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Research, Science and Technology
The boundary: Notre Dame's inventions, and Julius Nieuwland named once
1904–1932 · THE UNIVERSITY'S RECORD BELONGS TO THE TECHNOLOGY SECTION
The boundary stated: The University of Notre Dame stands on unincorporated ground at the city's edge — the Notre Dame section of this history carries its founding and course — and its inventive record, a century of laboratory…
Jerome Green's wireless — the message from the Basilica spire
1899
The experiment, as its own week recorded it: Jerome J. Green, head of the electrical department at Notre Dame, began experimenting with wireless telegraphy in his Science Hall laboratory in April 1899, weeks after Marconi's March…
Notre Dame's first computers — the UNIVAC and the Computing Center
1962 – 1975
The installation, photographed: The first computers in this record are the university's, and the university's archive holds the moment in photographs: a UNIVAC computer installation at Notre Dame, photographed about 1962 with the…
The Center for Research Computing — Notre Dame's computing institution
2005 – TODAY
Founded on the announcement of December 2005: The University of Notre Dame announced the creation of the Center for Research Computing on 18–19 December 2005, established, in the university's words, by the Office of Information…
The Wireless Institute, and SpectrumX — Green's line, institutionalized
2010 – TODAY
The institute: In January 2010 the University of Notre Dame's College of Engineering established the Wireless Institute, to build, in the university's announcement, "upon the rich tradition in wireless communications and networks…
NDnano and MIND — the nanoelectronics decade
1999 – TODAY
The centers: Notre Dame's Center for Nano Science and Technology — NDnano — was established in 1999. In March 2008 the university won the larger prize: the Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery, MIND, established that…
Germ-free life: Reyniers and the Lobund Laboratory, 1928
1928 — 1959
Animals raised without germs: The oldest continuous thread in this section begins in 1928, when James A. Reyniers inaugurated germfree animal research at the University of Notre Dame — the first published report of the work…
The Lobund-Wistar rat: a prostate-cancer model from the germfree colony
1970s — today
The rat that gets the disease men get: Lobund's second gift to medicine came out of the colony itself. Morris Pollard, who directed the laboratory after Reyniers and worked with its germfree animals for more than forty years, was…
The mosquito's genome: Collins, Besansky, and the Eck Institute
2002 — today
Reading the malaria mosquito: Notre Dame's infectious-disease line runs from the Vector Biology Laboratory of George B. Craig Jr.'s generation — more than four decades of work, in the university's summary — to the October of…
Rare and neglected diseases: the Boler-Parseghian Center, 2009
2009 — today
The diseases the market skips: In 2009 Notre Dame established its Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases — the illnesses, thousands of them, each too rare to draw commercial drug development — and brought Kasturi Haldar from…
Marvin Miller: siderophores, Trojan horses, and the tuberculosis program
1977 — today
Smuggling drugs through the iron door: The medicinal chemist of this record is Marvin J. Miller, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1977 and held the George and Winifred Clark chair from 1996. His laboratory's documented core…
The bacterial cell wall: Mobashery and the mechanics of resistance
2007 — today
The wall, drawn at last: Shahriar Mobashery's laboratory at Notre Dame took up the structure penicillin attacks. For half a century the bacterial cell wall's mesh — peptidoglycan — had resisted structural description, because…
The university pipeline: Gigot, McCloskey, Innovation Park, the IDEA Center
1998 — 2017 · THE MACHINERY, WITH ITS COUNTS
The second wave had a builder, and the builder was the university: Notre Dame's entrepreneurship machinery went up in dated steps, each documented by the university itself. The Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship was founded in…