Modern electronic devices and components are made up of fundamental building blocks known as transistors. The role of a transistor is to behave as an electrical switch, passing information through an electrical circuit, but balancing the transistor’s switching speed and voltage while avoiding excessive heat production present a problem. To...

All are welcome to attend the Harper Cancer Research Institute’s (HCRI) fourth annual open house on Wednesday, June 20, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

New research from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University and the University of Minnesota shows such competition-inducing regulations may encourage companies to relax quality standards during the manufacturing process, which may put more patients at serious health risk due to lower-quality products and more product recalls

Indiana is in the bottom 10 states for infant mortality with a 2016 infant mortality rate (IMR) of 7.5. This means more than seven children die out of every 1,000 births. Unfortunately, St. Joseph County’s IMR was even higher, with an 8.2 IMR average from 2012 to 2016. To better understand...

Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics has awarded Kimberly Curtis, bioengineering graduate student, the Leiva Graduate Fellowship in Precision Medicine. The fellowship recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding performance or who bring special qualities or abilities to the University of Notre Dame in the area of Precision Medicine research.

The Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), a research partnership among Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame, has launched a new program called “All IN for Health” to help grow public awareness of the state’s current health challenges and to invite the public’s participation into...

In a new study, physicists at the University of Notre Dame examined how the mechanical properties of an environment may shape the social evolution of microbial populations.

Rosângela Moro, who accompanied her husband, Judge Sergio Moro, to the University of Notre Dame for his commencement address to the graduating class of 2018, spoke with faculty and staff May 21, 2018, to learn about the University’s research and outreach programs related to rare and neglected diseases.

Welcome to the first edition of the Warren Roundup, wherein an attempt is made to summarize accomplishments by members of the Warren Family Research Center for Drug Discovery. In addition, you will find below a succinct summary of the services provided by each of the three scientific cores (synthesis,…

The College of Engineering, College of Science, and Notre Dame Research are jointly celebrating the Alumni Association’s Annual Reunion with an event on Friday, June 1, 2018. The festivities will be held in the new McCourtney Hall and will feature fun S.T.E.M. themed food, drinks, and participatory activities.  

To study why breast cancer preferentially metastasizes to bone, Notre Dame researchers at the Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) are evaluating the relationship between the two by using breast cancer cells and human bone.

A blend of dedication to the community and a joyful work ethic landed two science professors in the spotlight as they were inducted into the 2018 Michiana Forty under 40 class.

Graduate student Tyson Lager was awarded a SCRM Travel Fellowship to present his research at the April 2018 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting held in Chicago, Illinois.

People showing virtually no symptoms are likely the primary source of dengue fever, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens. Nearly 400 million people each year are infected with dengue virus, which is transmitted through mosquitoes. 

Scientists studying tumor growth and metastasis at the University of Notre Dame fabricated a human tissue model to examine how cancer cells interact with connective tissue in the breast.

The 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference was held in April in Philadelphia. This conference is the premier meeting for Drosophila researchers in which they share their research with the fruit fly community and learn about the latest results and techniques.

What a difference 9 months can make! Especially when you are in the University of Notre Dame’s Master of Science in Global Health program: a one-year intensive global health training program, focused on research and science.

The Department of Physics is proud to announce that two graduate students have been recognized with a 2018 Center for Research Computing (CRC) Award for Computational Sciences and Visualization,…

On Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF) will host its annual Midwest Imaging and Microanalysis Workshop at the McKenna Conference Center. The event will feature presentations from faculty across the region, including Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan.

A paper co-authored Danny Chen-Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Applied Computational Mathematics & Statistics-was awarded the Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The paper ``3D Visualization and a Deep Learning Model Reveal Complex…