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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

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   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

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    Aprahamian to Co-chair U.S. Electron Ion Collider Facility Study

    Ani Aprahamian, Freimann Professor of Physics, has been named co-chair of a committee with the National Academy of Science on...

    October 17, 2016

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    Fighting to Protect the Innocent

    “We have found you and we have given you time to enter the [gang]. You have had two opportunities to...

    October 17, 2016

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    Notre Dame Researchers to Lead NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Study

    The study will focus on the apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, and the parasitoid wasps that attack the fly.

    October 14, 2016

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    Collaboration Yields New Understanding of How to Build Metamaterials for Cloaking

    A collaboration between Jon Camden, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, David Masiello of the University...

    October 12, 2016

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    Shogren Wins EPA Graduate Fellowship

    Biological sciences doctoral candidate, Arial Shogren, has been awarded the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Fellowship from the U.S....

    October 06, 2016

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    Printing Metal for Efficient Manufacturing

    Three-dimensional printing, also known as additive manufacturing, isn’t just for plastics. In fact, Notre Dame researchers are working to 3D...

    October 06, 2016

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    It Takes a Village: How Crowdsensing Can Help Ensure Safe Drinking Water

    Water quality is not an issue affecting only urban water treatment systems. More than 15 million U.S. households rely on...

    September 28, 2016

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    David R. Hyde & Team awarded Over $1.9M from the NIH as Part of the Effort to Reverse Blindness

    Dr. David Hyde and his team have been awarded over $1.9 million from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to...

    September 28, 2016

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    Finalists selected for Notre Dame's 2016 Undergraduate Nanotech Research Competition

    The Center for Nano Science and Technology at the University of Notre Dame (NDnano) will host 13 finalists who have been selected...

    September 26, 2016

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    Fighting to Explore the Moon

    It was the middle of the night when Clive Neal was shaken awake by his father so they could watch...

    September 23, 2016

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    Jay LaVerne joins U.S. Department of Energy “Dream Team” to aid in Nuclear Waste Cleanup

    ND Energy affiliated faculty member, Jay LaVerne, professional specialist and concurrent professor of radiation physics, has joined a “dream team”...

    September 23, 2016

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    Notre Dame High Energy Physics Group receives $2.77 Million NSF Grant

    The high energy physics group at Notre Dame recently received a 3-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...

    September 20, 2016

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    Expressing the Value of Data Science in an ROI Framework

    In a recent paper published in EPJ Data Science, University of Notre Dame researchers study how organizations can quantify decision...

    September 19, 2016

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    Fighting For Lasting Peace

    For five decades, the Colombian government, paramilitary groups and drug cartels have been at war causing more than 200,000 casualties and more than...

    September 16, 2016

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    LEO’s James Sullivan Presents Homelessness Prevention Study on Capitol Hill

    James Sullivan, Rev. Thomas J. McDonagh, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Economics and co-founder of the Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities...

    September 16, 2016

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    How Stress Gets Under the Skin

    How people react to stress – both psychologically and physically – can have implications for a person’s health and well-being, including...

    September 16, 2016

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    Detailed Age Map Shows How Milky Way Came Together

    Using colors to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the Milky Way’s halo, University of Notre...

    September 07, 2016

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    Notre Dame Interdisciplinary Researchers Receive $1.1M Grant from NIH

    Notre Dame researchers representing four labs across two colleges at the University have received a four-year, $1.1 million Research Project...

    September 07, 2016

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    Clues in Ancient Mud Hold Answers to Climate Change

    From the depths of Lake Malawi, Melissa Berke has helped uncover evidence that offers new insights into a long-held theory...

    September 02, 2016

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    College of Engineering Appoints Faculty Co-directors of Maturing Wireless Institute

    To respond effectively to the exciting climate that surrounds current wireless research and development, Bertrand Hochwald and J. Nicholas Laneman...

    September 02, 2016

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    Researchers to Pursue Novel Zika Solution

    A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) has received a grant...

    September 01, 2016