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Notre Dame receives “one-of-a-kind” NAUTILUS system from U.S. Navy

Nolan Hines | Thursday, September 14, 2023

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) recently moved to transfer its groundbreaking NAUTILUS system to Notre Dame, signing an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) that transferred all rights, title and interest in the instrument to the University. The measure required approval by Congress. NAUTILUS, otherwise known as Naval Ultra-Trace Isotope Laboratory Universal Spectrometer, has been revolutionary

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SMC professors showcase research on South Bend’s pandemic experience

Samantha Gebert | Thursday, September 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the St. Joseph County Library hosted “How We Remember the COVID-19 Pandemic: reflections from South Bend Oral History Project,” lead by two Saint Mary’s professors, Julia Dauer and Jamie Wagman. This event showcased how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the members of the South Bend community through a series of audio clips from interviews.

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Jenkins addresses faculty on strategic framework, AAU acceptance

Liam Kelly and Beau Steller | Wednesday, September 6, 2023

During his annual address to the faculty Tuesday, University president Fr. John Jenkins highlighted the recently released “Notre Dame 2033: Strategic Framework” and celebrated Notre Dame’s recent acceptance into the Association of American Universities (AAU). Jenkins described the day he received a call from Barbara Snyder, president of the AAU, describing Notre Dame’s acceptance into

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From the Future: AI Part II – Unexpected applications

Spencer Kelly | Friday, February 10, 2023

In our inaugural edition, From the Future looked at AI research at Notre Dame related to broad philosophical, political and practical issues. This week, we profile three Notre Dame researchers using AI for unusual or unexpected applications in fields as diverse as peace studies, science and the humanities. These projects demonstrate how AI disruption will

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New research uncovers academic disparities among straight, LGBTQ+ students

Gabrielle Beechert | Thursday, February 17, 2022

Notre Dame assistant professor of sociology Joel Mittleman recently published research addressing education disparities among gay, straight and bisexual students, and how these disparities also exist among gender, birth cohort and race. According to Mittleman, it seems that women have always performed better in school than their male counterparts. But Mittleman found that the group

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Research team determines process for regenerating neurons in the eye

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

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Notre Dame faculty, grad students search for answers in the Andromeda galaxy’s halo

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,

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Students discuss cancelled field placements, internships, research

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

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Notre Dame receives record-breaking research grant for disease prevention

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

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Notre Dame engineers research exoskeleton technology

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

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