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   New book advances understanding of conflict’s role in contemporary U.S. society

   The recently published book Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society offers new insight into the productive and positive roles that...

   April 23, 2018

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   Dual-class firms have higher market valuations near time of IPO that drop over next six years, study finds

   New research from Martijn Cremers may have regulatory implications, and can inform the debate regarding dual-class stock financing.

   April 18, 2018

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   Professor uses cutting-edge technology to conduct ‘engaged anthropology’ at prehistoric Illinois site 

   Mark Schurr, professor and acting chair of Notre Dame’s Department of Anthropology, is dedicated to research that doesn’t just serve academic...

   April 17, 2018

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   23 students and alumni win NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awards or honorable mentions

   The fellowship provides three years of financial support in the form of $34,000 annual stipends and $12,000 cost-of-education allowances to...

   April 13, 2018

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   Multi-university collaboration developing platform to improve research reproducibility

   From engineering to biology, there is at least some concern of whether or not a given study’s results can be...

   April 10, 2018

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   Survival strategy: How one enzyme helps bacteria recover from exposure to antibiotics

   Researchers at the University of Notre Dame focused on an enzyme in gram-negative bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a pathogen that causes pneumonia and...

   April 09, 2018

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   Study links rising heroin deaths to 2010 OxyContin reformulation

   Researchers at Notre Dame and Boston University found that while prescription opioid consumption stopped rising in August 2010, heroin overdose...

   April 09, 2018

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   Collaboration focuses on restoring dignity, mobility through robotics

   A new project led by the University of Notre Dame is focusing on making exoskeletons more intuitive, using the fundamentals...

   April 09, 2018

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   Mendoza marketing professor wins research award

   Shankar Ganesan, professor and chair of the Marketing Department, won the prestigious Louis W. Stern Award, which recognizes an outstanding article published...

   April 06, 2018

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    Notre Dame researchers developing renewable energy approach for producing ammonia

    Ammonia is an essential component of fertilizers that support the world’s food production needs, and currently production relies on non-renewable fossil...

    April 04, 2018

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    Notre Dame researchers’ new violence risk assessment tool

    An article, co-authored in part by two NDIGD researchers, which details the creation of a new violence risk assessment tool...

    April 04, 2018

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    Bald eaglets born at Notre Dame environmental research facility in St. Patrick’s County Park

    Two bald eaglets have hatched at the University of Notre Dame’s Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility (ND-LEEF) in St. Patrick’s County...

    April 02, 2018

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    Supernova may have ‘burped’ before exploding

    Only by increasing the rate at which telescopes monitor the sky has it been possible to catch more Fast-Evolving Luminous...

    March 29, 2018

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    College of Arts and Letters announces new minor in data science

    The College of Arts and Letters is launching a new, interdisciplinary minor in data science. Housed in the Department of Sociology with...

    March 27, 2018

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    University of Notre Dame researcher receives Indiana CTSI postdoctoral award

    Henry Clay Conner, University of Notre Dame postdoctoral scholar, has received a Postdoctoral Training Award in Translational Research from the...

    March 26, 2018

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    Theology, ethics and…salmon? Unlikely trio finds unity in Laudato si’

    Notre Dame research by Dominic Chaloner, Bharat Ranganathan, and Fr. Terrence Ehrman, C.S.C. sought to explore the principles of integral ecology set...

    March 26, 2018

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    American studies professor named to Norman Rockwell Center’s new Society of Fellows

    Established to bring leading thinkers to the study of nearly 200 years of American illustration art, the group hopes to...

    March 23, 2018

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    Prominent women in political office boost female candidates down ballot, new research finds

    Researchers found that a state with a female governor or U.S. senator will see an increase in the proportion of women...

    March 23, 2018

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    Natural bacterial proteins may prove viable alternatives to antibiotics

    Tiny proteins found in the genomes of some types of bacteria are effective weapons against a wide range of other...

    March 20, 2018

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    Notre Dame Research announces Kobayashi Travel Fund and Library Acquisition awardees

    Five University of Notre Dame faculty members have been awarded grants from Notre Dame Research’s Internal Grants Program. Four faculty...

    March 15, 2018

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    Physics student creates computer model to study magnetic tornadoes in superconductors

    Junior Maciej Olszewski, a physics and honors mathematics major, was the lead author on a paper published in New Journal...

    March 14, 2018

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    Notre Dame researchers develop way to measure and engineer properties of liquid crystal systems

    Liquid crystals are perhaps most well known for their use in electronic displays, but many biological molecules, such as those...

    March 13, 2018

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    University of Notre Dame establishes new research center for delivering data-driven, predictive computational models

    Dramatic advances in data sciences, machine learning, and scientific computing, as well as the growing ability to collect scientific data,...

    March 08, 2018

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    Women Lead

    Progress is made in the details. The things outside the frame. On the occasion of International Women's Day 2018, meet seven...

    March 08, 2018

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    Notre Dame senior Brittany Ebeling named Michel David-Weill Laureate

    The award allows her to pursue a fully funded two-year master’s degree program at the prestigious Paris Institute of Political Studies,...

    March 07, 2018

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    Irish language and literature professor wins ACLS fellowship for research on bardic poetry

    Sarah McKibben, an associate professor of Irish language and literature, has won a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned...

    March 05, 2018

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    Mapping the burden of cholera in sub-Saharan Africa

    Sean Moore, a research assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Eck Institute for Global Health, has...

    March 05, 2018

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    Report: Climate change to bring heat, precipitation to Indiana

    As residents in Indiana continue to clean up from areas of extreme flooding, a new report focusing on how climate...

    March 02, 2018

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    Theology and science faculty to speak at Vatican conference on Laudato si’

    Celia Deane-Drummond and Jennifer Tank will participate in a Vatican conference titled “Radical Ecological Conversion after Laudato si’: Discovering the Intrinsic Value of...

    March 02, 2018

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    Joint paper on collective behaviors wins 2017 Cozzarelli Prize

    The paper titled “Three-dimensional Visualization and a Deep Learning Model Reveal Complex Fungal Parasite Networks in Behaviorally Manipulated Ants,” co-authored...

    March 02, 2018