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  • Notre Dame sends cancer research aboard the International Space Station

    • University of Notre Dame researchers are taking their science to space aboard NASA’s 30th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission, which is slated to launch no earlier than Thursday (March 21). The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft will lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and travel to the International Space Station (ISS), which is in orbit roughly 250 miles above Earth’s surface. In addition to food, supplies and equipment for the ISS crew, the spacecraft will transport an experimental study from researchers in Notre Dame’s Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.

  • Notre Dame joins consortium to support responsible artificial intelligence

    • The consortium, called the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), was formed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that works to develop standards for emerging technologies. As part of the new consortium, University of Notre Dame researchers will help establish the advanced measurement techniques required to identify the risks associated with current AI systems and to develop new systems that are safer and more trustworthy.

  • Notre Dame joins IBM, Meta, other partners in founding new AI Alliance

    • On Tuesday (Dec. 5), the University of Notre Dame joined with partners around the world to launch the AI Alliance. The AI Alliance is a broad, international coalition of organizations that are working across numerous aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) education, research, development, deployment and governance. Its aim is to enhance the social benefits of AI by supporting open innovation and ensuring that AI systems are safe, secure and trustworthy.

  • Researchers use AI to track chemotherapy complications, help families fighting pediatric cancer

    • In Mexico, where cancer is the second leading cause of death for children, families travel a significant distance to specialty hospitals for chemotherapy treatment. When a patient leaves the hospital after treatment, there is no system to follow up on their recovery or outcome. This was the challenge that Nitesh Chawla, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society at the University of Notre Dame, and Angélica García Martínez, postdoctoral research associate at the Lucy Family Institute, set out to address.

  • Notre Dame hosts 800 local high school students for first Building Trades Day

    • The event was an opportunity for students to meet local employers, explore trades education and career opportunities in the greater South Bend community, and see how their classroom learning can build a foundation for future success.

  • Doosan Enerbility recognized for supporting sustainable energy research at Notre Dame

    • On Wednesday, September 27, the University of Notre Dame added Doosan Enerbility to the University's Founders Wall. Located just off Notre Dame avenue near the University’s main entrance, the Founders Wall recognizes individuals and organizations that have contributed five million dollars or more to support the University’s academic mission.

  • Matthew Morrison awarded Google Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship to advance digital hardware education

    • Matthew Morrison, associate teaching professor in computer science and engineering, has been awarded a Google Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship. His research project will focus on integrating semiconductor chip design software into K-12 and university curricula, with the goal of accelerating the training of semiconductor hardware professionals around the country.

  • Will math show that muscle form matters? Notre Dame Sports Performance, ACMS join forces as part of NFL charities grant examining hamstring injuries

    • The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (ACMS) has partnered with Notre Dame’s Department of Athletics on a project funded by the National Football League (NFL) to investigate potential risk factors for hamstring injuries. The aim is to harness the knowledge that can help better identify at risk athletes and even predict injuries before they occur.

  • Notre Dame partners with Tennessee State and nine other HBCUs to grow the U.S. microelectronics workforce

    • Matt Morrison, associate teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, recently joined Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI). The initiative provides $50 million to support science, technology, engineering, arts, and math opportunities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).

  • Notre Dame Welcomes Young African Leaders for six-week leadership institute

    • Notre Dame’s President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., welcomed 23 of Africa’s brightest emerging leaders to campus on June 26 for a six-week Leadership Institute sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The cohort hails from 18 African nations and is part of the 2023 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of the U.S. Government’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). The Pulte Institute has been a YALI partner since 2013. 

  • Brianna Lynn Wimer named 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow to address computing needs of vision-impaired people

    • Brianna Lynn Wimer, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow. The fellowship recognizes graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields.

  • ND Experts on the opportunities, concerns and impacts of AI

    • University of Notre Dame experts reflect on the opportunities, concerns and impacts of AI on different fields — including entertainment and media, the arts, politics, the labor market, education and business. Several of these faculty are affiliates of the interdisciplinary Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center.

  • Collaboration for cold-chain biological transportation in Belize yields positive results

    • The Notre Dame Belize Response Initiative for Cold-Chain (ND-BRICC) Development Project is a collaboration with the Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness, which received financial support from Carrier, an industry leader in cold chain innovation, and its Sensitech business, as well as donations from UPS Healthcare.

  • The Chip Makers: Students at ND's Nanofabrication Facility

    • Each year, a group of Notre Dame students receives a massive—though tiny—challenge: Build a semiconductor chip inside Notre Dame’s nanofabrication facility

  • A Science of Disruption: Prof. Diego Gómez-Zará in partnership with Amazon

    • Prof. Gómez-Zará (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering) has developed data-driven tools for determining the factors that make a product, concept, and technology become disruptive rather than developmental. And now, with new funding from Amazon, he is ready to develop tools to predict early on—even before launch or publication—whether a technology will be widely adopted or whether a new idea will catch on.

  • Sierra Space and Notre Dame to Push the Boundaries of Scientific Discovery in Space

    • The University of Notre Dame and Sierra Space signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to facilitate future collaborations that advance space research and exploration. A leading pureplay commercial space company, Sierra Space is building “the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space to benefit life on Earth.”

  • Anna McGinn ’22 J.D., one of ND Law’s Bank of America Foundation Fellows, helps free wrongfully convicted man

    • McGinn is working with the Great North Innocence Project for two years as a Bank of America Foundation Fellow — one of the public-interest legal fellowships granted each year to members of Notre Dame Law School’s graduating class.

  • Notre Dame partners with Accenture to grow health equity data and analytics to improve health care for vulnerable populations

    • With the support of a gift from Accenture, the first undertaking for the Health Equity Data Lab at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society is the Accenture Health Equity Data project, led by Nitesh Chawla, the institute’s founding director and the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Accenture has also committed to a fundraising campaign with its employees and alumni, including those who have ties to Notre Dame, over a three-year period.

  • Notre Dame Patient Advocacy Initiative receives founding gift from Horizon Therapeutics

    • Horizon Therapeutics, a biotechnology company whose mission is to deliver medicines for rare, autoimmune and severe inflammatory diseases, has made a founding five-year gift to establish the University of Notre Dame’s Patient Advocacy Initiative in the College of Science.

  • Notre Dame graduates development professionals from first online course

    • Initially created for long-standing Pulte Institute partner Chemonics International, the course immersed the organization’s learners in the fundamental concepts about data and the use of data in the development context. The three-level course is designed to meet learners where they are physically, culturally, and professionally while still considering the personalized needs of each learner.