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University of Notre Dame researchers Jarek Nabrzyski and Jennifer Tank have each been appointed to the newly created position of Vice President for Research (VPR) Fellow within…
Barbara Montero, a professor of philosophy; Gretchen Reydams-Schils, a professor in the Program of Liberal Studies; and Roy Scranton, an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program and the Environmental Humanities Initiative, are among the 188 scholars, scientists and artists chosen from approximately 3,000 applicants for...
Today, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, announced its newest class of AAAS Fellows, including five faculty from the University of Notre Dame. This class represents…
Jason Rohr, Galla Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, is the United States national champion for the Frontiers Planet Prize,…
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Restoration Ecology in Practice: Notre Dame Students Learn About Land Management From Landscape Services & Holy Cross Congregation During the fall semester, faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences, Ryan Sensenig, instructed a course, Restoration…
The carbon removal industry is just starting to gain momentum. In November, a new plant in California began vacuuming carbon dioxide from the air. In August, the Biden administration announced that it will spend $1.2 billion to help build the first two commercial-scale plants in the US. The…
Kyle Bibby, professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences, and Prashant V. Kamat, the Reverend John A. Zahm Professor of Science in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, have been named to Clarivate’s 2023 list of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR).
“We will not sign our death certificate,” said Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster this week at the United Nations Climate Change Conference…
Building on its pioneering Country Index, which ranks climate vulnerability and readiness across more than 180 countries, the University of Notre Dame’s Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) will soon begin tracking the progress of such efforts in cities around the world. Based on evolving climate vulnerability and adaptation research, the Global...
The Environmental Change Initiative will host a Halloween-themed Science Sunday event from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 29) at the Notre Dame Linked Experimental Ecosystem Facility (ND-LEEF) at St. Patrick’s County Park in South Bend.
Diogo Bolster, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Hydrology at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) inaugural Polubarinova-Kochina Hydrologic Sciences Mid-Career Award.…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $1.5 million to a multidisciplinary team of faculty researchers at the University of Notre Dame who are working to protect wildlife from impending threats caused by climate change. The project, “Exploiting Federal Data and Beyond: A Multi-modal Knowledge…
The director of the Creative Writing Program and the Environmental Humanities Intitiative is writing a book titled Endgame: Climate Change, the Myth of Progress and Ethical Pessimism. He said figuring out how to keep living into a future "is one of the deepest, most intractable philosophical problems we face."
During fiscal year 2023, the University of Notre Dame received nearly $216 million in new research award funding, topping $200 million for the third year in a row.
This total includes 824 separate awards, the largest number the University has ever received.
Globally, one in four people lack access to clean drinking water, according to the World Health Organization and UNIFEF’s Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. In low and middle income nations…
Goodson joins 18 other distinguished scientists from across the globe in the 2023 cohort of fellows.
Notre Dame students working with city of South Bend, local firm on wireless monitoring technology Drought conditions in the American Southwest have drained rivers and reservoirs and led to ongoing water shortages in places such as California and Arizona, highlighting the…
Paola Crippa, assistant professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences with a joint appointment in the Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics,…
Public discourse in recent years about an “insect apocalypse”—sometimes described as the loss of 75 percent of insects during the past 50 years—might sound overblown, because research has…