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Meenal Datta receives 2024 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award. The award, given by the journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), recognizes 12 “rising stars” in the field of biomedical …

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Science and poetry find common language in new conversation series

Cell-Cell, Stanza-Stanza is a new conversation series that explores how science and poetry can work together to foster healing, especially in the context of cancer and serious illness. The first event in this series, held on April 17, 2024 at the University of Notre Dame, brought together a …

Notre Dame Poverty Initiative announces new investments in poverty research

The University of Notre Dame’s Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support research projects led by Notre Dame faculty and help recruit prominent poverty scholars to Notre Dame. Three of the investments were made through the Initiative’s …

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Synchronized forces behind flower-like patterns in plasma waves

Neither a solid, liquid, nor gas, plasma doesn’t play by the same rules as the other states of matter. Its unique properties are particularly evident at plasma-liquid interfaces, where chemical, electric and fluid forces collide to create waves.  In a recent paper in Physical Review …

A home destroyed by Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane, which struck Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in 2017. Engineers at Notre Dame have been leading assessments of structural damage following major hurricanes and warn rapidly intensifying storms like Helene and Milton are the new normal. (Photo: University of Notre Dame)

ND Expert: Hurricanes like Milton, Helene are the new normal

There is no rest for weary Florida residents who have yet to recover from Hurricane Helene. Less than two weeks since the Category 4 storm made landfall, battering the state and surrounding southeast region, another major hurricane is charting a dangerous path toward Florida’s Gulf …

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Network biology connects the dots for human health

Networks form the backbone of transportation infrastructure, communication systems, and even the neurons in our …

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Notre Dame researchers leverage social media data to develop a new AI-driven model for opioid misuse prevention in teenagers and young adults

Teenagers spend over five hours on social media each day – their online interactions might reveal clues that save …

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Energizing tomorrow’s engineers: Notre Dame REUs

Imagine designing a more sustainable battery, creating nanoparticles to fight breast cancer, or engineering ligaments …

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Matt Morrison recognized as champion for the advancement of women in the semiconductor industry

The Global Semiconductor Alliance Women's Leadership Initiative (WLI) recently recognized Matt Morrison, Associate …

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Notre Dame researchers create new tool to analyze embodied carbon in more than 1 million buildings in Chicago

The built environment — which includes the construction and operation of buildings, highways, bridges and other …