Research Institutions: None Seated Here — the County's

Town finding · Boundary: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

Lead: No research institution is seated in the Town of New Carlisle or Olive Township. That is the finding, printed first and without softening: no university, no corporate research laboratory with a public research mission, and no independent institute has its seat on this ground. The proving grounds and the data-center campus are operating works, not research institutions, and are not re-badged as such.

The county's research institutions sit at Notre Dame, roughly fifteen miles east, and print at boundary size — each founded, dated, and in present state, one line apiece by design. Center for Research Computing (CRC), University of Notre Dame — established in 2005 by the university's Office of Information Technologies and Office of Research (one university profile dates the Center's founding to 2006; the establishment announcement is December 19, 2005, and both dates are printed here unmerged); still operating as the university's high-performance-computing and cyberinfrastructure center. Wireless Institute, University of Notre Dame — founded in 2010 within the College of Engineering, directed from its founding by J. Nicholas Laneman (reappointed January 16, 2026); still operating, working on 5G/6G, spectrum sharing, and satellite communications, and tracing its lineage to Jerome Green's 1899 wireless transmission from Notre Dame to Saint Mary's College. NDnano — Notre Dame Nanoscience and Technology — formally established in 1999 under Gerry Iafrate; still operating; its nanoelectronics course includes leading the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND) from 2008 under the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Nanoelectronics Research Initiative, with the Notre Dame Nanofabrication Facility in Stinson-Remick Hall from 2010. Each of these is Notre Dame's, on Notre Dame's campus, in a different municipality — named here so the town's own blank is measured against real neighbors, and not one of their results is credited to New Carlisle.

Sources:

1. University of Notre Dame, “Notre Dame Center for Research Computing Established,” Dec. 19, 2005, nd.edu; CRC profile (founding dated 2006 in the profile text) — conflict printed unmerged.
2. Notre Dame Wireless Institute, wireless.nd.edu — founded 2010; Laneman founder-director, reappointed Jan. 16, 2026; Jerome Green 1899 transmission lineage.
3. NDnano, “History,” nano.nd.edu — formally established 1999 under Gerry Iafrate; MIND center selected Mar. 2008; nanofabrication facility move to Stinson-Remick, Mar. 2010.