College News
Post Doc Leticia Llarrull named a Pew Fellow in Biomedical Sciences
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College Welcomes Greg Crawford as Dean.
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College Welcomes Undergraduate Research Coordinator, Dominic Chaloner.
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Seven new faculty join the College.
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Gates Foundation grant to support malaria control research.
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Chemistry-Biochemistry-Biology Interface Program receives NIH grant.
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Lab's goal is scientific advance–applications come later (Bruce Noll, research professor in the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry).
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Sensing Our World Summer Camp 2007 , a week-long all-day summer camp about physical science, materials, physics and sensors for students entering 7th or 8th grade.
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Reasearch Experience for Undergraduates 2007.
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National Youth Sports Program 2007.
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Charles M. Harper, retired chair and chief executive officer of ConAgra Foods and of RJR Nabisco, has made a $10 million gift to the University of Notre Dame to support the construction of Harper Hall, a new building for expanded medical school and cancer research initiatives at the Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend (IUSM-SB) in partnership with Notre Dame.
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College of Science Joint Annual Meeting 2007 will be held in Jordan Hall on Friday, May 4. This meeting will highlight undergraduate research in Science at Notre Dame and St. Mary's.
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The College receives a $2.71 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair was held March 3, 2007.
Early admittted student open house was held February 8-9, 2007.
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The Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology was held November 10 and 11. Five individuals and four teams of high school students presented their independent research projects to a panel of judges composed of Notre Dame faculty.
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Health Sciences advisors help students form the complete postgrad package.
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$10 million gift from John and Barbara Glynn family, to enhance Arts & Letters and Science Honors Program.
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Office of Research publication "Defining Tomorrow: Research for the Greater Good" features science faculty, students, and research facilities.
Northern Indiana Regional Science and Engineering Fair held March, 2006 at Stepan Center. Local high school student, Neeta Kamat takes top honors.
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Jordan Hall of Science, dedicated September 14, 2006.
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W.M. Keck Center for Transgene Research and the Walther Cancer Center brings the University national prominence in the field of molecular medicine.
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Faculty News
College of Science faculty receive Dockweiler and Joyce Awards
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Castellino receives 2008 WYETH-ISFP Prize
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Trozzolo wins the 2008 National Marconi Science Award.
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American Physical Society recognizes Cason, Furdyna, and Johnson for Lifetime Award.
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NASA Space Shuttle carries Dennis Jacob's Experiements.
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Kuno publishes nanowire results.
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Mobashery receives Astellas Award.
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Catholic Digest names Kristin Shrader-Frechette U.S. Hero.
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AAAS Honors Shahriar Mobashery's Work to Fight MRSA.
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Physicist Umesh Garg Accomplishes A Rare Feat.
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Physicist Cesar Hidalgo, a researcher at the Center for Complex Network Research, created a visualization from medical records.
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Professor Kamat improves efficiency of Photovoltaics.
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Professor of Chemistry Olaf Wiest and his colleagues are working on a "morning after" cream to repair sun damaged skin.
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Astrophysicist Peter Garnavich to share Gruber Prize in Cosmology.
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Mark A. Suckow, Director of the Freimann Life Science Center conducts highly promising tests with a prostate cancer vaccine of his own development.
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The international effort to sequence the genome of the Aedes aegypti mosquito initiated and lead by University of Notre Dame Professor of Biological Science David W. Severson has finished its work.
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Prof.Jack Furdyna receives an honorary doctor of science degree from Purdue University.
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Julia Knight receives Burns Graduate School Award.
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Notre Dame Biologist David Lodge and postdoctoral researcher Reuben Keller, determine whether commercial vendors are contributing to the introduction and growth of invasive species.
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Michael Wiescher named Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.
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Rev. Thomas G. Streit, CSC, director of the University of Notre Dame’s Haiti Program, will receive the University of Portland’s highest honor, the Christus Magister Medal, during the university’s May 6 commencement ceremonies.
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Sunny Boyd, Richard Taylor and Michael Wiescher receive Joyce Awards. Rev. James Foster, C.S.C. receives the Dockweiler Award.
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The first published science result from the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) of a gamma ray burst more than halfway to the Big Bang has a Notre Dame astrophysicist, Peter Garnavich, as its lead author.
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Dr. David Lodge, professor of biological sciences, will testify March 7, before the US House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment on the impact of ship-borne invasive species in the Great Lakes.
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Dr. Zoltan Toroczkai, an associate professor of physics, recently has focused on the fundamental understanding of networks and their applications to the spread of viruses and biological agents of major importance for bioterrorism.
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X-ray bursts are among the most fascinating of astrophysical phenomena. Now, a new finding by a team led by University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Michael Wiescher will enable researchers to derive many more qualitative predictions about X-ray burst behavior and characteristics.
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Jessica Hellmann was one of the first scientists to link global warming to the disappearance of a butterfly population.
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An advance in the emerging field of bacterial imaging, Bradley D. Smith, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame and colleagues are reporting development of a method for identifying specific sites of localized bacterial infections in living animals. This report is scheduled for the January 10, edition of the American Chemical Society, a weekly publication.
Physics Department faculty member, Michael Wiescher, served on National Academies Assessment Committee on the Scientific Opportunities with a Rare-Isotope Facility in the United States.
