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2020 Naughton awardees announced

Author: Joanne Fahey

Twenty-three students and faculty have been announced as awardees of the Naughton Fellowships for 2020.
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Common cholesterol drugs could slow spread of breast cancer to brain

Author: Deanna Csomo McCool

A new study from the University of Notre Dame shows drugs used to treat high cholesterol could interfere with the way breast cancer cells adapt to the microenvironment in the brain, preventing the cancer from taking hold.
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Dye Boosts Bioimaging Capability

Author: Sarah Chapman

 Fluorescence imaging has been a boon to research and medicine because of its ability to examine affected areas noninvasively. But the dyes used for these purposes have their disadvantages, and as resolution needs have grown stronger, the stakes for accuracy have increased exponentially.  …
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Understand and Fight: Notre Dame researchers and the COVID-19 pandemic

Author: Deanna Csomo McCool

The hero in Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man,” her second sweeping political science fiction after “Frankenstein,” is left alone in Rome, in a post-apocalyptic world. A global plague apparently took the lives of everyone else, yet he discerns a duty to forge ahead, no matter what. Published in…
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Mary Galvin: It is more meaningful to ask what we can do to end intolerance

Author: College of Science

Mary E. Galvin, William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science, addressed the issue of inequality with the students, faculty, and staff of the college: Like many of you, I am deeply saddened by the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and by this...
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Webber receives 2020 NSF CAREER Award

Author: Nina Welding

The purpose of the project, “Dissipative non-equilibrium supramolecular hydrogels using fuels,” is to create a new material paradigm at the intersection of supramolecular chemistry and soft materials. He and his team will be studying materials and systems that exhibit transient states and enable properties of material formation in the presence of a fuel...

Spring 2020 The Warren Roundup

Author: Warren Family Center

2020 Warren Newsletter Originally published by Warren Family Center at "drugdiscovery.nd.edu":https://drugdiscovery.nd.edu/news/spring-2020-the-warren-roundup/…
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Rare penile cancer requires a combination of cancer treatments

Author: Deanna Csomo McCool

Men with penile squamous cell cancer could benefit from a combined approach to their cancer therapy, because targeted chemotherapy or immunotherapy alone – which may work for other kinds of cancers – is not effective for this cancer, according to a study by University of Notre Dame researchers and collaborators.
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Steven Corcelli Receives 2020 Thomas P. Madden Award

Author: Rebecca Hicks

Steven Corcelli, Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and Faculty Development, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Thomas P. Madden Award. This award honors the faculty member who contributed the most to the teaching of first-year students.
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Online tool created to track development of coronavirus vaccines

Author: Brandi Klingerman

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research Computing are recording details about the coronavirus vaccine candidates currently in development as well as the progress of those candidates via a new interactive online tool.