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Notre Dame IDEA Center launches 27 startups in first year of operation

The IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame surpassed its goal of creating 16 faculty and student startup companies in its first year by launching 27 companies between July 2017 and June 2018. Students from Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business are involved in 11 of the ventures.

Nick Swisher

Notre Dame Graduate Business Programs announces new director

Kelli Kilpatrick will become the senior director of Graduate Business Programs at Mendoza as of August 1, overseeing the College's residential graduate programs including the Notre Dame MBA, MSM, MSA and MSBA.

Carol Elliott

Mendoza finance prof wins research award for linking electricity usage with stock returns

Finance professor Zhi Da, co-author of “Industrial Electricity Usage and Stock Returns,” was honored in May with the 2017 William F. Sharpe Award from the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, one of the nation’s leading finance journals.

Carol Elliott

Friend or Foe? Notre Dame conference explores ethical considerations of AI

A fall 2018 conference at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business will explore the ethical issues arising from the use of AI in business and larger culture. “Artificial Intelligence and Business Ethics: Friends or Foes?” will take place Sept. 19-20 on the University campus.

Carol Elliott

Notre Dame president praises energy executives for meeting with pope

University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., on Monday (June 11) commended the world’s leading energy executives for joining Pope Francis over the weekend in a serious exploration of how to transition from fossil fuels while providing new sources of energy for the additional 2.4 billion people expected to inhabit the planet by mid-century.

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When local newspapers close, government runs unchecked, costs increase

New research from the University of Notre Dame shows the loss of city newspapers affects more than those nostalgic for print — it also leads to poorly run government and higher costs.

Shannon Roddel

Greater IT security does not equal fewer cyberattacks for hospitals, study shows

Lead author Corey Angst says new processes, including training, changes in mindsets and procedures, need to accompany any technology.

Shannon Roddel

Extreme price competition in pharmaceutical industry may put patients at serious health risk, study shows

New research from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana University and the University of Minnesota shows such competition-inducing regulations may encourage companies to relax quality standards during the manufacturing process, which may put more patients at serious health risk due to lower-quality products and more product recalls

Shannon Roddel

Business major receives Undergraduate Library Research Award

This annual award is earned by students who demonstrate exemplary research skills and utilize a breadth of library services, resources and expertise for their research or creative projects.

Jenna Mrozinske

4 Mendoza professors win undergraduate teaching awards

Twenty University faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and three have been honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.

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