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Physics Professor Ani Aprahamian is the recipient of the fifth annual Arts and Letters Award of Appreciation given annually to a faculty member or staff person outside the College of Arts and Letters who has contributed significantly to the mission of the College.
Jim Wilson, adjunct professor of physics, has been awarded the Hans Betheprize from the American Physical Society.
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Chemist Mijoon Lee was named the 2006 recipient of the Dr. Karl R. Ruddell Scholarship from the Walther Cancer Institute of Indianapolis.
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Harvey Bender, professor of biological sciences and director of the Human Genetics Program, has been named a "Distinguished Hoosier" by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. The award is one of the highest honors given by the state.
Rev. Thomas G. Streit, CSC, director of Notre Dame's Haiti Program has been named to the inaugural class of ambassadors in the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research.
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Malcom Fraser has been appointed a Fellow of AAAS, the American Assoication for the Advancement of Science.
Notre Dame mathematics professors Matthew J. Gursky and Xiaobo Liu were invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held Aug 22-30 in Madrid, Spain.
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David Lodge, and other researchers, funded by a $1.1 million grant from the Great Lakes Protection Fund, hope to improve ecosystem-wide management of invasive species in the lakes and adjacent inland water bodies.
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Albert-Lászlo Barabási, Hofman Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the recipient of a major computing award from a leading Hungarian information technology society and is the co-editor of a new book on networks.
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A team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Boldizsár Jankó and backed by a new $1.2 million National Science Foundation Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) grant is seeking to solve an enduring mystery in chemical physics.
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A new study by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame astrophysicists Terrence Rettig and Dinshaw Balsara may help solve the mystery on how planets form.
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Harvey Bender, professor of biological sciences and director of the Human Genetics Program at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a "Distinguished Hoosier" by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.
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Professor Frank Connolly receives a $1.45 million federal grant from the NSF which will provide scholarships to sophomores, juniors, and seniors who commit to the Honors Mathematics Program.
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Prashant V. Kamat, a professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been selected as the first prize winner of The Japanese Photochemistry Association Lectureship Award.
2006 Kaneb Teaching Award Winners
A. Alexandrou Himonas, professor of mathematics, has been chosen as the recipient of the Shilts/Leonard Teaching Award.
Bio-organic chemist Shahriar Mobashery announces bacterial cell wall breakthrough.
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Biology professor David M. Lodge is internationally recognized expert on the topic of invasive species and how accidental introduction of foreign species can upset whole ecosystems in areas where they take hold and propagate.
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“What makes the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, so good at transmitting malaria? This is no small question. In fact, it is what motivates Biologist Nora Besansky’s research in the Department of Biological Sciences.
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Biologist Jessica Hellmann recently received a 2006 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty.
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Biologist Malcolm Fraser and his lab collegues identify a way to stop the cycle in which Dengue Fever is transmitted.
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Biologist Joseph O'Tousa and his graduate students working on finding answers to blindness.
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A team of Researchers, led by 1960 graduate Norb Wiech, discover a compound within our cells that plays an important part in the onset of "orphan diseases".
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Rev. Thomas Streit, CSC, receives international acclaim for working to halt the spread of lymphatic filariasis in Haiti.
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Biologist Crislyn D-Souza-Shorey's lab makes progress in carcinoma research.
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Physicist Randal Ruchti was among the founders of QuarkNet, a nationwide program that gives local high school students and their teachers an opportunity to be involved with ongoing experiments.
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Jeffery S. Schorey has recently made important inroads into why a certain mycobacterium becomes so virulent that it has become a major pathogen that kills AIDS patients.
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Student News
Junior Andrew Manion and sophomore Eric Riedl have each been awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2008-09 academic year.
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Mathematics Seniors Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Honorable Mentions.
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Brennan Bollman shares global health insights.
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Adam Boocher Leads Other Math Students to Explore Research
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Patrick Holvey utilizes computational chemistry to analyze water efficiencies.
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Katie Hull has been awarded the Eloise Gerry Fellowship by Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science.
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Biological sciences doctoral candidate Dori Woods receives Shaheen Award.
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Congratulations to Benjamin Fehrman on receiving the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2007-2008 academic year.
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Alumnus Norbert Wiech ('60, '63 MA) is the donor of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department's Outstanding Junior Student award, which was recieved this year by junior Ruth Sommese. Her work may one day help researchers formulate better vaccines.
Jacob Morris wins a Ludo Frevel crystallography scholarship for 2007.
Congratulations to Angela Kohlhaas for receiving the 2006 Richard Sady Prize.
Stephen Atwood is the 2006-2007 Robert P. Balles University of Notre Dame Mathematics Scholar.
Physics doctoral student César Hidalgo and his colleagues have developed a quantitative indicator of box-office numbers in the weeks after a movie release.
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Adam Boocher, a South Bend native and sophomore honors mathematics major, is one of only 323 students in the United States to be awarded the Goldwater scholarship this year.
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Dugald John MacDougall, a recent graduate of Notre Dame’s chemistry PhD program, was awarded the 2005 Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award and a 2005 Rohm and Haas Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
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Pauling Prize awarded to ND Graduate Student, Jacob Morris.
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May 2006 Chemistry Student awards. |
