Students often say that math is their least favorite subject—too abstract, too much about memorizing rules and formulae, and, frankly, not much fun. That’s why two Notre Dame students have created an educational, gamified math app, Pi-Squared. Their mobile phone app, designed for students aged 15-18, prepares users for standardized math exams, while also appealing to those who enjoy math puzzles.

Fertility rates across the world have been steadily dropping since 1950. Pinpointing the reasons is at the heart of Lakshmi Iyer's work as a professor of economics and global affairs. Her research exemplifies the kind of population-level research that Notre Dame Population Analytics (ND Pop), a new research initiative at the University, seeks to foster.

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On Thursday, March 27, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced the 2024 class of AAAS Fellows including Lee Gettler, the Rev. John A. O’Brien College Professor of Anthropology in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame.

A study in Science Translational Medicine found when patients take the drug nitisinone, their blood becomes deadly to mosquitoes.

In this conversation, Daniel Onyeanuna, a 2024 graduate of the Master of Global Affairs program, shares how his Keough School education prepared him to make a difference through his work in corporate sustainability.  

Rare Books and Special Collections exhibit allows visitors to see WWII events from a different perspective. 

Laura Gamboa, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, explores how opposition movements navigate authoritarian regimes in a study of Venezuela's political transformation. The research analyzes the effectiveness of various strategies, including electoral participation, in the face of eroding democratic norms.

Yanliang Zhang, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Collegiate associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, together with colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Purdue University, has created a novel material that seamlessly transitions between soft tissues and stiff electronics—stretchy enough to move with the body’s dynamic changes yet stiff enough to maintain electrical connectivity. The team’s results have been published in Advanced Materials.

Throughout the fall 2024 semester, Gregory Pratt, a senior undergraduate mechanical engineering student in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering, focused on making an existing bracket for a collapsible staircase handrail easier to produce and…

Graduate students from the University of Notre Dame joined peers from across Indiana at the Statehouse for the 2025 Indiana Science Communication Day, an event aimed at encouraging doctoral students to apply their research on a broader scale and bridging the gap between researchers and policymakers.…

In his book on basketball great Bill Bradley, writer John McPhee proposed that Bradley's greatest asset had little to do with speed, strength, or agility. It had to do, McPhee proposed, with his eyes.…

When faced with adversity in a venture, do you seek an easy way out or embrace a challenge? How can mentors help push you to overcome adversity? How can faith be a resource in the startup journey? These were the questions at the heart of “Choosing Hard: Tales of Faith, Grit, and Alumni Collaboration…