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Professor emerita wins prestigious lifelong achievement award for her work assessing environmental injustice

Published: July 21, 2023

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O’Neill Family Professor Emerita in the University of Notre Dame Department of Philosophy, who had a concurrent appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences, has won the 2023 Cosmos International Prize…

New pathway for DNA transfer discovered in tumor microenvironment

Published: March 30, 2022

Deanna Csomo Ferrell

University of Notre Dame researchers have discovered another way tumor cells transfer genetic material to other cells in their microenvironment, causing cancer to spread.

Physicist Xiaolong Liu receives Powe Junior Faculty Award

Published: June 21, 2023

Deanna Csomo Ferrell

The competitive research award provides seed money for Liu's work in condensed matter and quantum physics.

Biology graduate student and postdoc earn prestigious fellowships to study glial cells

Published: May 10, 2023

Deanna Csomo Ferrell

A graduate student and a postdoctoral researcher each received prestigious fellowships from the National Institutes of Health for work they are doing to investigate the roles of glial cells during the development of the nervous system.