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Science dean biking 3,250 miles to bring attention to rare disease research
May 16, 2012 • Categories: Featured
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.
Notre Dame students travel to Northern Ireland for inaugural CSC seminar
May 16, 2012
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.
Mendoza ranked No. 1 for ethics and sustainability in Bloomberg Businessweek specialty rankings
May 16, 2012
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."
Music historian and liturgical scholar Margot Fassler wins three research awards
May 16, 2012
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 Bohn named 2012 spectroscopy fellow
May 15, 2012
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.
EWiND facility aimed at improvements in wind energy
May 15, 2012 • Categories: Featured
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.
Survey of Catholic school principals finds support needed for a tough job
May 15, 2012
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.
Marketing group names award after ND professor William Wilkie
May 15, 2012
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.
Graphene-based terahertz devices: The wave of the future
May 08, 2012
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.
Unique research laboratory focuses on making aircraft engines more efficient
May 04, 2012
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.

