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Greg Crawford, dean of Notre Dame's College of Science, will be cycling 3,250 miles from Boston to Pebble Beach, Calif., to raise awareness and funds for research to find a cure for Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease.

Seven Notre Dame students and two faculty members traveled to Northern Ireland this spring for a new Center for Social Concerns (CSC) seminar to explore the role of digital technology in peace-building.

Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business earned top five rankings in eight of 14 business specialty categories—including first-place spots in ethics and sustainability—in the 2012 Bloomberg Businessweek annual ranking of the “Best Undergraduate Business Programs by Specialty."

Art. Sacred music. Medieval history. And the digital humanities. Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy, brings them all together in her current research—research for which she has been awarded two major fellowships. Adding to these accolades, Fassler recently received the 2012 Otto Gründler Book Prize.

Paul W. Bohn, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, director of the Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics initiative and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Notre Dame, has been named a fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

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A wind turbine and a meteorological tower recently erected on Notre Dame’s White Field are a highly visible symbol of the University’s commitment to establish a premier wind energy research program.

Catholic elementary school principals, speaking out in a major nationwide survey, report faithful commitments alongside acute challenges in the operation of their schools. The study, completed by Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education and its Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program, is a rare, comprehensive glimpse of these principals’ views on what they need in order to do their jobs better and how they describe the state of Catholic education today.

William L. Wilkie, professor of marketing at Notre Dame, recently added another achievement to his long list: The American Marketing Association Foundation has named an award after him.

People use electromagnetic energy every day … watching television, listening to the radio, popping corn with a microwave, taking an X-ray or using a cellphone. One of the hottest areas of the electromagnetic spectrum being explored today is the terahertz (THz) range, and researchers at Notre Dame have shown that it is possible to efficiently manipulate THz electromagnetic waves with atomically thin graphene layers.

Travel on airlines has become so routine for most of us, we often fail to appreciate what a true technological marvel it is. And it’s a costly and noisy marvel. That helps explain why the companies that manufacture aircraft engines often find their way to the laboratory of Notre Dame's Scott Morris.