Notre Dame Research Revealed
Shining a spotlight on the people, places, and things that power discovery
Ever picture research happening in some far-off "elsewhere" — tucked away in a lab or off at a remote field site? Notre Dame Research Revealed (#NDResearchRevealed) is here to show you where and how research, scholarship, and creative endeavor happen at the University. We're spotlighting the unseen objects, the fascinating places, and the dedicated people behind the new discoveries happening at the University of Notre Dame. Our goal is to help you meet our researchers, explore the diverse locations where they do their work, and see the instruments and processes that make their work possible.
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While combining approaches from mechanical, electrical, aerospace, and bioengineering, collaborators at Notre Dame's TIME Lab keep one goal at the center of their work: improving patients' lives. In this installment of #NDResearchRevealed, graduate students Alice Burchett and Haley Marco explain how sending cells to space and spinning them on a 3D printed device allows scientists to grow better glioblastoma copycats and advance cancer research.
How do you study something you can't see? 🤔 Protein folding, essential for all living things, happens on the nanoscale and is invisible to most microscopes. Discover how Notre Dame researchers use a spectrophotometer to shed light — literally — on protein structure. In the latest #NDResearchRevealed, Giselle Jacobson of the Biophysics Instrumentation Core Facility explains how this service works and why Notre Dame offers it to our researchers and partners.
Long before his face would appear on the $100 bill, Benjamin Franklin made money — literally. A collection of Franklin’s printed bills is housed with other rare historical currency in Rare Books and Special Collections at the Hesburgh Library. In this installment of #NDResearchRevealed learn how physicists like Khachatur Manukyan are working to discover how these valuable artifacts were made, what materials they were made from, and how we might preserve them more effectively today.
Your pupils are for much more than letting in light. The slightest dilation, contraction, or shift can provide a clue about your mental state. In this installment of #NDResearchRevealed, Matthew Robison explains how his lab uses a dozen eye trackers to decode the complex language of the pupils to learn about — and even improve — performance and attention.