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Noted conductor and artist Carmen-Helena Tellez joins Notre Dame faculty

Author: Joanna Basile

In July 2012, scholar, conductor and interdisciplinary artist Carmen-Helena Tellez will join the University of Notre Dame as a professor in the "Department of Music":http://music.nd.edu/ and in the "Master of Sacred Music":http://theology.nd.edu/graduate-program/master-of-sacred-music/ program in the "Department of Theology":http://www.theology.nd.edu.

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Notre Dame researchers demonstrate new DNA detection technique

Author: William G. Gilroy

A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame have demonstrated a novel DNA detection method that could prove suitable for many real-world applications. Physicists "Carol Tanner":http://physics.nd.edu/people/faculty/carol-e-tanner/ and "Steven Ruggiero":http://physics.nd.edu/people/faculty/steven-t-ruggiero/ led the team in the application of a new technique called laser transmission spectroscopy (LTS). LTS is capable of rapidly determining the size, shape and number of nanoparticles in suspension.

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Ethics Workshop Scheduled For First-Year Graduate and Professional Students

Author: Mary Hendriksen

An ethics initiative was passed in 2010 to integrate ethics training into the core curriculum for all graduate students at Notre Dame. One component of that initiative, the workshop will feature small-group sessions and a keynote address from Alasdair MacIntyre, one of the world's leading authorities on ethics.

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Notre Dame Signs Historic Agreement For Graduate Studies in Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Notre Dame and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) have entered into a unique agreement - the first of its kind at Notre Dame - to provide a dual degree to students in the Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences fields.

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Notre Dame researchers lead collaborative team to study bacteria movement

Author: Paul Murphy

p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/52531/mark_alber_comp.jpg(Mark Alber)! An interdisciplinary collaboration of six researchers, including four from Notre Dame, have received a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study the interplay of motility mechanisms during swarming of the bacterium _Myxococcus xanthus_. Their study is essential to understanding how millions of bacteria function in real environments. "Mark Alber":http://physics.nd.edu/people/faculty/mark-alber/, the Vincent J. Duncan Family Professor of Applied Mathematics and director of the "Center for Study of Biocomplexity":http://nd.edu/~icsb/ at the University of Notre Dame, is principal investigator of the team.

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Controlling gene expression to halt cancer growth

Author: Paul Murphy

p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/48192/wiest_olaf_web_comp.jpg(Olaf Wiest)! NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a cancer without a cure, and one that affects all age groups. NMC is a rapid-growth disease with an average survival time of four and a half months after diagnosis, making the development of clinical trials for potential therapies or cures for this cancer difficult, to say the least. But difficult doesn’t mean impossible, and "Olaf Wiest":http://newsinfo.nd.edu/for-the-media/nd-experts/faculty/olaf-wiest/, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, is one of a group of collaborators studying the effects of a specific molecule (JQ1) on the trigger that controls the growth of this form of cancer.

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Environmental symposium to focus on energy and the environment

Author: William G. Gilroy

p. The sixth annual symposium on Notre Dame Environmental Education and Research (NDEER) will be held Wednesday (Oct 10) from 8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in the Universitys McKenna Hall auditorium. p. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Energy Center, the Office of Research, the Seng Foundation Endowment for Market Based…

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GLOBES Students' Website in the News

Author: Kevin Zeise

Three GLOBES (Global Linkages of Biology, the Environment and Society) students have launched a new website, "www.invasivores.org":http://www.invasivores.org, that hosts a collection of recipes for cooking with invasive species. Their website has received attention in recent months, including a recent mention in the Forbes Magazine blog, "Eat Your Weeds."

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Student Spotlight: Deacon Jim Stokes, M.A. Candidate in Theology / Liturgical Studies

Author: Mary Hendriksen

Deacon Jim Stokes, an attorney admitted to practice law in Florida and California, was ordained a Roman Catholic deacon in August 2008. “I had the benefit of some excellent professors as I was formed for ministry at the seminaries in South Florida,” Deacon Jim says, “however, it left me hungering for more.”

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