Over the next decade, both organizations will co-invest in research initiatives that span multiple colleges and disciplines, and allow Notre Dame’s faculty, staff and student researchers to work alongside Under Armour personnel to identify research questions and design solutions for impact on campus and beyond.

More than 375 sustainability professionals gathered at the University of Notre Dame on October 20–23, 2025 for the second annual conference of the National Sustainability Society. The theme running through every session, informal conversation and keynote address was clear: a just and sustainable future requires the flourishing of both people and the planet.

Physician, humanitarian and medical missionary Dr. Tom Catena will visit the University of Notre Dame on Nov. 12 (Wednesday) to deliver the 2025 Rev. Bernie Clark, C.S.C., Lecture at 5 p.m. in the Eck Visitors Center Auditorium. Catena’s lecture, titled “Hope and Healing,” is also part of the 2025-26 Notre Dame Forum, which is organized around the theme “Cultivating Hope.”

When the fast-growing aerospace company Hermeus needed to test its revolutionary propulsion system, it found an ideal partner in the University of Notre Dame. “It’s rare to find a direct-connect facility available for industry use,” explains Amber Shell, a propulsion test engineer at Hermeus.…

Meet Miko Malabute, an ESTEEM alumnus from the Class of 2018. By completing the ESTEEM program, Miko became a Double Domer, having received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Notre Dame. In his first role after college, Miko discovered that his professional passion was…

I have never studied the classics with any intention of gleaning directly applicable information for my work in the sciences. Nevertheless, I have increasingly found that my continued engagement with classical studies as an academic discipline has imbued me with many of the basic skills I use as a scientist.

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Clinical psychologists often narrow in on just one topic for their research. But the life experiences researchers study don’t always occur separately in the real world. “Labs will study addiction, or they'll study suicide,” said Melissa…

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Since its founding, the University of Notre Dame has sought to address the world’s most pressing challenges through scholarship, partnership, and service. Responding to the growing urgency of environmental change requires precisely this kind of collaboration, bringing together universities, researchers, and communities to create solutions that are just, sustainable, and grounded in shared responsibility for our planet.

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Cave entrances often appear black and forbidding. Light enters, but little escapes, absorbed as it “bounces around” the interior. To trap light in much the same way, engineers at the University of Notre Dame have devised a superblack material from a matrix of microscopic, sheer-walled “caves”—each just 10 microns wide. The result reflects less than 0.4% of visible light across the full spectrum. Unlike many superblack materials which are fragile and expensive, theirs is robust, low-cost and easy to customize. Their results were published in Nature Communications.

When a place welcomes you once, it has a way of calling you back. For Ty Harrington ’26—a program of liberal studies (PLS), philosophy, and theology major from Carmel, IN—that place was…

Kevin and Cynthia O’Brien of Dallas have made a significant gift to the University of Notre Dame to endow the O’Brien Notre Dame International Security Center, which provides a forum for scholars and students at the University of Notre Dame and elsewhere to explore the most pressing issues in national security policy.

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Researchers with the University of Notre Dame’s Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society have received an…