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-10 posts tagged "academic research"
Serena Zacharias | Monday, October 12, 2020
When professor of biology David Hyde and his lab first discovered that zebrafish could regenerate a part of their eye when damaged in the late 1990s, they sought to discover the mechanisms that govern this process. Twenty-five years later, through a collaboration between researchers at Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University and the University of
Christopher Parker | Thursday, September 10, 2020
Every night in September of 2017, graduate student Michelle Berg sat on her laptop in Indiana controlling a telescope in West Virginia. Berg had trained for a week on-site to maneuver the massive single-dish Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the largest steerable radio telescope on the planet. “One of the days they were actually doing maintenance,
Genevieve Coleman | Wednesday, April 15, 2020
In the wake of campus closure due to the coronavirus, many Saint Mary’s students have lost access to both research opportunities, and the ability to finish field work placements required to complete their majors. Senior social work major Marie Burke was placed at South Bend’s Riley High School, assisting the school’s social worker twice a
Grace McDermott | Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Notre Dame recently received a record-breaking grant of $33.7 million to conduct research on the prevention of mosquito-borne diseases using a new spatial repellent product that works to reduce mosquito densities and fight diseases like malaria, dengue, Zika and chikungunya. Unitaid, an international health organization, agreed to fund the five-year project after a long and
Mary Clare Donnelly | Monday, December 3, 2018
Notre Dame engineers Patrick Wensing, an assistant professor of engineering, and second-year Ph.D. student Taylor Gambon are working in collaboration with a company to improve exoskeletons — wearable mobile machines meant to support the body. “It is a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation in collaboration with a company called Ekso Bionics that
Talia Brierly | Thursday, October 25, 2018
How does one find research opportunities? Many College of Science students ask this question. In fact, Dr. Sheryl Lu, director of undergraduate research for the College of Science, said this is the most common question undergraduate students ask her about research. Each year, the first Thursday after fall break, the College of Science answers this
Maria Leontaras | Friday, April 13, 2018
Saint Mary’s will host the second Symposium of Research and Creative Scholarship, showcasing scholarly work of students and faculty alike from a variety of departments, Friday. Laura Williamson Ambrose, department chair of Humanistic Studies and coordinator of the event, said the event was inspired by a colloquium series where Saint Mary’s faculty members could present their
Megan Valley | Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Notre Dame graduate students from the Colleges of Arts and Letters, Engineering and Science will present their research in the final round of Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) on Wednesday night in the Jordan Auditorium in a competition to win $1,000. Evan Bryson, communications specialist for the graduate school and publicity coordinator for 3MT Notre Dame, said the competition provided
Henry Gens | Monday, April 14, 2014
Notre Dame professor of physics Boldizsár Jankó’s work with quantum properties of a nanoscale superconductor-ferromagnet system was recently published in “Nature Scientific Reports.” “It’s an example of taking two materials that are very different ⎯ superconductors have zero resistance, they expel magnetic fields, [and] they get weaker,” Jankó said. “Ferromagnets are anything but that ⎯
Madison Jaros | Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Many Notre Dame students chose to forego traveling back home or relaxing on the beach this spring break, deciding instead to spend the week pursuing academic research or volunteering. Over the break, 10 students traveled to Birmingham, Ala., to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, an organization that constructs homes for those in need. The students