Erika Holmbeck '20 Ph.D. has been awarded the NASA Hubble Fellowship, a highly competitive fellowship renewable for up to three years that will allow her to continue her research on the origin of the universe’s heaviest elements.
On March 24, during a live virtual event on Zoom, Interim Dean Michael Hildreth honored two faculty members who received the highest awards bestowed by the college. Dan Gezelter, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, is the recipient of the 2020 Father James L. Shilts, C.S.C./Doris and Gene Leonard Teaching Award. This award, bestowed...
Led by the University of Notre Dame and implemented by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), the AEGIS research team will begin the first of four planned trials in Kenya.
The pair were recently accepted to the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the oldest medical school in Florida and among the top 40 in the U.S. for NIH funding.
Clive Neal demonstrates the process of grinding the tiny samples of ash-like material collected from the surface of the Moon during an Apollo space mission in 1972. His graduate student, Jessika Valenciano, will prepare the minute Moon rocks from the other 19 canisters that arrived on campus in December to measure...
A growing number of local startups are tapping into an important funding source that has brought more than $7.5 million to South Bend-Elkhart startups over the past year and a half: the federal government’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.
L. Arielle Phillips, research assistant professor in the Department of Physics, has been named assistant dean in the College of Science.
The Notre Dame Alumni Association announced its second annual Domer Dozen cohort, honoring 12 graduates ages 32 and younger for significant contributions in their fields, as well as in service to others. The Domer Dozen program is the signature initiative of YoungND…
Dr. Dominic Vachon treats empathy as an essential component of medical training — to improve health outcomes and ease burnout among caregivers.
As the nation moves into another year and a new phase of the pandemic — grappling with variants and continued vaccination efforts — experts at the University of Notre Dame reflect on what they believe are the biggest scientific takeaways from the past year and weigh in on what the...
Michael Piotrowski was one of the few students in the sustainability minor able to do field research in the summer of 2020, as he tracked the elusive rough-seeded fameflower (Phemeranthus rugospermus) across Indiana.
Research from the lab of Jason Rohr, the Ludmilla F., Stephen J. and Robert T. Galla College Professor of Biological Sciences, and collaborators, published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), demonstrated significant findings about when to target interventions that control the spread of the tropical disease...
