During the 2024 fiscal year, researchers at the University of Notre Dame submitted 1,310 proposals for external research funding for a total amount of $1.016 billion — the first time the University has surpassed the billion-dollar mark for proposals. In addition, the University received 829 separate awards — the largest number on record. With $223 million in total funding, these awards propelled the University past the $200 million mark for the fourth straight year.

Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, recently visited the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) and key sites in Lviv, Ukraine, as a sign of Notre Dame’s continued support for the university and its students. It was his first international trip on behalf of Notre Dame since stepping down from the presidency at the end of the 2023-24 academic year.

The University of Notre Dame is part of a statewide effort to address the mental health workforce shortage. In partnership with WISE Indiana, the University is contracted to help enhance the recruitment, retention and quality of Indiana’s behavioral health workforce. 

Forbes magazine’s annual survey of America’s best in-state employers has ranked the University of Notre Dame the leading employer in Indiana’s education sector and second among all of the state’s large organizations. “Being…

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of chronic absenteeism have nearly doubled across the nation for students in kindergarten through grade 12. This increase was tied to the mode of instruction during the early years of the pandemic. In particular, schools that employed virtual learning as the primary teaching mode during the 2020-21 school year experienced a greater increase in chronic absenteeism in the following year. That increase was significantly greater in school districts with higher levels of poverty, according to new research from William Evans, the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics and co-founder of Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities.

The Notre Dame Alumni Association announced its 2024 Domer Dozen cohort, honoring 12 graduates ages 32 and younger for excellence in their contributions in faith, service, learning or work — the core pillars of the association’s mission.

The impact of embodied carbon in the built environment has been difficult to assess, due to a lack of data. To address that knowledge gap, Ming Hu, the associate dean for research, scholarship and creative work in Notre Dame's School of Architecture, and Siavash Ghorbany, a Notre Dame graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, have created a new tool to analyze the embodied carbon in more than 1 million buildings in Chicago. Their recently published research identifies 157 different architectural housing types in the city and provides the first ever visual analysis tool to evaluate embodied carbon at a granular level and to help inform policymakers seeking to strategically plan for urban carbon mitigation.

Piezo proteins have the unique ability to convert mechanical forces—such as the pressure and stretch of developing cells—into chemical signals. While these proteins have been previously shown to regulate blood pressure and sense pain, chemical and biomolecular engineers at the University of Notre Dame have demonstrated their crucial role in organ growth, regulating organ size, and the arrangement of cells in organ tissue.

E. Jane Doering, professor emerita in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame, died Aug. 23. She was 91.

The University of Notre Dame has received a three-year, $1 million Institutional Impact Grant from the Educating Character Initiative (ECI) at Wake Forest University to expand programs focused on student character formation.

With five years of funding from the National Science Foundation, the Center for Bioanalytic Metrology at the University of Notre Dame will enter Phase II of its mission to create new capabilities in measurement science and solve current, emerging and industry-relevant problems, creating value for its corporate, non-profit and federal members.

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame are adding new evidence to the emerging concept that "silent" or synonymous mutations may have crucial consequences. Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed how a synonymous mutation in one gene can significantly affect a neighboring gene, increasing its protein production.

The University of Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees invites the public to join the historic celebration of the Inauguration of Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., the University’s 18th president. A series of events will begin Sept. 12 (Thursday), culminating…

John and Jill Coyle from Greenwich, Connecticut, have made a significant leadership gift to the University of Notre Dame for the construction of Coyle Hall.

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have developed a novel, automated device capable of diagnosing glioblastoma, a fast-growing and incurable brain cancer, in less than an hour. The average glioblastoma patient survives 12-18 months after diagnosis.

Statement on Freedom of Expression from University President Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C.

Flick on the Field returns Friday (Aug. 30), when the movie “Rudy” will be shown on the video board at Notre Dame Stadium.

Michael Levitt Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, a professor of structural biology at Stanford…