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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Notre Dame to break ground Sept. 26 for Innovation Park

By: Ann Hastings and
Dennis Brown
Date: September 22, 2008

A groundbreaking ceremony for Innovation Park at Notre Dame will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday (Sept. 26) at the park’s future site near the corner of Twyckenham Drive and Edison Road in South Bend.

To be located on 12 acres of land adjacent to the south side of the University, Innovation Park will be home to a variety of start-up businesses, including expected commercial applications from the new Notre Dame-based Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND) and other University core research areas.

The park’s first building, to be completed by fall 2009, will be a three-story, 54,000-square-foot structure that will include collaborative areas, conference rooms, administrative offices, incubation facilities and lab space. Plans are being developed for future expansion.


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LaTeX and BibTeX

Greetings from the Engineering Library!

I invite you to contact me if you would be interested in giving a lecture on LaTeX and BibTeX to your fellow grad students in a library-sponsored informational session using Windows.

The library will be holding information sessions on RefWorks which manages references and creates bibliographies very soon and we want to have a session about LaTeX/BibTeX but do not have expertise in it.

I also have a few questions about your use of LaTeX. Which journals or publishers require you to submit articles for publication using LaTeX? Does the College of Engineering or your department require you to use LaTeX for your thesis?

Thanks very much and hope to hear from you!

Carol A. Brach
Engineering Librarian
University of Notre Dame
(574)631-5070

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Dunn named managing director of nanotechnology centers

By: William G. Gilroy and Nina Welding
Date: August 29, 2008

Robert M. Dunn, most recently the director of the Integrated Engineering and Business Practices Program in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering, has been named the managing director of the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) and the recently established Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND).

In this new role, Dunn will serve as both an advocate of the organizations and a facilitator for them, working closely with faculty, staff and industry and government partners as the research activities in these centers continue to grow. He also will coordinate outreach and commercialization efforts, including the development of an industrial affiliate’s network, and assist the transition from his previous position by helping to identify and train a new director of the college’s business practices program.

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Monday, August 11, 2008

Exploring the life-saving aspects of engineering

By: Gail Hinchion Mancini



Date: August 11, 2008

Some academic experiences are built from moments and memories.

Tracy Kijewski-Correa remembers being at her home in downtown South Bend on Dec. 26, 2004, when the television began broadcasting news of a tsunami that hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, killing more than 225,000.

“I just felt sick to my stomach,” says Kijewski-Correa, Rooney Family Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. “We’ve all seen the damage Katrina caused, and how long rebuilding is taking. Imagine, then, the effects of a tsunami on a village where the homes are simple shacks and family members are having breakfast when a tsunami strikes with no warning.”

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Seed fund projects focus on clean energy

By: William G. Gilroy and
Nina Welding
Date: July 30, 2008

In support of its mission to pursue the development of abundant and inexpensive energy sources that do not harm the environment, the University of Notre Dame’s Energy Center has announced that three projects pursuing novel concepts in clean energy will be supported through the center’s new Seed Fund program.

According to Joan F. Brennecke, center director and Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the Seed Fund program sponsors early-stage research related to energy production, delivery and use.

“The challenge for us all is to find solutions to energy that are clean, economically feasible and renewable for the long term,” Brennecke said. “The Energy Center, and these seed fund projects, actively address that challenge.”

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Copyright

Do you have questions about copyright and what is, or isn't, in the public domain?

Check out this online tool created by the American Library Association as a starting point for your questions.

http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

University Libraries renamed in Father Hesburgh’s honor

By: Julie Hail Flory and
William G. Schmitt
Date: April 29, 2008

The University Libraries of Notre Dame have been renamed the Hesburgh Libraries, in honor of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University.

“Renaming the entire University Libraries system after Father Ted is an appropriate way to honor the depth and breadth of his vision for interdisciplinary excellence at Notre Dame,” said Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the University’s president. “Now, the ‘Hesburgh Libraries’ include not only the monument to learning called the Hesburgh Library, but also the various subject-specific libraries that bring world-class resources and expertise to faculty and students all around campus.”

The University’s principal, 14-story library was designed and constructed under Father Hesburgh’s leadership in the 1960s and has borne his name since his retirement in 1987. His name now also will apply to the other 10 libraries within the campus system, which, along with the main facility, contain a total of nearly 3 million volumes, more than 5,850 electronic titles, more than 3 million microform units and 25,200 audio-visual items. The libraries subscribe to approximately 12,100 serials and are managed by a faculty of 50 and a staff of 145.

Of the new Hesburgh Libraries, Father Jenkins also said: “They, like Hesburgh the priest, will help us to educate minds and hearts with a great sense of community that bridges past, present and future.”

