News by William G. Gilroy

  1. Continuing the search for gravitational waves

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/194505/original/lbt_telescope_800x480.jpg(LBT (Large Binocular Telescope))! In February, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced it had detected gravitational waves for the first...

  2. Why not recycled concrete?

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/190072/200x/queens_ny_300.jpg(Queens, NY)! From paper towels to cups to plastic bottles, products made from recycled materials permeate our lives. One...

  3. Corporate philanthropy can have a positive impact on employees

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/188500/200x/philanthropy_300.jpg(Philanthropy)! Corporate philanthropy benefits organizations in many ways: Giving enhances a business’s reputation and strengthens a business’s efforts toward...

  4. Can performance brands cause a placebo effect?

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/187416/200x/golf_putt_300.jpg(Golf putt)! From the middle-school child considering the premier brands of soccer shoes, to the college graduate weighing which...

  5. Momentum builds for creation of 'moon villages'

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/185783/200x/crneal_300.jpg(Clive Neal)! Villages on the moon, constructed through cooperation between astronauts and robotic systems on the lunar surface, could...

  6. Obesity contributes to metastasis in ovarian cancer patients

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/184036/200x/harper_cancer_research_300.jpg(Harper Cancer Center)! "M. Sharon Stack":http://harpercancer.nd.edu/people/sharon-stack/, Ann F. Dunne and Elizabeth Riley Director of the HCRI and professor of...

  7. New finding offers hope for diabetic wound healing

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/152919/200x/maylandchang_300.jpg(Mayland Chang)! University of Notre Dame researchers have discovered a compound that accelerates diabetic wound healing, which may open...

  8. Physicist Jay LaVerne named AAAS fellow

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/182968/jaylaverne_200.jpg(Jay LaVerne)! "Jay LaVerne":http://rad.nd.edu/people/faculty/jay-a-laverne/, professional specialist in the University of Notre Dame’s "Radiation Laboratory":http://rad.nd.edu/ and a concurrent research professor...

  9. WHO's LF elimination program is not enough

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/159068/200x/haiti_program_300.jpg(Haiti Program MDA)! More than 1 billion people in tropical and subtropical countries are at risk for lymphatic filariasis...

  10. Scientists detect wasps evolving into new species

    p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/182189/200x/wasp_300.jpg(Wasp)! Scientists have observed three species of wasps evolving into three new species, an intriguing case of rapid evolution...