Notre Dame Science
Notre Dame Science is the magazine of the College of Science, featuring faculty and student research, education, and news across the college. The digital version of the magazine allows readers to flip through each page and experience interactive content such as videos and links that complement each story. Viewers can enlarge sections, download and pass interesting sections onto other people.
Scientia
Scientia is a completely student-run publication. Scientia recognizes and encourages high-quality undergraduate research, provides a forum through which students can gain the essential skills of writing and reviewing to fulfill their future goals, and contributes to the advancement and cohesiveness of Notre Dame's scientific community.
Undergraduate Studies
The College of Science is a community of innovators working in collaboration for the common good. What hasn't changed since our founding in 1865—and never will—is the University’s unwavering commitment to its Catholic character and the college's mission to prepare tomorrow's scientific leaders to think big while also inspiring them to make a difference and to share their knowledge and discoveries in ways that encourage collaboration, advance learning, and contribute to the common good.
View the interactive Undergraduate Studies booklet
Undergraduate Studies booklet (3.21MB PDF)
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)
The possibilities for undergraduate research are almost endless, often limited only by the student’s imagination. Some students conduct original research on campus during the academic year while others conduct research through numerous other programs, both on campus and around the world. Beyond engaging in scientific research, the University of Notre Dame students communicate the results of their research through presentations and publications, and deepened their own experience, knowledge, and preparation for life after their undergraduate years.
View the interactive SURF booklet
Fighting Cancer
Our widely known and highly regarded athletic teams are known as the "Fighting Irish" for their fierce determination. There is another team on campus that is engaged in its own fight, the outcome of which affects us all. That fight is against cancer. That team-fiercely determined to win- is the faculty at the College of Science. We are fighting cancer in all of its forms and on all fronts, including prevention, detection, and treatment.
The researchers profiled in this book have dedicated their lives to helping people they will never meet to live happier, healthier, and longer lives.
Fighting Cancer: Cancer Research at the University of Notre Dame (3.35MB PDF)
Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are making groundbreaking research discoveries in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. Understanding all aspects of the nervous system, including development, function, and regeneration, is one of the biggest challenges of the modern scientific era.
The goal of the interdisciplinary research at Notre Dame into the structure and function of the brain and nervous system is to discover the molecular and cellular basis of neurological disorders, and identify pharmaceutical and behavioral treatments for issuers pertaining to the nervous system.
Neurodegenerative Disease Research in the College of Science (544kb PDF)
Our Catholic Character
Scientific research and interdisciplinary dialogue at Notre Dame take place within a thriving, evolving community of people engaged in expanding our understanding of the real universe in which we live. This enterprise takes shape in the context of the living tradition of the University, which takes seriously its commitment to maintain both its Catholicity and its academic integrity and contributes to that tradition as we move into the future.
Our Catholic Character (676 kb)
Road to Discovery
For the past three summers, Dean Greg Crawford has embarked on a cross-country bike ride to raise awareness for Niemann-Pick Type C disease. The ride demonstrates Notre Dame's commitment to research to find treatments and a cure for the devastating neurodegenerative disease that took the lives of three grandchildren of Coach Ara Parseghian. Dean Crawford keeps a blog on the road and documents his journey in the Road to Discovery books.
Cultural Passport
Are you new to the Notre Dame community and South Bend? Get to know your new home with the Cultural Passport (2.03MB PDF).