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Biological Sciences graduate student selected to attend National Graduate Student Symposium at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Author: Cliff Djajapranata

Every spring, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital hosts the National Graduate Student Symposium (NGSS). The Symposium is held for the nation’s top Ph.D. students to present their work and learn more about St. Jude’s advanced research and facilities, which is located in Memphis, Tenn. This year, among more than 1500...
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Dovichi Honored with 2018 AES Lifetime Achievement Award

Author: Rebecca Hicks

  Norman Dovichi, Grace-Rupley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected as the 2018 winner of the American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Lifetime Achievement Award.  The award will be presented at SciX 2018 in October in Atlanta, Georgia.
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University of Notre Dame establishes new research center for delivering data-driven, predictive computational models

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Dramatic advances in data sciences, machine learning, and scientific computing, as well as the growing ability to collect scientific data, has led to a need for improved predictive modeling and design of complex systems. In order to better characterize the predictability of computational models and product performance, a new research...
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Mapping the burden of cholera in sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Gene Stowe

Sean Moore, a research assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Eck Institute for Global Health, has coauthored a paper mapping the incidence of cholera in Africa, a critical step in the World Health Organization’s goal of reducing cholera deaths by 90 percent over the next decade.
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Preparing the Next Generation of Cancer Research Leaders

Author: M. Sharon Stack, PhD

Our vision at the HCRI is to be a preeminent cancer research institute that effectively combines research, education and outreach to address the major challenges in cancer research, provide training opportunities for the next generation of oncology researchers, and to serve the greater good in the global community.  It is...
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Joint paper on collective behaviors wins 2017 Cozzarelli Prize

Author: Nina Welding

The paper titled “Three-dimensional Visualization and a Deep Learning Model Reveal Complex Fungal Parasite Networks in Behaviorally Manipulated Ants,” co-authored by David Hughes, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University, and Danny Z. Chen, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame), has been selected as one...
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Biophysicist Patricia Clark awarded $1.1M Keck grant for protein folding study

Author: Deanna Csomo McCool

Patricia Clark, Rev. John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C., Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a $1.1 million, four-year grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop an innovative approach to replicate in test tubes a universal component of protein folding within cells.

Follow up on Rare and Neglected Disease Day 2018

Author: Barb Calhoun

This year’s Rare Disease Day Conference started strong on Friday, February 9th, with exceptional research talks along with patient perspectives on the importance of research for Rare…
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Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Travel Fellowships (SCReM-TF), 2018

Author: Laurie Gregory

The Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine will provide partial support for Notre Dame graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to attend research conferences in 2018. Funds that were raised from Notre Dame Day in 2017 will be used to support these travel fellowships.
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Smallest-scale work in electrochemistry leads to sizable research strides

Author: Deanna Csomo McCool

At a few billionths of a meter, a nanopore is too tiny to see and too tiny to image easily. These miniscule cavities, when created in synthetic materials, are incredibly powerful. One of Notre Dame’s research groups is among the earliest to investigate electron transfer reactions inside nanopores, and therefore...
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Physicist awarded $1.4M to continue work at CERN

Author: Deanna Csomo McCool

University of Notre Dame physicist Mitchell Wayne was awarded $1.4 million for continued work on the Phase I upgrade of the Compact Muon Solenoid Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
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Harper Cancer Research Institute hosts Walther Cancer Foundation Symposium

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Faculty from the University of Notre Dame will present their research at the Walther Cancer Foundation Symposium on Friday, Feb. 2 to Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. The two-day event is hosted by the Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) and will take place at the Eck Visitors Center.
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NDnano announces new center director

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Alan Seabaugh, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering, has been named the director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano). As the new director, he will lead a center that supports more than seventy NDnano-affiliated faculty members from across nine departments in the Colleges...