An Indiana University biologist has been awarded $750,000 to identify the genetic mechanism that makes up a "switch" allowing some genetically identical species to develop strikingly different physical characteristics based on their environment, a phenomenon known as "polyphenism.
Congressional, government and industry leaders will discuss ramifications that the upcoming presidential election could have on insurance regulation at the 12th annual Networks Financial Institute Insurance Public Policy Summit March 17 on the 8th floor of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
The School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University will convene a high-level, two-day conference March 30 and 31 at which about two dozen policy analysts, scholars, political leaders and journalists will consider the critical foreign policy issues that will face the United States’ next president.
Caffeine is the most available and widely used psychoactive substance in the world and is the only drug legally accessible and socially acceptable for consumption by children and adolescents. Some studies have shown that adolescents are the fastest-growing population of caffeine users, with 83.2% consuming caffeinated beverages regularly and at least 96% consuming them occasionally. With this in mind, researchers from Brescia University College developed a study to determine attitudes and beliefs as well as factors influencing caffeinated beverage consumption among adolescents.
Emmy-nominated actor and Indiana University alumnus Jonathan Banks will receive an honorary doctoral degree during the annual IU Bloomington Honors Convocation on April 10.
Researchers found that, all else equal, CSR does in fact benefit firms financially - but it’s also increasingly being practiced by companies to offset “bad” behaviors.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Research led by Indiana University physicist Daria Zieminska has resulted in the first detection of a new form of elementary particle: the "four-flavored" tetraquark.
The first study to find a significant relationship between firearm crime and subsequent applications for, and issuance of, concealed-carry gun permits has been published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no cure. NPC primarily strikes children before and during adolescence and affects one in every 150,000 children. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame used an existing FDA-approved drug in a novel approach to treatment of NPC with promising results.
American College of Sports Medicine, Medical Fitness Association, American Council on Exercise join forces to introduce the “Exercise is Medicine Solution”; Greenville Health System first to adopt program
The gala premiere of “1916: The Irish Rebellion,” a three-part documentary film series produced by the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, will include narrator Liam Neeson, co-producer Briona Nic Dhiarmada and executive producer Christopher Fox.
Fourteen University of Notre Dame students have been awarded Fulbright grants in the 2015-16 program, placing the University among the top-producing universities in the nation. The Fulbright program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. It awards a one-year postgraduate fellowship for research, study or teaching English abroad.
A research team, led by an IU School of Health and Rehabilitation faculty member at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has determined that adapted yoga is both feasible and beneficial for adults with stroke or traumatic brain injury.
A 68-year-old Evansville, Ind., man is the first to benefit from a transformative Indiana University School of Dentistry process of fabricating artificial facial parts using digital technology.
To help individuals, families and small-business owners understand and improve their finances, the University of Notre Dame is bringing together national experts from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the financial wellness industry for Financial Security Day on Feb. 25.
Enhanced levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are a likely key driver of global dryland greening, according to a paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports.
Michel Hockx, currently professor of Chinese and director of the China Institute at SOAS, University of London, has been appointed director of the University of Notre Dame’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies within the new Keough School of Global Affairs. He will join the Notre Dame faculty in August 2016.
Three faculty members at the University of Notre Dame Law School who have clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13 at the age of 79, say he will be missed.
A study reported Feb. 12 in the journal PLOS Biology employs genome-wide sequencing to reveal highly specific details about the evolutionary mechanisms that drove genetic divergence in 13 species of wild tomatoes that share a recent common ancestor.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The National Sports Journalism Center is welcoming Hall of Fame sports writer Bob Ryan, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Fox Sports President Eric Shanks to Indiana University next week as part of a special week of activities for students about the media and sports. The center, based in The Media School at IU, also is organizing a panel about careers in sports journalism featuring the editor of ESPN the Magazine, reporters for Sports Illustrated, WTTV-4 and other outlets, as well as demonstrating new advanced video technologies being used by students.
Scientists at Indiana University have modified a plant gene that normally fights bacterial infection to confer resistance to a virus. The method, described in a paper to be published Feb. 12 in the journal Science, is the first time a plant’s innate defense system has been altered to deliver resistance to a new disease.
