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The University of Notre Dame was founded in 1842 in Notre Dame, Indiana initially as an all male Roman Catholic institution. Today the University of Notre Dame has a student body of approximately 11,600 and is a Roman Catholic co-educational campus. Notable academics include, the Cushing Hall of Engineering. Mendoza College of Business and the School of Law. Notre Dame is also noted for work in nuclear physics. The Notre Dame Web site while dynamic in appearance, could be easier to navigate.

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317 Main Building, Notre Dame, IN 46556

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jflory@nd.edu

Website

http://nd.edu/

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Designing a better superconductor with geometric frustration

Superconductors contain tiny tornadoes of supercurrent, called vortex filaments, that create resistance when they move. This affects the way superconductors carry a current.

Jun 11, 2018 in Nanophysics

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When local newspapers close, government runs unchecked, costs increase

It's no secret the U.S. newspaper industry is in decline. Nationwide, circulation is down by some 40 percent in the last two decades, and this year alone, multiple prominent newsrooms, including those at the Denver Post and ...

Jun 08, 2018 in Economics & Business

New molecules to reduce cost, environmental impact of mining precious metals

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have invented a new class of molecules that can be used to simplify the process used for capturing precious metals including gold, platinum and palladium.

Jun 08, 2018 in Materials Science

Fluid dynamics may play key role in evolution of cooperation

Believe it or not—it's in our nature to cooperate with one another, even when cheating may be more profitable. Social cooperation is common in every scale of life, from the simplest bacterial films and multicellular tissues ...

May 22, 2018 in Cell & Microbiology

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Religious left mobilized in solidarity for Women's March on Chicago, study finds

The link between conservative religion and conservative politics is well known, and a Pew Research Center report even showed that 81 percent of white evangelical Protestants voted for Donald Trump.

May 09, 2018 in Social Sciences

Study shows how companies can help safeguard intellectual property when expanding into risky countries

In 2015, Pfizer pharmaceutical company invested $14 million in Chile to launch the Center of Excellence in Precision Medicine, focusing on developing new genome-based diagnostic technologies for cancer.

May 07, 2018 in Economics & Business

Study reveals how bacteria communicate in groups to avoid antibiotics

In a new study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found that the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ...

Apr 27, 2018 in Biochemistry

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Dual-class firms have higher market valuations near time of IPO that drop over next six years, study

Facebook, Google, Comcast and Berkshire Hathaway are among a number of large companies that have dual-class stock structures, providing controlling shareholders with majority voting power despite owning a minority of total ...

Apr 18, 2018 in Economics & Business

Survival strategy: How one enzyme helps bacteria recover from exposure to antibiotics

Beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, are one of the most widely used classes of antibiotics in the world. Though they've been in use since the 1940s, scientists still don't fully understand what happens when this ...

Apr 09, 2018 in Biochemistry

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Same-sex marriage contributes to weakening of LGBQ community, study finds

In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. Eleven years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. Gaining the right to marry helped lesbian, ...

Apr 05, 2018 in Social Sciences

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