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  1. Gary partners with Notre Dame for 10-year downtown master plan

    July 24, 2024

    The city of Gary is partnering with faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture to reimagine and revitalize its downtown Broadway corridor over the next 10 years, city officials announced Tuesday.

  2. Gary launches partnership with Notre Dame for downtown revitalization

    July 24, 2024

    The city of Gary Tuesday launched the first phase of its downtown revitalization project in collaboration with the Notre Dame School of Architecture’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative.

  3. Forests alleviate hunger and boost sustainability, study finds

    July 24, 2024

    Forests can reduce hunger in rural households while also capturing carbon and advancing sustainability goals for low- and middle-income countries, according to new research by Daniel C. Miller, associate professor of environmental policy at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.

  4. Gary partners with Notre Dame to reinvigorate its downtown core

    July 24, 2024

    “This team has the insights, instincts and expertise, and the city has members of the community who know what the city was before it suffered its losses. They know what makes Gary, Gary.”

  5. Forests Can Feed Local Communities As Well As Capture Carbon, Study Finds

    July 23, 2024

    The research was conducted by Daniel C. Miller, associate professor of environmental policy at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.

  6. Cutting marketing spending often backfires on businesses – new research could help investors distinguish shortsighted cuts from smart ones

    July 22, 2024

    Andre Martin, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame

  7. Notre Dame and Gary form partnership

    July 19, 2024

    Gary Mayor Eddie Melton has been working hard to revitalize his city and he now has a new partner. Melton and other city officials will announce the details next week on July 23. They will be joined by Marianna Cusato, Director of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative.

  8. Proof-of-principle study shows protein isoform inhibitors may hold the key to making opioids safer

    July 17, 2024

    “We took isoform-selected inhibitors that we got from our collaborator, Brian Blagg, Ph.D., at the University of Notre Dame, and gave them to mice systemically via IV injection,” Streicher said. 

  9. Winner of the 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize Discusses His Research in Sustainability Science

    July 16, 2024

    Jason Rohr, Galla Professor and chair of the department of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, is one of three winners of the 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize, a global scientific competition that celebrates breakthroughs in sustainability science. We sat down with Rohr to talk about his work — which focuses on disease, food, and water challenges in Africa — and the future of sustainability.

  10. New research indicates fatherhood changes men’s brains

    July 15, 2024

    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.

  11. Cosmic 'Timekeepers' May Have Brought Dark Matter to Light

    July 15, 2024

    Scientists may have detected evidence of dark matter lurking in the shadows of the universe using the help of incredibly fast-spinning neutron stars, according to new research.

  12. Tiny implants fight cancer with light

    July 11, 2024

    “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. 

  13. Miniature, implantable LED device fights cancer with light

    July 10, 2024

    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.

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

    July 10, 2024

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

  15. Partnership seeks to bolster factory-built housing industry

    July 10, 2024

    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.

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

    July 10, 2024

    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.

  17. How leaders can improve their strategic decision-making

    July 10, 2024

    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.

  18. Implantable Wireless LED Device Promises to Destroy Cancer Cells

    July 10, 2024

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

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

    July 05, 2024

    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. 

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

    July 02, 2024

    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.