From paper towels to cups to plastic bottles, products made from recycled materials permeate our lives. One notable exception is building materials. Why can’t we recycle concrete from our deteriorating infrastructure for use as material in new buildings and bridges? It’s a question that a team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame is examining.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders’ standing among black voters could receive a boost with the expected endorsement of Benjamin Jealous, who served as president of the NAACP from 2008 to 2013. Darren Davis, a professor of political science and an associate vice president for research at the University of Notre Dame, notes that political endorsements are primarily symbolic, but Jealous’ endorsement is more symbolic than most.
Clocking in at work at 9 a.m. and being out by 5 p.m. isn't the perfect lifestyle for everyone and surely not for 2008 Indiana State University graduate Chris Penn.
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame has awarded the 2016 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies to Mark Thompson for his book “Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš,” published by Cornell University Press. A. James McAdams, director of the Nanovic Institute, praised the book as “an extraordinarily imaginative book that shows us how biography can provide a lens into understanding major historical crises.”
When Pope Francis travels to Mexico Feb. 12-17, he will visit six cities — including two in the state of Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state — and will celebrate a Mass in Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A University of Notre Dame expert calls this a "defining trip" for the pope.
In a new paper, an Indiana University professor and two co-authors study where Bernie Madoff’s fraud case left its deepest impact and on whom — not just among his direct victims, but also on how others viewed the trustworthiness of financial markets.
Thursday, Feb. 4, marks World Cancer Day. M. Sharon Stack, director of the Harper Cancer Research Institute, says the 14.5 million cancer survivors alive today "stand in ready testament to the fact that research cures cancer."
The 2015 edition of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is now available. Produced by an Indiana University research center, it is the most comprehensive review of institutional diversity at more than 4,660 colleges and universities in the United States.
Research from Indiana University published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has identified a genetic mechanism that is likely to drive mutations that can lead to cancer.
A study of North American auto production over a seven-year period finds that using overtime and increasing the number of factory-installed options are positively associated with manufacturing-related recalls. The study, accepted for publication in the journal Management Science, found that the economic cost of extremely high factory utilization -- operating near or at overtime levels -- translates into a recall cost of $167 million over seven years.
As the Super Bowl marks its 50th anniversary, deciding whether to spring for an ad is tougher than ever for companies. Frank Germann, an assistant professor of marketing in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, says the decision is easier when broken down into a cost per impressions.
University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Nicolas Lehner and his collaborators have now determined that the Smith Cloud, a giant gas cloud plummeting toward the Milky Way, contains elements similar to our sun, which means the cloud originated in the Milky Way’s outer edges and not in intergalactic space as some have speculated.
Group A Streptococcus, a pathogen responsible for a variety of diseases, remains a global health burden with an estimated more than half a million deaths annually due to severe infections. University of Notre Dame researchers have found a new avenue to pursue treatment possibilities.
Thursday (Jan. 28) during a Hubble Hangout, University of Notre Dame astrophysicist Nicolas Lehner will discuss a new study about high velocity clouds around the Milky Way Galaxy that were jettisoned and are falling back in.
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and Alliance Manchester Business School in the United Kingdom announced that they are launching a joint MBA program leading to degrees from both institutions.
Corporate philanthropy benefits organizations in many ways. But does corporate philanthropy do anything to benefit a business’s employees? Research from the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business says yes.
University of Notre Dame researchers have reported the discovery of a major population of the mosquito species Aedes aegypti, the species capable of carrying tropical diseases such as Zika virus, dengue fever and chikungunya, in a Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, D.C. To add insult to injury, the team identified genetic evidence that these mosquitoes have overwintered for at least the past four years, meaning they are adapting for persistence in a northern climate well out of their normal range.
A little over two years after the College Board released research rebutting findings by an Indiana University Kelley School of Business professor concerning the board's testing methods, the professor and his colleagues have raised new questions in a paper about test bias, based on the testing service’s own data.
A team of researchers has observed the brightest ultra metal-poor star ever discovered. The star is a rare relic from the Milky Way’s formative years. As such, it offers astronomers a precious opportunity to explore the origin of the first stars that sprung to life within our galaxy and the universe.
Giving to education is expected to grow by 6.3 percent this year and by an additional 6.1 percent next year, according to The Philanthropy Outlook 2016 & 2017, a new report by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.