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Newswise: Nanoparticle ‘Backpacks’ Restore Damaged Stem Cells
Released: 7-Jul-2022 10:30 AM EDT
Nanoparticle ‘Backpacks’ Restore Damaged Stem Cells
University of Notre Dame

Bioengineers at the University of Notre Dame have shown that a new strategy can restore damaged stem cells and enable them to grow new tissues again.

Newswise: First Multigenerational Study of Head Start Shows Significant Gains for Second Generation
Released: 21-Jun-2022 11:20 AM EDT
First Multigenerational Study of Head Start Shows Significant Gains for Second Generation
University of Notre Dame

When assessing the children of the first generation of Head Start participants, Notre Dame researcher Chloe Gibbs, saw decreases in teen parenthood and criminal engagement and increases in educational attainment, which correspond to an estimated 6 to 11 percent increase in wages through age 50.

Newswise: Multi-Decade Research Links Fathers’ Testosterone Production to Their Adolescent Experiences with Their Own Fathers
Released: 31-May-2022 3:05 PM EDT
Multi-Decade Research Links Fathers’ Testosterone Production to Their Adolescent Experiences with Their Own Fathers
University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame's Lee Gettler and his collaborators have drawn on data collected over more than 30 years from almost 1,000 men in the Philippines to help shed light on the importance of adolescence and father-son experiences to sons’ adult testosterone patterns.

Newswise: Follow the science? Consumers aren’t always impressed with scientifically developed products, study shows
Released: 9-May-2022 8:05 AM EDT
Follow the science? Consumers aren’t always impressed with scientifically developed products, study shows
University of Notre Dame

Sometimes consumers like products created with science and other times they do not, and new research from the University of Notre Dame shows that it all depends on what the marketer is trying to sell: sensory pleasure or practicality.

Newswise: Pulte Institute launches Central America Research Alliance
Released: 3-May-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Pulte Institute launches Central America Research Alliance
University of Notre Dame

The Pulte Institute for Global Development at the University of Notre Dame has launched the Central America Research Alliance (CARA): a network focused on delivering evidence-based advocacy by amplifying the work of Central American scholars and practitioners.

Newswise: Rise in Trust of Institutions Led to Boost in Entrepreneurial Intent, Especially Among STEM Undergraduates
Released: 6-Apr-2022 12:25 PM EDT
Rise in Trust of Institutions Led to Boost in Entrepreneurial Intent, Especially Among STEM Undergraduates
University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame’s Yong Suk Lee studied how former South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s 2016 impeachment due to corruption and abuse of power affected people’s trust in government institutions.

Newswise: Loud and clear: High-energy ads keep viewers tuned in, study shows
Released: 5-Apr-2022 4:00 PM EDT
Loud and clear: High-energy ads keep viewers tuned in, study shows
University of Notre Dame

More energetic commercials are likely to be tuned in more or avoided less by viewers, according to research from Joonhyuk Yang, assistant professor of marketing at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business.

Newswise: Political motivation often comes down to personal assessment of other races’ deservingness
Released: 30-Mar-2022 3:40 PM EDT
Political motivation often comes down to personal assessment of other races’ deservingness
University of Notre Dame

While maybe not racially prejudiced, a broad swath of American citizens nonetheless do and say things that racists do, according to a new University of Notre Dame study.

Newswise: New pathway for DNA transfer discovered in tumor microenvironment
Released: 25-Mar-2022 4:25 PM EDT
New pathway for DNA transfer discovered in tumor microenvironment
University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame researchers have discovered another way tumor cells transfer genetic material to other cells in their microenvironment, causing cancer to spread.

Newswise: With land grabs comes competition for water — and local farmers are likely to lose
Released: 21-Mar-2022 4:30 PM EDT
With land grabs comes competition for water — and local farmers are likely to lose
University of Notre Dame

New research from Notre Dame shows large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia's Omo River region could threaten water resources downstream to the local farmers and Indigenous populations living along the Omo.

