The Young Professionals Network South Bend and St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the South Bend Tribune, area chambers of commerce, presenting sponsor Gates Automotive Group and supporting sponsors Barnes & Thornburg, Crowe Horwath and 1st Source Bank recognize the 2013 Michiana Forty under 40 class. The...

  The recent Conservation Letters article by a group of ND-ECI researchers was featured by Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.   

  The recent Conservation Letters article by a group of ND-ECI researchers was featured by Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.   

  Dr. Jennifer Tank: The James A. Burns, CSC Award Winner Jennifer Tank, The Ludmilla F., Stephen J., and Robert T. Galla Collegiate Chair in Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 James A. Burns, CSC Award, which is given annually to a faculty member for...

  Dr. Jennifer Tank: The James A. Burns, CSC Award Winner Jennifer Tank, The Ludmilla F., Stephen J., and Robert T. Galla Collegiate Chair in Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 James A. Burns, CSC Award, which is given annually to a faculty member for...

  Jessica Hellmann, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, discusses climate change adaption in the inaugural issue of the Reilly Center Reports. Find her piece online here.  The Reilly Center Reports is an online publication bringing critical information about breaking issues in the ethics and policy of science and technology to a wide audience of policy...

  Jessica Hellmann, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, discusses climate change adaption in the inaugural issue of the Reilly Center Reports. Find her piece online here.  The Reilly Center Reports is an online publication bringing critical information about breaking issues in the ethics and policy of science and technology to a wide audience of policy...

Arise America featured Professor Jessica Hellmann on Earth Day to discuss climate change.…

Arise America featured Professor Jessica Hellmann on Earth Day to discuss climate change.…

The South Bend Tribune highlights the work being done by the Lamberti Lab to rehabilitate Juday Creek, a stream that cuts through a portion of northern St. Joseph County. "Through their work, the creek has bounced back from sediment and other erosion problems in the 1980s and 1990s -- and scientists are...

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  The University of Notre Dame will become the new home base of the Global Adaptation Index, a tool showing which countries are best prepared to deal with droughts, storms and other natural disasters that may be caused by climate change. Known as GAIN, the index ranks countries annually based on how...

  The University of Notre Dame will become the new home base of the Global Adaptation Index, a tool showing which countries are best prepared to deal with droughts, storms and other natural disasters that may be caused by climate change. Known as GAIN, the index ranks countries annually based on how...

  The Global Adaptation Index (GAIN)—the world’s leading Index showing which countries are best prepared to deal with the droughts, super-storms and other natural disasters that climate change can cause—is moving to the University of Notre Dame. GAIN, which ranks countries annually based on how vulnerable they are to climate change and how...

  The Global Adaptation Index (GAIN)—the world’s leading Index showing which countries are best prepared to deal with the droughts, super-storms and other natural disasters that climate change can cause—is moving to the University of Notre Dame. GAIN, which ranks countries annually based on how vulnerable they are to climate change and how...

  Nitesh Chawla, lead on ECI's Transportation Networks program and co-lead on the Climate Change Adaptation program, co-authored a book on data analysis for sustainable development. The book presents powerful techniques from mathematical optimization, data mining, machine learning, knowledge discovery, etc. and also explains how these methods collect and analyze large quantities...

  Nitesh Chawla, lead on ECI's Transportation Networks program and co-lead on the Climate Change Adaptation program, co-authored a book on data analysis for sustainable development. The book presents powerful techniques from mathematical optimization, data mining, machine learning, knowledge discovery, etc. and also explains how these methods collect and analyze large quantities...

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Notre Dame, IND. – Scientists from the University of Notre Dame, The Nature Conservancy, and Central Michigan University have presented their findings of Asian carp DNA throughout the Great Lakes in a study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 

Notre Dame, IND. – Scientists from the University of Notre Dame, The Nature Conservancy, and Central Michigan University have presented their findings of Asian carp DNA throughout the Great Lakes in a study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 

  Jessica Hellmann, associate professor of biological sciences, accepted an invitation to become an associate editor for the ecology domain in the journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Elementa is a new, nonprofit, open access journal that was developed based on the concept that basic knowledge can foster sustainable solutions for society.

  Jessica Hellmann, associate professor of biological sciences, accepted an invitation to become an associate editor for the ecology domain in the journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Elementa is a new, nonprofit, open access journal that was developed based on the concept that basic knowledge can foster sustainable solutions for society.

  A new research paper by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame’sEnvironmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI) demonstrates how two cutting-edge technologies can provide a sensitive and real-time solution to screening real-world water samples for invasive species before they get into our country or before they cause significant damage....

  A new research paper by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame’sEnvironmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI) demonstrates how two cutting-edge technologies can provide a sensitive and real-time solution to screening real-world water samples for invasive species before they get into our country or before they cause significant damage....

  DNA from Asian carp species has been found in the waters of Lake Erie, leading scientists to worry that the invasive fish, which are capable of seriously damaging fragile ecosystems, are back in the Great Lakes.  

  DNA from Asian carp species has been found in the waters of Lake Erie, leading scientists to worry that the invasive fish, which are capable of seriously damaging fragile ecosystems, are back in the Great Lakes.  

  Great Lakes researchers are using new DNA techniques to track down and control the spread of invasive species. The techniques are sort of like what you see on all those CSI television dramas where scientists analyze DNA left at the crime scene and use it to prosecute the culprits....

  Great Lakes researchers are using new DNA techniques to track down and control the spread of invasive species. The techniques are sort of like what you see on all those CSI television dramas where scientists analyze DNA left at the crime scene and use it to prosecute the culprits....