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Study: When Corporate Insiders Sell Stock at a Loss, Watch Out
When considering whether to buy stock in a company, investors often look to the trading activity of the company’s top executives. If the CEO or CFO has recently made large...
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U.S. Poverty Numbers Continue to Decline, Researchers Find
A more accurate measure of the poverty rate, based on how much people consume, highlights the dramatic decline in poverty over the past four decades, a fact that is missed by the...
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Scientists Neutralize Reactive Nitrogen Molecules to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy — harnessing T-cells to attack cancer cells in the body — has given hope to patients who endure round after round of treatment, including chemotherapy, to little...
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Notre Dame Researchers to Study Cancer Immunotherapy and the Dengue Virus Vaccine
Two postdoctoral scholars from the University of Notre Dame have received Postdoctoral Training Awards in Translational Research from the Indiana Clinical and Translational...
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Committee Identifies Priorities for Nation’s Future Water Resource Challenges
Everything from aging water-related infrastructure and extreme weather to growing populations and climate change impacts the quantity and quality of water resources available...
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Researchers Provide Direct Experimental Evidence of Wigner Molecule Formation
In 1934, Eugene Wigner predicted that, in certain circumstances, a gas of electrons could take on a solid, crystalline phase and form a “lattice,” as long as the concentration...
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Avoiding Overconfidence Penalties and Planning Buildings
New research on confidence says nonverbal cues can help people avoid the social penalties of overconfidence. And, a collaboration between Notre Dame’s School of Architecture and...
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Notre Dame Releases Climate Vulnerability Assessment of More Than 270 US Cities
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have completed a two-year assessment of the current climate risks of more than 270 U.S. cities. The result is the Urban Adaptation...
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Fathers’ Postnatal Hormone Levels Predict Later Caregiving, Study Shows
Much has been written about what happens to mothers hormonally during pregnancy and after, but what about fathers? In a first-of-its-kind study, University of Notre Dame Assistant...
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Fighting the Spread of Misinformation
It was 2012. Tim Weninger was a Ph.D. student surfing Facebook and Reddit. As a computer scientist, his procrastination took a turn when he noticed some alarming trends on the...
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Psychologist Awarded $2.7 Million Grant to Evaluate Interventions to Improve Mental and Physical Health in Maltreated Children
Kristin Valentino is dedicated to understanding how adversity in early childhood — such as chronic poverty or maltreatment — can affect children’s mental and physical health...
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Researchers Study Presence of Fluorinated Chemicals in Firefighter Clothing
Scientists at the University of Notre Dame will begin an independent study of turnout gear worn by firefighters after initial samples tested positive for fluorine. Graham Peaslee,...
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