With two generous gifts to the University of Notre Dame totaling $1 million, Anne Laflamme and George and Theresa Gee have established the Ella McKeirnan Memorial Endowment. The endowment—funded through $500,000 from Laflamme and $500,000 from the Gees—will permanently support the Ella McKeirnan Memorial Fellowship within the Harper Cancer Research...

The Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF) at the University of Notre Dame has installed a new research instrument—a hybrid tool that combines materials characterization with nanoscale precision machining and sample preparation. The instrument is operational…

Shahriar Mobashery, Navari Family Professor in Life Sciences, has been selected as the winner of the 2027 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes…

During the 2025-2026 fiscal year, the University of Notre Dame continued its trajectory of research growth, submitting the most proposals and receiving the highest value of external research awards in the institution’s history. “I want…

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center who study the spread of cancer away from the original tumor, called metastasis, hypothesized that the first cells to arrive in the new location make it easier for future waves of cancer cells to take hold.…

Researchers in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Biological Sciences are developing an innovative solution to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), which affect approximately one million patients in the United States each year. Led by Ana Flores-Mireles,…

Some scientific research takes place on a scale so small that scholars need specialized tools to get a good look at their work. These instruments, which can capture images down to the size of an atom, operate much like a high-end camera, turning light and touch into results via advanced...