Research
Building on its strong tradition of undergraduate teaching and graduate studies, Notre Dame is now strengthening its research enterprise with dramatically increased resources and new state–of–the–art facilities. External funding has doubled since 2000, now standing at $83 million annually. This is a rare achievement for a university without a medical school, but the growth trend continues.
Working in an atmosphere that encourages the pursuit of knowledge as truth, scholars strive for distinguished achievement in the sciences, professions, and humanities. For example, Notre Dame faculty members have won 37 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities during the past nine years, more than at any other university.
Examining just a slice of ongoing research at Notre Dame, one would find work in genome sequencing, the dynamics of financial trading systems, the impact of school characteristics on student achievement, and the relationship of marketing trends to society, especially children. There are hundreds of other endeavors, with faculty laboring in campus laboratories, war zones, remote archeological digs, and across the African continent.
In his September 2005 inaugural address, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., President of the University, articulated his vision of Notre Dame: “a great Catholic university for the 21st century, one of the pre–eminent research institutions in the world, a center for learning whose intellectual and religious traditions converge to make it a healing, unifying, enlightening force for a world deeply in need. This is our goal.”
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Creating Breakthroughs
Frank Collins, the George and Winifred Clark Chair in Biological Sciences, is marshalling researchers from all over the world to genetically research both Anopheles gambiae, a mosquito species, and plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite, in a way that finally cuts the link between pathogen, mosquito, and man. Visit the Department of Biological Sciences >
Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND)
In March 2008 Governor Mitch Daniels announced the establishment of the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND), a new research consortium led by the University of Notre Dame and designed to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device, which will be the basic building block of future computers. Direct support for MIND from the public and private sectors and the participating universities will total more than $25 million over three years. Read press release >
