Erica Gonzales, a graduate student in the Department of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, was conducting her first telescope observations in California in October 2014 when she helped to discover and photograph a rare brown dwarf– an object with mass in between that of stars and planets. Working with her advisor, Prof. Justin R. Crepp, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Physics, Gonzales was able to identify HD 4747 B as an important benchmark for studying objects somewhat smaller than stars. 

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Christopher Cali, an "entrepreneurship master’s (ESTEEM)":http://esteem.nd.edu/ student and a 2014 science-business alumnus, is part of a team that will compete in the Global Venture Labs Investment Competition in Austin, Tex. in May. The group, Enlightened Diagnostics, Inc. (EnDx), "qualified at a regional competition in February at the University of Louisville’s Brown-Forman Cardinal Challenge.":http://science.nd.edu/news/56320-enlightened-diagnosis-win-second-place-in-cardinal-challenge/

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A collaboration among the Hesburgh Libraries, the Graduate School and the Writing Center offered three “boot camps” during fall break--advising undergraduates on senior thesis writing, graduate students on dissertation writing, and other graduate students on grant writing.

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