Newswise: Charities can benefit by giving contributors more control over their donations, study shows
Released: 16-Mar-2022 9:40 AM EDT
Charities can benefit by giving contributors more control over their donations, study shows
University of Notre Dame

Donors feel more personal control over how their time (versus money) is used, according to new research from the University of Notre Dame

Newswise: Novel study linking undocumented immigrants with primary care services significantly reduces emergency department use
Released: 14-Mar-2022 3:25 PM EDT
Novel study linking undocumented immigrants with primary care services significantly reduces emergency department use
University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame Assistant Professor Adrienne Sabety and a colleague from MIT partnered with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to determine how access to primary care would affect both undocumented immigrants’ health and the use of emergency departments for routine care.

Newswise: With no political home, ‘seamless garment Catholics’ still hold ‘paramount importance’
Released: 10-Mar-2022 2:30 PM EST
With no political home, ‘seamless garment Catholics’ still hold ‘paramount importance’
University of Notre Dame

New research from the University of Notre Dame looks at so-called seamless garment Catholics (SGCs), or those Catholics who embrace the Church’s policy positions on both sides of the political spectrum.

Newswise: New book addresses dangers of technological warfare, provides recommendations for avoiding rush into conflict
Released: 10-Mar-2022 11:55 AM EST
New book addresses dangers of technological warfare, provides recommendations for avoiding rush into conflict
University of Notre Dame

Retired Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff, an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame, offers context and advice on modern warfare and how to “step back from the brink” of war in his book “Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War.”

Newswise: Study examines ‘bathroom bill’ to reveal implications of CEO sociopolitical activism
Released: 21-Feb-2022 4:35 PM EST
Study examines ‘bathroom bill’ to reveal implications of CEO sociopolitical activism
University of Notre Dame

CEO activism can be a net positive for firms, but only when a majority of employees are in agreement with the CEO, according to research from lead author Adam Wowak and John Busenbark, management professors in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, along with Donald Hambrick from Penn State University.

Newswise: Chemical history of the Milky Way revealed by new catalog of tens of millions of stars
Released: 10-Feb-2022 4:45 PM EST
Chemical history of the Milky Way revealed by new catalog of tens of millions of stars
University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a new sample catalog of more than 24 million stars that can be used to decipher the chemical history of elements in the Milky Way galaxy.

Newswise: Brain shortcuts may be partially to blame for vaccine and mask non-compliance
Released: 3-Feb-2022 2:15 PM EST
Brain shortcuts may be partially to blame for vaccine and mask non-compliance
University of Notre Dame

Theodore Beauchaine and his colleagues break down the cognitive shortcuts that can affect how we assess risk and decide to behave in the face of the pandemic in a recent paper in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

Newswise: Supportive early childhood environments can help decrease effects of trauma, study finds
Released: 18-Jan-2022 2:35 PM EST
Supportive early childhood environments can help decrease effects of trauma, study finds
University of Notre Dame

In a first-of-its-kind study conducted by Darcia Narvaez and doctoral student Mary Tarsha and published in the journal Anxiety, Stress and Coping, results show that positive childhood experiences can help buffer the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on physiological health in adult women.

Newswise: Advertising plays key role in satellite TV success, study shows
Released: 10-Jan-2022 10:05 AM EST
Advertising plays key role in satellite TV success, study shows
University of Notre Dame

A new study from the University of Notre Dame documents the role of advertising to help explain satellite operators’ continued success.

Newswise: New cell, shown to regulate heart rate, discovered at University of Notre Dame
Released: 18-Nov-2021 2:45 PM EST
New cell, shown to regulate heart rate, discovered at University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame discovered a new type of cell in the heart that may help regulate heart rate, and could be an important key in understanding certain types of congenital heart defects and other diseases that involve the heart.

Newswise: Gay men earn the most undergraduate and graduate degrees in the US, study shows
Released: 18-Nov-2021 12:15 PM EST
Gay men earn the most undergraduate and graduate degrees in the US, study shows
University of Notre Dame

A new study from a University of Notre Dame researcher reveals how, without including sexuality, broad statements about gender and education are incomplete and misleading.

