Mary Galvin to step down as dean of Notre Dame’s College of Science
Mary Galvin, the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, will step down from the position effective Dec. 31.
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Notre Dame pivots funding and research to tackle COVID-19
The Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics (AD&T) research center announced new awards that will enable faculty researchers to pivot or expand their existing research to address the detection, diagnosis, treatment, or prognosis of COVID-19 viral infections and related serious medical conditions.
How T-cell targets look in three dimensions may facilitate new cancer vaccines
T-cells, which hunt for traces of disease within other cells, work by identifying fragments of outsider proteins on a diseased cell’s surface and then go in for the literal kill.
With cancer, some of the mutated fragments of outsider proteins, called neoepitopes, can be recognized by T-cells and are ideal candidates for cancer vaccines. Unfortunately, those candidates are difficult to predict from genetic data alone.
A study published this month in Nature Chemical Biology by Brian Baker, the Rev. John A. Zahm Professor of Structural Biology and chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, and collaborator Alexandre Harari at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Lausanne, Switzerland shows that to improve those predictions and develop cancer vaccines, researchers need to think more about what neoepitopes look like in three dimensions.
I am Here: Kelley M. H. Young
Editor’s note: As classes resume on campus during this unprecedented time, faculty and staff members are, as always, HERE for Notre Dame students. Whether work is done physically on campus or remotely, the collective purpose remains to offer an unsurpassed undergraduate education that nurtures the mind, body and spirit; and to advance human understanding through scholarship, research and post-baccalaureate programs that heal, unify and enlighten. …
Melander Lab Reports Compound that Increases Antibiotic Efficacy for MRSA
Christian Melander, George & Winifred Clark Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and Roberta Melander, Research Associate Professor, with Professor Cassandra Quave and colleagues from Emory University, have reported new research showing that an extract from the American beautyberry plant increases the efficacy of certain antibiotics in the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Adam Jaffe to Join Faculty in 2021
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Dr. Adam Jaffe to the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Materials Chemistry. Jaffe is currently completing an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California Berkeley with Prof. Jeffrey Long, studying the separation of O2…
Francis Castellino Receives 2020 ISTH Esteemed Career Award
Francis J. Castellino, Kleiderer-Pezold Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Transgene Research, has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Esteemed Career Award. This prestigious award is given to those who “have made significant contributions to the understanding, treatment and diagnosis, research and education in the thrombosis and hemostasis field.” Five recipients are selected annually.
Notre Dame launches materials science and engineering doctoral degree program
Students can now earn a distinctive, interdisciplinary doctoral degree in materials science and engineering through the College of Engineering and the College of Science.
2020 Naughton awardees announced
Twenty-three students and faculty have been announced as awardees of the Naughton Fellowships for 2020.
Student research to combat cancer, COVID-19 inflammatory reaction
Two students from the University of Notre Dame have received fellowships through the Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics' Berry Family Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program.
Gezelter named College of Science associate dean of undergraduate studies
Dan Gezelter, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named associate dean for undergraduate studies for the University of Notre Dame College of Science, effective July 1, 2020.
Dye Boosts Bioimaging Capability
Fluorescence imaging has been a boon to research and medicine because of its ability to examine affected areas noninvasively. But the dyes used for these purposes have their disadvantages, and as resolution needs have grown stronger, the stakes for accuracy have increased exponentially.
…Understand and Fight: Notre Dame researchers and the COVID-19 pandemic
As Notre Dame’s laboratories went into hibernation in March, many researchers from various fields — chemistry, engineering, political science, psychology, education — looked for ways to pivot their own work toward furthering knowledge into how COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, works, how it’s transmitted, and how our country and world can cope with the unexpected pandemic crisis. They decided to jump into the research at different times, but for the same reason: They knew they could help.
Gregory Hartland Named Deputy Editor of Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Gregory Hartland, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, has been named Deputy Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry C of the American Chemical Society. The journal focuses on experimental and computational physical chemistry research in energy conversion and storage, heterogeneous catalysis, and the spectroscopy and physical properties of solid-state and nanomaterials.
Congratulations Chemistry & Biochemistry Award Winners
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is pleased to congratulate our senior award winners for the 2019-2020 academic year.
NDnano announces 2020 seed grant recipients
Six faculty from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters, College of Engineering, and College of Science have been awarded two grants through the NDnano Seed Grant Program.
Steven Corcelli Receives 2020 Thomas P. Madden Award
Steven Corcelli, Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and Faculty Development, has been selected as the 2020 recipient of the Thomas P. Madden Award. This award honors the faculty member who contributed the most to the teaching of first-year students.
Daniel Gezelter Receives 2020 Shilts/Leonard Teaching Award
J. Daniel Gezelter, professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, is the 2020 recipient of the Father James L. Shilts, C.S.C./Doris and Gene Leonard Teaching Award. This award, given by the Notre Dame College of Science, recognizes excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Marya Lieberman receives 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr Award
Marya Lieberman, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is the 2020 winner of the Reinhold Niebuhr Award in acknowledgement of her work on Paper Analytical Devices (PADs). This award recognizes a faculty member or administrator whose life and body of academic work promotes or exemplifies the pursuit of social justice in modern life.
Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty Members Honored with Joyce Teaching Awards
Professors Jon Camden, Daniel Gezelter, and Paul Helquist have been selected as recipients of the 2020 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.