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   Notre Dame Announces Collaboration with AT&T for Online Master’s Degree in Data Science

   In a data-driven economy, industry leaders rely increasingly on skilled professionals who can see the significance in data and use...

   August 30, 2016

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   Nanoparticles with a Big Environmental Impact

   Consider that a human hair is anywhere from 60,000 to 80,000 nanometers in size. A plasmonic nanoparticle, which is a...

   August 30, 2016

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   Quinn Family Provides $5 million Gift for Phase II of Innovation Park

   The late Thomas Quinn and his wife, Diane, have made a $5 million gift to the University of Notre Dame...

   August 29, 2016

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   Blue-sky Biomedical Projects Launched by New Funding

   Innovative research includes efforts to treat Parkinson’s disease, understand heart disease and strokes, tackle bacterial drug resistance Advanced Diagnostics &...

   August 29, 2016

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   Scientific Glassblowing at Notre Dame Supports Research, Discovery Across Many Fields

   When thinking about scientific discoveries, many do not consider the devices or instruments it takes to complete the research. However,...

   August 26, 2016

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   English Professor Wins ACLS Fellowship to Study Medieval Marginalia

   Kathryn Kerby-Fulton studies medieval texts, many of them on sheepskins and fragile after hundreds of years in conditions not always...

   August 25, 2016

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   Going Green is for Girls — but Branding can make Men Eco-Friendly

   Studies show that men are not as environmentally friendly as women. Let’s face it, not too many “man caves” feature...

   August 25, 2016

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   Notre Dame Students on the Front Lines of Medical Research

   Two Notre Dame undergraduate students—Anne Grisoli and Richard Felli—and two graduate students—Katelyn Ludwig and Steve Marczak—spent the summer of 2016...

   August 24, 2016

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   DOE, NSF Leaders and Low Energy Community Converge at Notre Dame to Set Priorities

   The University of Notre Dame hosted more than 230 experts at the 2016 Low Energy Community Meeting on Aug. 11-13...

   August 22, 2016

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    Uncovering a New Pathway to Halting Metastasis

    Metastasis, the process by which cancer cells leave the primary tumor and spread to other sites in the body, is...

    August 19, 2016

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    Reinterpreting the Fossil Record on Jaws

    Scientists use the fossil record to make judgments on the physiology and behavior of species. But are those interpretations correct?...

    August 18, 2016

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    Professor Kozel Examines How Precedent Can Bring Consistency to the Court

    With the country focused on selecting its next president and on who will replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,...

    August 11, 2016

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    Identifying Effective Treatments for Colon Cancer

    In recent years researchers have begun to understand that the development of colon cancer, which is the second most common...

    August 10, 2016

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    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

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    NSF Awards $15 Million to create Science Gateways Community Institute

    Sandra Gesing, Computational Scientist at the Center for Research Computing and Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at...

    August 01, 2016

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    The Pressures of Success: Why High Performers Break the Law

    Surprise success can be a good thing. But according to new research, it comes with added temptations.

    July 29, 2016

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    Network Physicist Sheds Light on Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia

    Researchers comparing mouse and macaque brains have found evidence of an evolutionary universal brain structure in mammals that enables comparisons...

    July 25, 2016

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    Researchers Make New Projections for Spread of the Zika Virus

    New research from the University of Notre Dame places a new upper limit on the total number of people who...

    July 25, 2016

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    Army Research Office Funds Research Targeting Sensors and Quality of Information

    Funded by a grant from the Army Research Office, Dong Wang, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, is studying...

    July 25, 2016

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    Cosmetic Therapy: The Link between Makeup and a Down Economy

    During tough economic times, women engage in the “lipstick effect,” stocking up on cosmetics and beauty products — a simple...

    July 20, 2016

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    Notre Dame launches New 5+1 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program backed by $1.5 Million Mellon Foundation Grant

    The University of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters has launched a new, guaranteed postdoctoral fellowship that will incentivize...

    July 14, 2016

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    How Being Sick impacts a Person’s Behavior

    Alex Perkins, Ph.D., Eck Family Assistant Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics,...

    July 14, 2016

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    Notre Dame to host Great Lakes Science Boot Camp

    More than 60 science, engineering, and medical librarians from colleges across the country will come to the Great Lakes Science...

    July 12, 2016

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    VIDEO: A Legacy of Support for Nuclear Physics at Notre Dame

    The University of Notre Dame has a long legacy of excellence in nuclear physics research, beginning in 1937 with its...

    July 12, 2016

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    Bringing Researchers from Diverse Fields onto a Single Team at the Harper Cancer Research Institute

    Introducing herself around campus in 2011, biochemist Sharon Stack sought faculty far outside her academic background. She wanted to get...

    July 08, 2016

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    Notre Dame Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships for Tackling Malaria and Cystic Fibrosis

    Two Notre Dame graduate students, Nameera Baig and Nur Mustafaoglu, have been awarded the 2016 Berry Family Foundation Graduate Fellowships...

    July 08, 2016

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    Notre Dame Law School Faculty Research Among Top Cited

    Notre Dame Law Professors Nicole Garnett and Mark McKenna were recently recognized as top-cited scholars in their respective research areas...

    July 01, 2016

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    Sustainability Students Cross Disciplinary Boundaries to Address Real-World Issues

    Notre Dame’s sustainability program, open to all majors, seeks to inspire students to cultivate practices and ways of living that...

    June 30, 2016

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    Morrison Family Education & Outreach Pavilion Dedication at ND-LEEF

    On Friday, June 10, the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initative welcomed the ND-ECI community to the dedication of the Morrison Family Education &...

    June 24, 2016

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    Creating More Effective Product Recalls by Improving Traceability

    Each year, an estimated 48 million Americans get sick — sometimes mortally — from an all-too common source: foodborne pathogens....

    June 23, 2016