Considered one of the most influential figures in higher education in the 20th century, Father Hesburgh, now 90 years old, led the University from 1952 to 1987. Among his many honors, his public service career was recognized in 2000 when he became the first person from higher education to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. He also received the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.


Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Greenhouses and “green” computing

By: William Gilroy
Date: April 22, 2008

On the surface, high performance computing and greenhouses appear to have little in common. But the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research Computing and the City of South Bend have wedded them in a marriage that is environmentally friendly, economically beneficial and worthy of celebration on Earth Day.

The center, established in 2005, supports the research agenda of the University by making available managed computing assets and staff with expertise in the application of these resources to multidisciplinary research interests.

South Bend’s Potowatomi Greenhouses have provided area residents with year-round access to flowers and plants since the 1920s. In 1973, the Arizona Desert Dome was built at the greenhouses to serve as the home of a botanical collection donated by Rev. Joseph Sarto McGrath, C.S.C. The late Father McGrath was a Notre Dame chemist, summer school dean and rector at Fisher Hall, whose hobby was visiting Arizona to obtain many different types of cacti.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

ND professor answers nanotechnology questions


South Bend Tribune April 14, 2008
Staff writer Margaret Fosmoe

University lead partner in new Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures.

Business, government and educational leaders in late March announced big news: establishment of the Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures (MANA).

It's a new research consortium and the University of Notre Dame, which is already involved in extensive nanotechnology research, is the lead partner. The group's mission is to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device, the basic building block of smaller, faster computers of the future.

The partnership is expected to bring more federal money to Midwestern universities and potentially bring well-paying, high-technology jobs to South Bend and the region.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Notre Dame lands new nanotechnology research center

By: William G. Gilroy
Date: March 25, 2008

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced today (March 25) the establishment of the Midwest Academy for Nanoelectronics and Architectures (MANA), a new research consortium led by the University of Notre Dame and designed to discover and develop the next nanoscale logic device, which will be the basic building block of future computers.

The consortium also includes Purdue University, the University of Illinois, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Michigan, Argonne National Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

Also participating in the joint announcement were representatives of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) of the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., Indiana Speaker of the House B. Patrick Bauer, South Bend Mayor Steve Luecke, Purdue Interim Provost Vic Lechtenberg, Notre Dame vice president for research Robert Bernhard, and Notre Dame’s president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.

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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Notre Dame’s Paul Bohn helps define water purification research agenda


By: William G. Gilroy
Date: March 20, 2008

Paul W. Bohn, Presidential Faculty Fellow and the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is one of the co-authors of a paper establishing an aggressive research agenda to address problems central to providing clean water in adequate quantities across the world’s diverse populations.

In the paper, which appears in today’s edition of Nature, Bohn and colleagues from the University of Illinois, MIT and Yale examine the problems inherent in current water purification strategies and identify the key scientific and engineering hurdles to purifying water while minimizing adverse environmental impacts.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

Based in Washington, D.C., The Chronicle has more than 70 full-time writers and editors, as well as 17 foreign correspondents positioned around the world.

Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

The Chronicle's audited Web-site traffic is routinely more than 12 million pages a month, seen by more than one million unique visitors.

The Chronicle is a nine-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, and one of its columnists was a finalist for a 2005 Pulitzer Prize. The Chronicle has also received honors from the Education Writers Association, the Society of News Design, the EPpy Awards, and the Webby Awards, among others. (See http://chronicle.com.lib-proxy.nd.edu/awards for a complete listing.) In 2007 The Chronicle was ranked in the top 10 of most credible news sources by Erdos & Morgan, a widely used survey of thought leaders in the United States. The Utne Reader that year named The Chronicle for "best political coverage" among independent newspapers.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Engineering Library Open House

Help us to celebrate!

"Engineers Make a World of Difference"
at the Engineering Library Open House!

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2 - 4 pm
Location: 149 Fitzpatrick Hall

Join us for food, punch, and lots of free stuff!
Enter our 2nd Annual Trivia Contest for chances to win valuable prizes.

Hope to see you there!

Carol Brach for the Engineering Library Staff

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Safari Books Online

We are pleased to announce that the library has a trial available for
Safari Books Online, until January 31. Safari includes a technology
books from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Sams, Prentice Hall, Que, Cisco
Press, Microsoft Press, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, New Riders
Publishing, Course Technology, IBM Press, Macromedia and Adobe Press.

Please note that if we do subscribe to Safari, the subscription would be
for selected titles, not the entire service.

Try it out, and let us know what you think!

http://engineering.library.nd.edu/protected/Safari.shtml

Thank you,

Aaron Bales
Assistant Engineering Librarian