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Brendan O’Shaughnessy

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The future of cancer research

A partnership being developed between the Pokagon Band and the Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) hopes to help raise awareness...

October 10, 2022
Restoring God’s Creation: How a theology professor integrates environment and economics in Uganda

As a child, Emmanuel Katongole went into the forest near his home in Uganda to draw water from the spring...

September 29, 2022
Mobile Assist: ROAM engineering lab developing powered prosthesis to aid natural movement

Grasping the railing of a stopped treadmill in the basement of Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering, Laura Light broke into an...

July 01, 2022
A Walk Through the Valley of Death: Notre Dame geologists study rocks and Earth tectonics in southwest desert

Sydney Higgins was trying to make sense of the readings from her Brunton compass at Red Rock Canyon near Las...

April 22, 2022
Ulysses Goes Global: Notre Dame celebrates 100 years of James Joyce’s masterpiece

Kevin Whelan is standing on a street corner of Merrion Square, just across the park from Notre Dame’s Dublin Global Gateway where he...

March 11, 2022
Pathogen Trackers

REDI-NET program aims to support disease surveillance for early detection of next pandemic.

February 07, 2022
Space Bubbles: Experiment on International Space Station aims to improve cancer detection

Tengfei Luo had certain hypotheses about what would happen during his scientific experiment, conducted in June aboard the International Space Station,...

August 31, 2021
Language and Learning: Celebrating 10 years of a unique educational collaboration

A dynamic partnership between the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Center for Social Concerns and local Latino community organizations has flourished...

July 27, 2021
Tending its Own Garden: Notre Dame undergrads research European view of US elections

Emilia Castelao, a junior from New Orleans, was one of 20 undergraduate students who spent much of January conducting research...

May 13, 2021
The Fan of the Moon: Clive Neal searches for new resources in lunar rocks

Clive Neal demonstrates the process of grinding the tiny samples of ash-like material collected from the surface of the Moon during...

March 23, 2021
The Inspiration Place: Writers and artists find space to create at Ireland's Kylemore Abbey

That’s the idea behind two summer programs that Notre Dame runs at the abbey in the Connemara mountains. The debut...

July 07, 2020
Retracing the Route of Freedom: Notre Dame group rides a bus to civil rights landmarks across the South

Thirty-one Notre Dame students and 13 faculty, staff and leadership fellows plunged into the latter on a bus journey of...

May 11, 2020
Renovated for a New Role: Hesburgh Library transforms layout and services for the digital age

Fifty years later, the University began a major renovation project by looking back at Father Hesburgh’s original vision before re-imagining the library’s...

April 23, 2020
Corona Stories: Notre Dame students share diverse pandemic experiences in their words

Notre Dame students left for spring break and were shocked to hear on March 11 that classes were going online. They...

April 13, 2020
Arts and Letters research provides complementary angles on childhood adversity

Notre Dame psychologist Kristin Valentino believes that helping kids identify and express their emotions with their mothers helps children to develop...

December 10, 2019
Super Resolution Ghosts: ND Engineer discovers new imaging methods for cell research

During his postdoctoral research, Notre Dame electrical engineer Scott Howard wanted to produce more precise images of the activity within a cell...

October 04, 2019
Face to face: Arts and Letters community-based classes help students learn Spanish

While there are more than 200 community-based classes across Notre Dame, few faculty members have jumped in with more commitment...

June 14, 2019
Cyber sleuths: Arts and Letters students get real-world police experience as tech crime interns

Through the Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies (CDT) program, six students are interning in the St. Joseph County Cyber Crimes Unit,...

January 10, 2019
Serendipity: Chance meeting connects child with student engineers

Notre Dame’s e-NABLE group had searched in vain for nearly a year for a child in need of an artificial...

May 25, 2018
Master Builders: Hessert machinists create precision parts for research

When air speeds inside a hypersonic wind tunnel are expected to reach 4,000 miles per hour, the crafting of the...

November 20, 2017
Homemade Poison: Notre Dame Health Experts respond to Lead Crisis

Brittany Griffith and her husband, David, believed that buying their first house on the near northwest side of South Bend...

July 12, 2017
Super Speed

In 1882, an ambitious Notre Dame student named Albert Zahm built what might have been the first wind tunnel in...

February 15, 2017
Notre Dame Scientists Study the Past to Predict Climate Change

A chance meeting a decade ago in a graduate school hallway led paleoecologist Jason McLachlan to create a Jurassic Park-like...

January 31, 2017
Limitless: Mission to Mars

Two-thirds of the way through the longest open-ocean leg of a circumnavigation of the world, Notre Dame alumna Dava Newman...

November 03, 2016
A Personal Vendetta against Cancer

These days, Page-Mayberry funnels that passion into her job as the tissue bank consent coordinator for the Mike and Josie...

August 03, 2016
Building a better phone

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
At the Crossroads
Psychology: “Pushing Back the Shadows of Ignorance”

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/140893/lapsley300.jpg(Daniel Lapsley)!Daniel Lapsley A famous psychological test asks children to sit in a room with a marshmallow or cookie...

September 10, 2014