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   School Vouchers Bring More Money to Catholic Schools — But at a Cost, Study Finds

   The study found that voucher expansion caused significant declines in church donations and church spending on non-educational religious activities.

   February 13, 2017

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   Notre Dame Researchers Study Potential Cause of Common Birth Defect

    Small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins are small peptides that get added on to other proteins to regulate their activity. While...

   February 06, 2017

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   Zika: Where are We Now?

   Professors in Notre Dame’s Department of Biological Sciences and members of the Eck Institute reflect on the outbreak, the challenges...

   February 01, 2017

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   New Study Finds Extensive Use of Fluorinated Chemicals in Fast Food Wrappers

   Previous studies have linked the chemicals to kidney and testicular cancers, thyroid disease, low birth weight and immunotoxicity in children,...

   February 01, 2017

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   Grad Student will Present New Cancer Findings at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

   Biological sciences graduate student Joshua Mason has been selected to attend the 2017 National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS) at St....

   January 30, 2017

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   Notre Dame Research announces Internal Grant Awardees

   Twenty-three faculty members were recently awarded grants through the Notre Dame Research Faculty Research Support Program. Recipients applied for either...

   January 24, 2017

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   VIDEO: Global Backgrounds, International Impact

   Learn more about the global reach and impact of the Department of History’s research in this new video, which features...

   January 20, 2017

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   Robert Adam named 15th Richard H. Driehaus Prize Laureate

   Adam, an architect known for his scholarship as well as his practice, will be awarded the $200,000 prize and a...

   January 19, 2017

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   Notre Dame Astrophysicists Discover Dimming of Binary Star

   A team of University of Notre Dame astrophysicists led by Peter Garnavich, professor of physics, has observed the unexplained fading...

   January 17, 2017

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    Annual Index Reveals Biggest Movers in Climate Change Adaptation

    The top five countries showing the biggest amount of improvement in preparedness over the last year were Ghana, Solomon Islands,...

    January 11, 2017

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    Notre Dame Astrophysicist Confirms Source of Galaxy Collision

    Vinicius Placco, a research assistant professor of astrophysics at Notre Dame, collaborated with colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...

    January 06, 2017

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    Study to Assess Climate Resiliency of More Than 250 US Cities

    The University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative has announced it will assess the climate vulnerability and readiness of every...

    December 20, 2016

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    Research Opportunities Continue to Grow through Partnership Agreements

    With record highs over the past two years in research funding and a University-wide commitment to growing its research programs,...

    December 20, 2016

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    Reuters Names Timothy Beers and Prashant Kamat 2016 Highly Cited Researchers

    Thomson Reuters has named Timothy Beers, the University of Notre Dame Chair of Astrophysics, and Prashant Kamat, the Rev. John...

    December 20, 2016

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    Datta Named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

    On Tuesday (Dec. 13) the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced its 2016 NAI Fellows, including Suman Datta, Chang Family...

    December 15, 2016

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    University of Notre Dame Awarded National Leadership Grant for Libraries

    The University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National...

    December 13, 2016

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    Notre Dame, Condé Nast Announce New Research Collaboration On Content Consumption And Deep Learning

    Partnership to develop deep learning systems to model and predict audience engagement.

    December 08, 2016

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    USAID Announces Grant To Notre Dame To Support Literacy In Haiti

    More than 30,000 children will benefit from the $6.3 million grant awarded to the University to improve early-grade literacy in...

    December 07, 2016

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    New Method Improves Stability, Extends Shelf Life Of Protein Drugs

    Gaining access to important biopharmaceuticals needed to treat illnesses and autoimmune diseases is one of the biggest obstacles developing countries...

    December 02, 2016

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    Bethlehem Star May Not Be A Star After All

    Studying historical, astronomical and biblical records, Grant Mathews believes the event that led the Magi was an extremely rare planetary...

    December 01, 2016

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    Why Don’t Patients Listen to their Doctors?

    As part of the launch of a new research program in Health-Related Behavioral Sciences, the University of Notre Dame’s Advanced...

    November 21, 2016

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    Are SIDS and Colic Related? Researchers Propose New Theory

    Notre Dame researchers suggest that the origin of both colic and SIDS may be related to the gradual emergence of...

    November 17, 2016

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    Eli Lilly Faculty Fellowship Provides Drug Discovery Experience

    Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body has an inability to produce enough insulin. In the United States...

    November 17, 2016

24. 

    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

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    VIDEO: Commitment to Real-World Impact Drives Continued Excellence in Economics Research at Notre Dame

    The Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame conducts impactful research using the best available theoretical and empirical...

    November 02, 2016

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    Stavropoulos Family Foundation makes $10M Gift to Notre Dame for Biophysical Research

    The William and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation of Midland, Michigan, has made a $10 million gift to the University of...

    October 31, 2016

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    Fighting for Better Cancer Detection

    In the United States alone, there are nearly 240,000 breast cancer diagnoses each year, and one in eight women will...

    October 28, 2016

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    Developing Biometric Identification for the Eye

    Current types of iris identification applications can confirm whether or not two eyes match, but not necessarily why that is....

    October 26, 2016

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    Notre Dame Researchers to Lead New Computing Paradigm Effort

    The new effort is expected to uncover fundamentally new ways of harnessing coupled dynamical systems for solving computationally hard problems...

    October 21, 2016

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    First-Ever National Catalog of Protest Data Gives Researchers More Complete Picture of Events

    Kraig Beyerlein and his team used hypernetwork sampling to create a catalog of protest events that occurred throughout the United...

    October 19, 2016