  17. Climate Change Is Putting Swelling Cities at Risk

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  18. How Colleges and Universities Are Reshaping the Science of Sport

    At the University of Notre Dame, and in partnership with the NFL, researchers are using advanced sensors, machine learning, statistical analysis, and mathematical modeling to examine the risk factors that lead to hamstring injuries. Through rigorous research, the University’s Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics – along with its Department of Athletics – hope to improve training or prevention programs by better understanding which risk factors predispose an athlete to hamstring injury.

  19. Becoming a dad comes with a lot of changes—including to your health

    "Children who grow up with invested fathers have better social, emotional, and academic outcomes than children without such fathers," says Lee Gettler, a biological anthropologist and director of the Hormones, Health, and Human Behavior Lab at the University of Notre Dame.

  20. Four things you should know: Climate change & Small Island Developing States—by the numbers

    Out of the 192 countries ranked in the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index sub-index of exposure to climate change, 10 of the 19 countries in the most exposed decile are SIDS.

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