The Research Like a Champion (RLAC) program has just launched its Facebook page!   The RLAC program is a collaborative effort between the College of Science and Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI…

Notre Dame junior Katie Portman spent summer 2015 doing archaeological fieldwork while living on the M.V. Pitsiulak, a 50-foot longliner, off the coast of subarctic Canada. Despite weather issues, engine malfunctions, and permit-related delays, the experience caused her to fall...

This past weekend, the University of Notre Dame – in conjunction with the Boler-Parseghian Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases – hosted its annual Rare Disease Conference. This was a two-day event covering both laboratory science and benchtop research discoveries...

As Kim Lisiak ’13 approached the diving platform, the noises of the crowded aquatic center took on a distant quality. The powerful arms slicing through water, the cheers, the buzzers, and the whistles receded. The world in her head went...

The University of Notre Dame’s Edwin Michael, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, is on the cutting edge of an initiative to address the sociology of disease transmission and control, by factoring...

Shark Tank star explains why women are great entrepreneurs.

Biochemistry graduate student Carolyn Shirey has been selected to attend the 2017 National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS) at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Selection in the NGSS is extraordinarily competitive as application is by invitation only. Over...

Paul Bohn, Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, has been selected as the winner of the 2017 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry. This prestigious award recognizes a scientist...

Amanda Hummon, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and member of the Harper Cancer Research Institute, has been appointed to the board of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) as Member at Large for Publications....

Last summer (2016), two high school student interns in the lab of Matthew Leevy were tasked with finding a “cool” specimen on which to practice and learn CT scanning.  Their idea: gather flowers near Touchdown Jesus and Notre Dame Stadium...

 Small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins are small peptides that get added on to other proteins to regulate their activity. While SUMO has many regulatory roles in cells, it is especially important for controlling gene expression during early development. Just a...

NDnano is hosting a one-day symposium on Thursday, ​March 30 entitled "Nanotechnology in the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders." The keynote will be given by Kevin Tracey, M.D., President & CEO of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. Students are welcome and...

Flourish3D is a startup company that provides crystal flora to florists and gift shops, with profits going toward research at the Harper Cancer Research Institute. 

It’s been one year since the World Health Organization declared Zika a public health emergency. The virus, transmitted through the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has since been declared to be a long-term problem rather than an emergency, but Zika continues to...

Last summer (2016), two high school student interns in the lab of Matthew Leevy were tasked with finding a “cool” specimen on which to practice and learn CT scanning.  Their idea: gather flowers near Touchdown Jesus and Notre Dame Stadium...

Pinar Zorlutuna and a team of University researchers have created a new type of diode, one that is made entirely of cardiac muscle cells and fibroblasts. Their recently published paper titled “Muscle-Cell-Based ‘Living Diodes’” discusses how using muscle cells as...

Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF) Award for Best Imaging Publication 2016   The amount of time that is invested in a research experiment and bench work that is involved in gathering data often can easily be overlooked and underappreciated...

In April, the University of Notre Dame will host the annual Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) career conference. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, EYH is geared toward middle-school girls and includes hands-on activities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). During the...

The compressor test will study aerodynamic phenomena that even the most powerful computers cannot simulate.

Imagine bringing the magic of a Disney theme park to the Notre Dame campus. Students in Scott Shim’s Collaborative Product Development course recently took on that challenge—with great success. A team of four students from that class has made the finals...