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| 940 Grace Hall. Notre Dame, IN 46556 Contact: Jessica Brookshire, jbrooksh@nd.edu https://www.nd.edu/ |
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The University of Notre Dame was founded in 1842 by Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., a priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a French missionary order. Fr. Sorin believed, “This college will be one of the most powerful means for doing good in this country.” Located adjacent to South Bend in northern Indiana, the University of Notre Dame has a vibrant ecosystem of scholars, and it shines brightly through research that combines expertise from its diverse researchers to make advancements across many STEM disciplines. The University’s four foundational and enduring goals are interconnected by our Catholic Character and commitment to Undergraduate Education and Formation, Graduate Education and Research and Scholarship. • Goal I. Ensure that our Catholic character informs all our endeavors • Goal II. Offer an unsurpassed undergraduate education that nurtures the formation of mind, body, and spirit. • Goal III. Provide superb graduate and professional programs that exhibit disciplinary excellence, foster interdisciplinary connections, and engage the world’s most pressing problems, while attending to the holistic development of the student. • Goal IV. Advance human understanding through scholarship and research that seeks to heal, unify, and enlighten. We are proud of our recognized research enterprise. The University received $244M in awards in FY22. The University’s research profile has grown while focusing on a number of strategically important fields of study to deepen and engage with the community, including a commitment to address global and community issues including, Poverty, Health Disparities, Well-being, Education, Food Insecurity, Housing, Sustainability, Cancer, Mental Health and more. In the following table, we have highlighted various Centers and Institutes to highlight our work and invite engagement to collaborate: |
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Organization |
Role/Mission |
Contact email |
Areas for collaboration |
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| Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health (BIPH) |
Seeks to prevent and treat disease, promote wellness, and reduce health disparities by developing new tools to understand human variability at the molecular and cellular levels. | Arnie Phifer, aphifer@nd.edu |
Projects associated with: Point of Use Platforms |
| Center for Civic Innovation (CCI) | To address community-identified civic priorities in our region by integrating principles of design and innovation from engineering and the social sciences into interdisciplinary research and education projects. | Jay Brockman jbb@nd.edu |
The Center for Civic Innovation research agenda is driven by regional needs and national interests, with broad research domains including: Data-informed decision support for community development. |
| Children's Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) | Leads multiple environmental and public health research projects emphasizing the special vulnerabilities of children. CEHI projects focus on incorporating innovative spatial analysis in combination with field-based sampling into environmental and public health research. CEHI maintains a deep institutional commitment to issues of social justice and thus focuses much of its work in low income and minority communities. | cehi@nd.edu |
Use of spatial design of environmental health research. CEHI's long-term vision is to forge a whole new approach to addressing environmental health issues. CEHI has developed, maintains, and extends an extensive fully spatially referenced data architecture on environmental health. This makes it possible to jointly consider diverse variables collected by different disciplines, creating the opportunity to explore the complex and dynamic relationships among the components of health. Projects associated with: Innovative and flexible data architectures, statistical method development, characterization of exposomes and social correlates of health |
| Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) | Serves as a university-wide enterprise that recognizes health as a fundamental human right and works to promote research, training, and service to advance health standards and reduce health disparities for all. Brings together multidisciplinary teams to understand and address health challenges that disproportionately affect the poor and to train the next generation of global health leaders. | Kelly Thomson kthomson@nd.edu | The Eck Global Health has four objectives: • Serve as a central organizing and coordinating Institute for global health activities across the University • Generate and share knowledge to address health problems endemic to the global poor • Train a new generation of global health researchers • Undertake service and service-learning in global health |
| Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) | The fight against cancer requires a team-approach and HCRI brings researchers and clinicians from several different backgrounds to help create efficient and effective research team. HCRI serves as a conduit that translates basic laboratory science into advances in clinical cancer care by engaging partners in academia and industry. HCRI is dedicated to training the next generation of cancer researchers | Aviva Wulfsohn awulfsoh@nd.edu | Innovative and integrative research confronting the complex challenges of cancer. The majority of research at HCRI is divided between these two research programs: • Tumor-Host Communication • Mechanisms of Tumor Targeting |
| IDEA Center | Notre Dame’s collaborative innovation hub dedicated to expanding the technological and societal impact of the University’s innovations through nurturing and facilitating the movement of the best ideas of faculty, staff, and students from discovery to commercial application. | James Thompson jthomp22@nd.edu |
