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Researchers at the University of Notre Dame conducted a study using AI bots based on large language models and asked human and AI bot participants to engage in political discourse. Fifty-eight percent of the time, the participants could not identify...

The Materials Engineering to Realize Innovative Technologies for Sustainability or MERITS, Fellow Training Program will enhance the training of graduate students interested in developing sustainable technologies and support improved mentoring programs.

Five University of Notre Dame graduate students have received fellowships for the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Doctoral Program.

All full-time, regular faculty are encouraged to apply for the Faculty Research Support Program (FRSP) Regular Grant and the FRSP Initiation Grant by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, October 25, 2021.

Twenty-three researchers from the University of Notre Dame have received awards through the Notre Dame Research (NDR) Internal Grant Program. The goal of this program is to support outstanding research, scholarship, or creative endeavor that will make a major contribution...

Five Notre Dame faculty members received prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Development Awards in 2021. Since 2014, Notre Dame faculty have earned 55 of these awards.

This workshop was created to enhance conversations among the thermal transport communities and the greater materials informatics communities to promote international collaboration initiatives.

Faculty are invited to apply for two programs within the Notre Dame Research Internal Grants Program. The deadline to apply to the available grants is Friday, April 9, 2021 by 5:00 p.m. EST.

The new Analytical Science and Engineering at Notre Dame Core Facility is now available to faculty, staff, and students at the University of Notre Dame, as well as external academic and industry users.

Researchers from Notre Dame have identified a new solvent – an ionic liquid – that improves on emerging desalination technology, directional solvent extraction.

Each fellow will receive a stipend for one year to support their research and dissertation as part of the new doctoral program that launched in 2020.

On Tuesday, September 15, 2020, Notre Dame Research will host a virtual Core Facility Fair from 9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST. The event is open to students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff.

In 2019 ND Energy introduced a new course, Puerto Rico: Road Map to a Renewable Future, which allowed students to travel to Puerto Rico and experience what it's like to navigate the political, cultural, and technological challenges of implementing renewable energy. 

In the annual update of the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative Country Index data sources for some vulnerability indicators have changed, including food dependency and urban concentration. 

The University of Notre Dame has received $172.5 million in new research funding awards for fiscal year 2020—the second highest in its history.

Students can now earn a distinctive, interdisciplinary doctoral degree in materials science and engineering through the College of Engineering and the College of Science.

To further engage the University’s expertise for developing efficient, hypersonic flight vehicles, Notre Dame has launched the Hypersonic Systems Initiative.

Scientists and engineers are collaborating to translate existing water filtration technology to create a new fabric that will not only capture viruses, like the coronavirus, but also deactivate them.

CORES, the core ordering and reporting system that core facilities use to facilitate their operations on campus, will be retired by the end of the calendar year. Therefore, Core facilities will transition to a new system called iLab core facility...

Mark Berends, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, has been named an associate vice president for research at the University of Notre Dame.

While the University of Notre Dame has continued its commitment to inquiry and endeavor over the entirety of its history, creating the circumstances for achievement has evolved over time. Upon inauguration, Father Jenkins set out to lead a great Catholic...

At Notre Dame researchers are working to provide solutions to society’s complex environmental challenges to minimize the trade-offs between human welfare and environmental health. 

In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Jon P. Camden and collaborators used a combination of electron spectroscopy and theoretical modeling to observe the first direct detection of Fano resonances, or Fano interferences.

Powering everything from the development of new drugs and medical devices to the detection of dangerous chemicals, measurement science is a multi-billion-dollar industry that is key to both U.S. and international economies. With a grant from the National Science Foundation...