Category: What would you fight for?

A blue glove holds a petri dish while a pipette places pink drops of liquid

Fighting to cure brain cancer

To better understand glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, thought outside the box—and off planet Earth. Read the …

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Fighting for faster virus detection

Nosang Myung, the Bernard Keating-Crawford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and James Rudolph, the Paul Down Assistant Professor of Industrial Design in the College of Arts & Letters, along with their team, have developed an electronic nose …

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Fighting to improve hurricane forecasts

David Richter, the Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Professor of Environmental Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and fellow Notre Dame researchers are improving hurricane forecast accuracy, giving officials time to evacuate and protect …