Released: 15-Nov-2021 4:55 PM EST
Parent empowerment — not regulatory overreach — key to private school choice accountability, report argues
University of Notre Dame

Research from Nicole Stelle Garnett, the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, underscores the fine line between ensuring academic accountability and curtailing private schools’ autonomy and recommends two guiding principles for accountability regulations.

Released: 10-Nov-2021 3:35 PM EST
Disclosures on auditor firings are useless in forecasting restatement trouble, study shows
University of Notre Dame

While most seasoned investors realize that companies tend to be cagey about their reasons for firing auditors, research from Notre Dame finds the disclosures are useless to an extreme.

Newswise: Environmental policy expert explores the promise of forests to alleviate poverty
Released: 4-Nov-2021 4:50 PM EDT
Environmental policy expert explores the promise of forests to alleviate poverty
University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame's Daniel C. Miller and his colleagues highlight the uneven distribution of the harmful effects that deforestation has on local people who rely on forests.

Released: 3-Nov-2021 11:25 AM EDT
US State Department grants new funding to Peace Accords Matrix
University of Notre Dame

The grant continues CSO support for the PAM team’s first-of-its-kind work to provide real-time monitoring of the Colombian peace process, and sets up a framework for continued partnership over the next five years.

Newswise: Desierto named chair-rapporteur of UN expert group finalizing first human rights treaty in nearly a decade
Released: 2-Nov-2021 1:30 PM EDT
Desierto named chair-rapporteur of UN expert group finalizing first human rights treaty in nearly a decade
University of Notre Dame

Diane Desierto, professor of law and global affairs in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, was named chair-rapporteur of the United Nations’ Expert Group on the Right to Development, with her official mandate starting in January.

Released: 27-Oct-2021 11:30 AM EDT
Data from months in a fog paint a clearer picture for future forecasts
University of Notre Dame

C-FOG researchers recently identified several components of conventional weather models that had been leading to erroneous predictions relating to fog.

Released: 26-Oct-2021 4:10 PM EDT
A new 3D printing frontier: Self-powered wearable devices
University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame researchers have created an innovative hybrid printing method — combining multi-material aerosol jet printing and extrusion printing — that integrates both functional and structural materials into a single streamlined printing platform.

Newswise: Marketing strategies can help overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, study shows
Released: 19-Oct-2021 4:40 PM EDT
Marketing strategies can help overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, study shows
University of Notre Dame

New research from the University of Notre Dame suggests that experts from varying fields need to work together to overcome the public health crisis and that science can benefit by using marketing strategies with vaccine holdouts, much like brands do with customers.

   
Released: 18-Oct-2021 12:40 PM EDT
Researchers successfully build four-legged swarm robots
University of Notre Dame

In research published in Science Robotics, Ozkan-Aydin presents how she was able to build multi-legged robots capable of maneuvering in challenging environments and accomplishing difficult tasks collectively, mimicking their natural-world counterparts.

Released: 18-Oct-2021 10:00 AM EDT
Aging breast tissue could set the stage for invasive breast cancer
University of Notre Dame

A new study led by researchers at the University of Notre Dame examines how the extracellular matrix (ECM) — an underlying network of molecules and proteins that provide the structure for tissue growth — can trigger invasive cancer-related genes.

Released: 13-Oct-2021 12:35 PM EDT
Keough School partners with Truman Foundation to provide annual global affairs scholarship
University of Notre Dame

The Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame is partnering with the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation to offer a full scholarship to a Truman Scholar.

Released: 1-Oct-2021 9:55 AM EDT
Low-cost, portable device could diagnose heart attacks in minutes
University of Notre Dame

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Florida have developed a sensor that could diagnose a heart attack in less than 30 minutes, according to a study published in Lab on a Chip.

Released: 21-Sep-2021 2:55 PM EDT
For hurricane victims, prolonged disruption of utilities, limited preparation lead to longer recovery times
University of Notre Dame

Studying major hurricanes Notre Dame researcher, Sisi Meng, found that the fate of hurricane victims depends on a number of factors including how well-prepared they are, whether they have weathered a hurricane before and how quickly their utility services are restored.



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