During the Notre Dame-Pittsburgh football game on Saturday (Oct. 9), the University will recognize a special group of alumni and staff who represented the large Notre Dame contingent who helped with the recovery efforts after the January earthquake in Haiti...

Talk about a walk on the wild side: University of Notre Dame researcher Joshua Shrout is co-author of a new paper that shows that bacteria are capable of “standing up” and moving while vertical ...

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A research and development effort by the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wyoming, and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. has succeeded in producing transgenic silkworms capable of spinning artificial spider silks ...

It has taken 10 years for Dr. Beatrice H. Hahn to build the world’s most comprehensive treasury of great ape dung samples. And now it has yielded an unexpected gem: The most dangerous form of malaria originated in gorillas, not...

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report presents evidence that dengue fever, largely absent from the United States for decades, has reemerged in Florida ...

Stephen E. Silliman, professor of civil engineering and geological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the 2011 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer by the National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation ...

The UN has declared that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right ...

Three University of Notre Dame faculty members—Basar Bilgicer, Bradley S. Gibson, and Paul Helquist—have been awarded grants from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (Indiana CTSI) ...

The capture of a bighead carp in Lake Calumet, Ill., on June 22 (Tuesday), is the first capture of a live Asian carp between the electric barrier in the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) and Lake Michigan ...

Katie Washington, a biological sciences major from Gary, Ind., has been named valedictorian of the 2010 University of Notre Dame graduating class and will present the valedictory address during Commencement exercises May 16 (Sunday) in Notre Dame stadium ...

The Genomics, Disease Ecology and Global Health Strategic Research Investment Program and the Eck Institute for Global Health have announced the presentation of nine awards to support pilot projects in the areas of genomics and bioinformatics ...

Mark Wacker, a fourth-year graduate student in the Eck Institute for Global Health, has won an award for Best Young Investigator Presentation ...

Katherine A. Taylor has been named director of operations for the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health ...

Gregory Crawford, dean of the University of Notre Dame’s College of Science, and Rev. Thomas Streit, C.S.C., founder of the University’s Haiti Program, met with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter ...

New research by University of Notre Dame anthropologist Agustin Fuentes, published recently in the European journal Anthropology Today, states that ...

The Genomics, Disease Ecology and Global Health Strategic Research Initiative Program and the Eck Institute for Global Health are pleased to announce the awarding of five graduate student fellowships ...

The Genomics, Disease Ecology and Global Health Strategic Research Initiative Program and the Eck Institute for Global Health have announced the presentation of six awards ...

A new study by a team of researchers led by Jessica Hellmann, assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, offers interesting insights into how species may, or may not, change their geographic range ...

Patricia L. Clark, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been selected as a member of the Editorial Board of the Biophysical Journal ...