Category: Innovation and Impact

Main Building is shown in the background behind flowering trees.

Team led by Professor Fanny Ye awarded 2025 Poverty Research Package

The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support high-impact, poverty-related research projects led by Notre Dame faculty in multiple disciplines. The Initiative’s second annual call for proposals drew a strong response, with 18 …

A researcher wearing blue gloves and safety glasses uses a soldering iron on a small electronic component.

Keeping cool this summer

Ivy Tech professors amp up their AC game at Notre Dame From discovering novel ways to purify and reuse chemicals to creating sensors that will make cooling systems safer and more cost-efficient, teams of researchers have been working together this summer to modernize a sector many take for …

Single peanut in the shell on a reflective black surface, with a blurred background of more peanuts and a warm, red-orange glow.

From reaction to resolution: The future of allergy treatment

Twelve-year-old Lauren Eglite was thrilled to attend a Notre Dame football game with her father, Erik, in 2017, even though her acute peanut allergy demands constant vigilance. She was even more excited when the stadium’s brand-new video board aired an NBC Fighting For story about Basar …

Anatomical model of vertebrae with an artificial spinal disc implant.

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 …

A doctor in blue scrubs holds a red stethoscope, looking down at a newborn lying in a hospital bassinet. A young woman in a yellow Notre Dame sweatshirt stands next to the bassinet.

A better start for NICU families: Notre Dame leads the way in neonatal intensive care

In this episode of the Notre Dame Stories podcast, 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 …

Steve Koester

Steven Koester to lead Notre Dame’s Nanoscience and Technology (NDnano) Interdisciplinary Research Center

Steven Koester, recently appointed Frank M. Freimann Professor of Microelectronics and internationally recognized scholar and innovator in nanotechnology, has been named the director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NDnano). As director, he will lead a …

A scientist wearing safety glasses and blue gloves uses a plasma cleaner to treat a material sample. A purple plasma beam is visible.

Research worth fighting for

As one of America’s leading research institutions, Notre Dame has long been at the forefront of finding answers to the most pressing questions facing our communities. With our unique mission to be a force for good, Notre Dame researchers are making discoveries that make our nation healthier, …

Pi Squared app creators David Carr and Chris Fakhimi

A game, not a grind: Notre Dame students develop mobile app to make math fun

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 …

Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez

Notre Dame researchers partner with Mexico hospital to develop childhood cancer care monitoring tool

For a child battling cancer, an unexpectedly high temperature can initiate a race against time to reach providers who can treat and monitor symptoms. And for families in low- and middle-income communities in Mexico, pediatric cancer care is even more of a challenge. Fragmented healthcare systems, …

Maksym Zhukovskyi, Alex Sheardy, Astghik Kuzanyan, and Alexander Mukasyan pose during Dr. Kuzanyan's visit to Notre Dame, during which she underwent comprehensive training at the Integrated Imaging Facility. Photo: Angelic Rose Hubert

Notre Dame helps bring the first high-resolution transmission electron microscope to Armenia

The University of Notre Dame’s Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF) has helped Armenia reach a historic milestone by supporting the acquisition and implementation of the country’s first-ever high-resolution transmission electron microscope (TEM). This achievement marks a significant step …