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Tom Naatz | Friday, May 18, 2018
When she was first accepted to Notre Dame, class of 2018 salutatorian Harisa Spahić wasn’t sure she wanted to come to the University. During the spring of her senior year of high school, the self-described “townie”, who was born in Germany to a Bosnian family and lived in Idaho before her family relocated to northern
Sarah Cate Baker | Wednesday, November 29, 2017
1. Put your decorations up as early as possible. Psychologists at the McKeown Clinic believe that people who put up Christmas decorations early are happier, and since some news outlets called them experts (fake news?), it’s believable. Alternatively, you could just never take down you Christmas decorations, and then you could be lazy and happy.
Natalie Weber | Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Junior Jean Llenos said he wanted to bridge the gap between the scientific community and the general public. So when he learned that The Health Guardians of America was looking to found a chapter at Notre Dame, he submitted an application to be the club’s founding president. “Science is very important,” he said. “We need
Sofia Madden | Friday, September 8, 2017
Since its formation in 2011, the Mike and Josie Harper Cancer Research Institute has been integrative and collaborative in its founding principles. Originally presented as an intentional partnership between the University and the Indiana School of Medicine – South Bend according to the Institutes’s website, the Institute has encouraged the fusion of differences in subject,
Stephanie Snyder | Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Saint Mary’s senior, Emily Najacht, spent eight weeks of her summer working as one of 32 interns conducting research with The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) in Palmdale, California. According to NASA’s website, SARP is a summer internship opportunity for rising undergraduate seniors that allows students hands-on
Gina Twardosz | Friday, August 18, 2017
Notre Dame College of Engineering will welcome ten Saint Mary’s students into its graduate program this year. Saint Mary’s is one of two women’s colleges in the country to offer an engineering program. Students can earn their first bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s and then a second bachelor of science in engineering from Notre Dame during
Gina Twardosz | Monday, April 24, 2017
Several Saint Mary’s students marched from Howard Park to Jon R. Hunt Memorial Plaza in South Bend’s version of the March on Science, a celebration of science and a call for science to be involved in governmental policy, on Saturday. Sophomore Teresa Brickey said in an email the March for Science calls for more funding for scientific research and
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Notre Dame researchers have developed a new strain of Tuberculosis (TB) as well as a new method to study the disease in an effort to increase the global health community’s understanding of the disease, according to a University press release. The National Institutes of Health funded the study in which Notre Dame researchers improved upon
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, April 6, 2017
When one thinks of “theoretical biophysics,” the public debate between the notions of creationism and evolutionary biology does not immediately come to mind. However, this was the finishing idea of Dr. William Bialek, a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, during his lecture last Tuesday night. Dr. Bialek is a theoretical biophysicist at Princeton University, and
Kelly McGarry | Thursday, March 23, 2017
We’ve all gone to see a movie with the wrong person: that one who has entirely too much commentary, or that one whose warm breath you can feel assaulting your eardrum as they enthusiastically whisper something unintelligible. It might be more tolerable if that person were Neil deGrasse Tyson. Thankfully, the outspoken astrophysicist gave his