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Peter Breen | Wednesday, December 7, 2022
When junior biology student Maeve Murdock, BiotechND founder and president, transferred to Notre Dame in the fall of 2021, she found a gaping hole in the University’s career development planning for undergraduates in the sciences. While Notre Dame advises sending science majors to medical school or postgraduate research, at Xavier University, where Murdock studied her
The Observer | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
On Monday, a group of 14 students and two faculty members returned from their 10-day trip exploring the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador. Jeremy Fein, professor of civil and environmental engineering and Earth sciences, and Gary Lamberti, professor of biological sciences, oversaw the excursion. Lamberti explained that this trip differed from other Notre
Bella Laufenberg | Wednesday, October 12, 2022
What if science had the ability to dip into past genes to investigate a current ailment? The results of a recent study, a collaboration between researchers at the Notre Dame genomics & bioinformatics core facility (GBCF) and the Mayo Clinic, mean that science might be headed in that direction for breast cancer and other diseases.
Bella Laufenberg | Monday, September 12, 2022
“She got a license plate that said ‘GED to Ph.D.,’” Jon Tyler said of his late wife Bella. “[The phrase] would remind her to get that Ph.D., and that it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” Gabriella (Bella) Tyler, a graduate student in David Hyde’s lab, died on Sept. 4, 2022. Bella, 33,
Bella Laufenberg | Wednesday, December 1, 2021
“I imagined myself on my deathbed thinking, ‘Oh, what did you do with your life? I made hair more shiny and beautiful’ — I couldn’t be doing that.” Santiago Schnell, the new dean of Notre Dame’s College of Science, began his career working in the beauty care department of Procter and Gamble. It was there
Siobhan Loughney | Thursday, March 18, 2021
Department of Biological Sciences chair and professor Jason Rohr has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) for his research on schistosomiasis — a tropical disease caused by a worm — and the impact of climate change on intervention strategies. One particular intervention method, by which the worm’s proliferation can be
Bella Laufenberg | Friday, February 19, 2021
Rebecca Whelan, Notre Dame associate professor of biochemistry and chemistry, recently co-authored a new study in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the CA125 biomarker found in ovarian cancer. Although this biomarker is already being used for diagnostic purposes, Whelan and her collaborators developed a new way to isolate the protein from a bodily
Bella Laufenberg | Friday, February 12, 2021
Though only published in December, Gary Belovsky began the work for his recent climate change study over 40 years ago. Freshly off his doctoral studies of calculating a model of the diet of moose in northern Michigan, Belovsky, who is currently a professor emeritus of biological sciences, moved to Montana to work on the National
Trinity Reilly | Monday, October 26, 2020
In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to a team who developed a high-resolution technique to view the inside of cells. But their technique works best on cells in petri dishes, Scott Howard, professor of electrical engineering, said, and the challenge of looking inside the cells of a living organism remained. Over the
Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Robert A. Schulz, a professor of biological sciences at Notre Dame, died Saturday, the University announced in a press release Wednesday. He was 64 years old. Schulz became a member of the Notre Dame faculty in 2007, the release said. Before joining Notre Dame, he earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina in