Three Notre Dame Research Centers

ITEM 8 · 1977–PRESENT

NDnano — Notre Dame's Center for Nano Science and Technology, formally established in 1999 under founding director Gerry Iafrate (Wolfgang Porod succeeding in 2001; Alan Seabaugh director from January 2018), built on Lent and Porod's quantum-dot cellular automata work; in March 2008 the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Nanoelectronics Research Initiative selected Notre Dame to lead the multi-university Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND), housed from 2010 in Stinson-Remick Hall with its 9,000-square-foot clean room; the center stands today at more than eighty affiliated faculty across nine departments. The Wireless Institute — established January 2010 in the College of Engineering under founding director J. Nicholas Laneman, expressly on the Green inheritance of item 1; it now leads SpectrumX, the National Science Foundation's Spectrum Innovation Initiative center. The Center for Research Computing — established December 2005 (item 6), the computing center as institution, under Nabrzyski from 2009, at tier-two standing in its director's own taxonomy. All three are Notre Dame's, seated at Notre Dame, and printed here because the checklist requires the boundary carried, not because any part of them is Granger's.

This ground's own research institution is a creek. The contrast is the item's finding, and it is structural, not a failure of effort: research institutions seat where universities seat, and this CDP's university is across its line. Granger contributes the field site. It has done so since 1977.

Sources:

1. NDnano, "History" (nano.nd.edu) — established 1999, Iafrate founding director; Porod 2001; MIND selected March 2008. NDnano director announcement, January 16, 2018 — Seabaugh succeeding Porod; 70+ faculty, nine departments.
2. Notre Dame News, February 25, 2010 — the Wireless Institute launched, Laneman director, on the Green 1899 inheritance. ThinkND / Wireless Institute record — established January 2010; SpectrumX leadership.
3. Notre Dame News, December 19, 2005 — the CRC, as item 6.