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NSF CI Compass hosts FAIR Data Working Group to help major facilities, like MagLab, find data solutions
As research facilities and their staff of researchers and scientists grapple daily with producing, storing, and preserving their petabytes of data for new discoveries and studies — others need to construct systems that can enable them to build on their findings. Within the data collected each day…
Fatal school shootings have lasting impact on local economies
New research from the University of Notre Dame offers the first large-scale empirical evidence that community anxiety caused by fatal school shootings can impact routine consumption behaviors like grocery shopping and dining out.

Navigating the Waters of Peace: Challenges and Opportunities in the Implementation of Colombia's Peace Agreement
Nearly half the commitments outlined in Colombia's historic peace accord face significant challenges and may not happen in time unless policymakers make several key interventions, a new report from the University of Notre Dame warns. The report…
Klau Institute’s Melsheimer Fellows learn about civil and human rights while serving South Bend community
On a Wednesday evening in early April, a variation on the game of bingo was being played in the old St. Casimir Catholic School on the west side of South Bend. An instructor from One More Citizen, a nonprofit organization that offers free citizenship classes, was calling out questions from…
Exploring Product-Market Fit: Inside the ESTEEM Unusual Academy
This past year, several ESTEEM students had the opportunity to participate in the pilot of a new program: The ESTEEM Unusual Academy, led by Unusual Ventures Co-Founder and Managing Partner, John Vrionis.…
Franco Institute announces inaugural Humanities Faculty Fellows and new Research Innovation Collaboratives
The Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, formerly the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, continues its support of innovative research in the College of Arts & Letters with a new name and expanded mission. Seventeen faculty…
Corporate boards with more women in positions of power lead to safer workplaces
New research from the University of Notre Dame takes a first look at how workplace safety is affected by female board representation, finding there are fewer accidents and injuries on the job when boards have more women.
Finding fusion: an engineer and neurosurgeon unite to improve spinal surgery
It is the summer of 2023, and Dr. Stephen Smith sits face-to-face with a model skeleton in the Engineering North building on the University of Notre Dame campus. Smith is a neurosurgeon at Beacon Health System’s Memorial Hospital in downtown South Bend, Indiana, about a mile southwest of the…
Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic announces winners of 2025 Global Human Rights Practice Writing Competition
In Spring 2025, the Global Human Rights Clinic launched the inaugural Global Human Rights Practice Writing Competition to recognize outstanding student scholarship on the practice of international human rights law. Open to J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. students, the competition invited submissions…
In Memoriam: Sriram Somanchi
Somanchi was a widely respected teacher and scholar whose research broke new ground in the academic landscape by drawing on social science and statistical machine learning to develop and deploy methods that bridge these related but distinct disciplines.
Notre Dame business professor ranked No. 1 in published research
Dean Shepherd, Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business,…
Airborne disease detection made easier with new, low-cost device
Airborne hazardous chemicals can be dilute, mobile, and hard to trap. Yet accurately measuring these chemicals is critical in protecting human health and the environment. Now, a new, small, low-cost device, nicknamed ABLE, could make the collection and detection of airborne hazards much easier and faster. The device, just four by eight inches across, was devised by Jingcheng Ma, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and researchers at the University of Chicago. The results of their work were published in Nature Chemical Engineering.
University of Notre Dame and Dublin City University set to collaborate on new Precision Biomedical Technologies
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When Byzantium Met Islam: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Explores Remarkable Religious Exchanges in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean World
Since fall 2023, the Medieval Institute has been honored to host Dr. Manolis Ulbricht, who holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship. This prestigious multi-year fellowship supports…
Lechartre Awarded Top Dissertation Prize for Innovative Study of Transitional Justice in Guatemala
Jósephine Lechartre, Ph.D. '24 in Peace Studies and Political Science
Notre Dame announces next step for emerging tech and talent district in downtown South Bend
The Tech and Talent District, a keystone of the city of South Bend’s Downtown South Bend 2045 plan, has advanced a step closer to implementation via a partnership between the University of Notre Dame and Ancora to pursue the development of the first phase of the district.
Notre Dame Washington Office and Notre Dame International Security Center host national security discussion for young professionals in DC
Last month, the University of Notre Dame’s Washington Office and the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) co-hosted “National Security & Intelligence: Thriving in Times of Transition,” a professional…
ND Learning Expands AI Offerings with Faculty Academy, New Lab
The widespread availability of artificial intelligence tools means faculty need dedicated support to help them explore the ways AI is impacting teaching in their disciplines and how, if at all, to integrate it in their own courses. With the Notre Dame Teaching Well with AI Academy (NDTWAA) and the Lab for AI in Teaching and Learning (LAITL), Notre Dame Learning has launched two initiatives in recent months designed to work with instructors in just this manner.
A better start for NICU families: Notre Dame leads the way in neonatal intensive care
In this episode, Kathleen Kolberg, Ph.D., Associate Dean, College of Science, Office of the Dean, Assistant Director of the Center for Health Sciences Advising, shares how Notre Dame helped set the standard for NICU design and care. We also hear from Ainee Martin, a recently graduated chemical…
Notre Dame opens new Washington Office to expand service and impact in nation’s capital
The University of Notre Dame marked the opening of its new Washington, D.C., office with a blessing and dedication ceremony, highlighting the University’s growing presence in the nation’s capital.