News: December 2018

A study from the University of Notre Dame has found that the properties of a material commonly used to create...

December 20, 2018

The Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame recently received the first wave of findings from its involvement in...

December 19, 2018

The latest in a long line of Notre Dame-backed programs and initiatives aimed at improving educational outcomes for primary and...

December 19, 2018

Together, researchers from Notre Dame and Clemson are breaking down the causes of health epidemics, expanding our knowledge of planet...

December 19, 2018

Fifteen collaborative research grants were awarded to Notre Dame faculty and research partners around the world. Notre Dame International released...

December 17, 2018

The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) has completed a new, five-year strategic plan, which will be implemented between the...

December 17, 2018

Professor Jennifer Tank, in the Department of Biological Sciences, and Professor Graham Peaslee, in the Department of Physics, were both...

December 17, 2018

Sarah Quesada's research and teaching interests include 20th and 21st century Latinx and Latin American literatures, Francophone West African literature,...

December 14, 2018

With a Side of Knowledge is a podcast produced by the Office of the Provost at the University of Notre...

December 14, 2018

Christian Smith, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame, has won the Society for the Scientific...

December 14, 2018

Rebecca Tinio McKenna, Sarah McKibben and Vincent Phillip Muñoz have been offered fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities in...

December 14, 2018

Toroczkai and collaborators have been working toward developing a novel mathematical approach that will help advance computation beyond the digital...

December 12, 2018

In the past three years alone, Notre Dame student Mary Elsa Henrichs’ passions for theatre, English literature, and German have...

December 12, 2018

The second annual Gold Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart and the Charles Edison Lecture Series-sponsored lecture that...

December 12, 2018

PR Daily has recognized the University of Notre Dame’s Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility (ND-LEEF) as part of their Digital PR...

December 12, 2018

Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, Professor of Theology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace...

December 11, 2018

The brain, one of the largest and most complex organs in the human body, is about the size of a...

December 11, 2018

Peter Burns, Henry J. Massman professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Energy and director of the Actinide Center...

December 11, 2018

Senior Mary Ninneman has been to Thailand, Greece, and Washington, D.C., studying the causes and effects of human trafficking —...

December 11, 2018

The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship has been awarded to five Notre Dame students who will...

December 11, 2018

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recognized four University of Notre Dame faculty members for their excellence in research with...

December 10, 2018

In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, scientists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered...

December 05, 2018

The University of Notre Dame and the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute (IBRI) have signed a strategic alliance agreement to encourage...

December 05, 2018

A new study conducted by researchers at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre...

December 04, 2018

COSE-JAM highlights the achievements of graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. The event helps them foster interdisciplinary research and interactions, develop...

December 04, 2018

Professor Alejandra Gonza, a visiting scholar who is spending the fall semester at Notre Dame Law School, will speak to...

December 04, 2018

Ferroelectric materials have the potential to improve a number of characteristics of electronic devices, including memory and power efficiency. However,...

December 04, 2018

For Christopher Chowrimootoo, there’s nothing unusual about a musicologist teaching in the Great Books program. That’s because, like his research,...

December 04, 2018

They are the University’s eighth and ninth Marshall Scholars overall and two of 10 Notre Dame students awarded one of...

December 03, 2018

Estimating investment returns is tricky — especially, to paraphrase an old Danish saying, when dealing with the future. Still, it...

December 03, 2018