The Center provides the necessary space, services, and expertise for idea development, commercialization, business formation, prototyping, entrepreneurial education, and student entrepreneurial efforts. The Center is open to any University researcher and student with an idea they want to commercialize. Future focus is to increase the number of life-science and medical technologies. |
| Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society (LFIDS) |
Notre Dame's intellectual, interdisciplinary hub for students, faculty, and research scientists, an incubator for existing and emerging data science and analytics programs across the colleges, and a collaborator with leaders from industry, government, and academia to advance data innovations and to help transform society and individual lives. Combining core capabilities in data science, network science, artificial intelligence and statistical and mathematical modeling enables research teams aligned toward specific societal challenges that translate out of research and into practice. |
lucyinstitute@nd.edu | Projects requiring or associated with: • AI and Ethics • Computational Biology and Chemistry • Health and Well Being (i.e., child malnutrition, successful aging) • Molecular Synthesis • Neural Science and Brain Networks • Social and Information Systems (i.e., Social Sensing, Using Smart Devices to Capture the Emotionality of Offline Communication, Dynamics of Human Behavior) |
| Pulte Institute for Global Development |
The Pulte Institute for Global Development — an integral part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame — combines the existing world-class teaching and research faculty of Notre Dame with a dedicated staff of experienced international development professionals, administrators, and researchers in order to address global poverty and inequality through policy, practice, and partnership. The Pulte Institute cuts across academic fields to produce multidisciplinary knowledge on complex development challenges in areas related to: Sustainability; Humanitarianism; Effective States and Development; Business in Development; and Global Health. |
Paul Perrin pperrin@nd.edu |
The Pulte Institute’s vision is to enhance human dignity, equity, and well-being for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations by addressing today’s most compelling global issues. Mission: The Pulte Institute works to address global poverty and inequality through policy, practice, and partnership. The Pulte Institute has identified five new domains of thematic focus to expand its level of investment: The Institute’s active and past project information can be accessed at https://pulte.nd.edu/projects/ |
| William J. Shaw Center for Children & Families (Shaw) |
An integrated research and clinical services center dedicated to the advancement and wellbeing of children and families in both our local community and around the world. Translate science into practice by providing and evaluating evidence-based prevention, intervention, and clinical services. |
Jen Burke Lefever jburke2@nd.edu | Projects associated with: • Child maltreatment • Intimate partner violence • Couples’ communications • Sensitive parenting • Minority youth mental health • Food insecurity |
| Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) | LEO believes that academic researchers, service providers, and policymakers all play a critical role in ending poverty. LEO matches top researchers with passionate leaders in social service agencies to conduct impact evaluations that identify the innovative, effective, and scalable programs and policies that help people move permanently out of poverty. | Heather Reynolds hreynol5@nd.edu |
LEO is a domestic anti-poverty research lab committed to reducing poverty and improving lives through evidence-based programs and policies. LEO’s impact evaluations generate evidence that is shared with social service organizations, policymakers, funders, and others who can put it to use to help move more families out of poverty. LEO performs research in six focus areas: |
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In addition to the various Centers and Institutes, The Notre Dame Health and Well-being Initiative (HWI, hwi.nd.edu) was created to focus the University’s current efforts and to seek new opportunities to connect individual research programs to broad, significant, and emerging health-related challenges. The Office of Clinical Partnerships (https://hwi.nd.edu/about/office-of-clinical-partnerships/) was built to serve as a connector for external partners and campus colleagues to partner in the areas of education, research and scholarship related to health and well-being. Jessica Brookshire, Senior Program Director in the Office of Clinical Partnerships is available to assist with questions and opportunities regarding HWI and campus collaborations. The University of Notre Dame is a partner with the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI, https://indianactsi.org/), a statewide collaboration that works to promote and support translational research through strong collaboration and making research connections across Indiana. The Indiana CTSI is dedicated to leveraging and strengthening the state’s life sciences community to achieve better health for people in Indiana. Notre Dame is also home to the Indiana CTSI Structural and Social Determinants of Health Project Development Team (PDT, https://hwi.nd.edu/indiana-ctsi/) that comprises multidisciplinary faculty members from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University, and Purdue University. This PDT supports basic, clinical and translational research that: Enables a deeper understanding of how social, economic, and environmental contexts shape patterns of health and wellness, including onset of diseases and disorders, within communities; and informs effective treatments and interventions to promote equitable opportunities for good health and wellbeing. Through interdisciplinary work and expertise in hard sciences as well as data science, analytics and policy, we are well suited to lead and collaborate to improve the health of Indiana. For assistance in connecting or discussing opportunities, please contact Jessica Brookshire (jbrooksh@nd.edu). |