Media Mentions: 2024

2023 2024 2025

  1. Notre Dame professor talks about brain cancer research and its journey into space

    Meenal Datta has been working at Notre Dame for two and a half years. Earlier this year, her team was invited to use their research on glioblastoma in the ISS.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  2. Notre Dame professor to advance brain cancer research aboard International Space Station

    A SpaceX launch Thursday afternoon aims to advance brain cancer scholarship by University of Notre Dame researchers by bringing an experimental study to the International Space Station. When it lifts off Thursday afternoon around 4:55 p.m. from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft will carry the materials and methods for Notre Dame professor Meenal Datta's study on glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  3. A unanimous Supreme Court restores Trump to the Colorado ballot

    Derek Muller, an election law professor at Notre Dame, said in a statement the Supreme Court decision today "shuts the door on any exclusion of Trump from the ballot in any state, either in the primary or the general."

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  4. Opinion | The Case for Slow-Walking Our Use of Generative AI

    James M. Lang is a professor of practice at the University of Notre Dame’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence. His most recent book is Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It, published by Basic Books. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  5. PFAS chemicals to be phased out of food packaging. Here’s how to avoid them.

    The FDA’s announcement “is a huge win for the public,” said Graham Peaslee, a physics professor at the University of Notre Dame who frequently tests for PFAS in everyday products.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  6. The World May Be Entering a Much Bloodier Era

    The Institute for Economics and Peace has identified the Sahel as one of its ecological threat hot spots, and according to Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative’s index, all six countries in the region rank among the least prepared places in the world.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.