Notre Dame College of Science

The College of Science is a college within the University of Notre Dame. The Dean of the College of Science is Mary Galvin, Ph.D.[1]

College of Science
College of Science at the University of Notre Dame du Lac
TypeCollege
Established1865
Parent institution
University of Notre Dame
DeanMary Galvin
Academic staff
550
Undergraduates1,680
Postgraduates450
Location
Notre Dame, Indiana
,
Indiana
,
United States
Websitehttp://science.nd.edu/

History

The College of Science is established in 1865 by Rev. John Zahm, C.S.C., and in 1884 the first Science Hall is built (now LaFortune Student Center).

Rev. Julius Nieuwland, C.S.C., a Notre Dame chemist and botanist, establishes 1909 The American Midland Naturalist, a Midwestern plant life quarterly that today is an international journal of ecology, evolution, and the environment. His research leads to the development in 1930 at DuPont industries of Neoprene, the first synthetic rubber. Because of his contribution, in 1952 DuPont paid in part the construction of Nieuwland Science Hall, that to this day hosts research in physics and chemistry.

Jordan Hall, built in 2007, houses the administrative offices of the College of Science, including the Dean's Office.

The Laboratories of Bacteriology at the University of Notre Dame (LOBUND) is established in 1935 after the germ-free research of Prof. James Reyniers. The LOBUND attracts top scientists and became the world’s leader institution in germ-free research.

The first whole-ecosystem experiment is performed in 1951 on about 7,500 acres on the Wisconsin-Michigan border at the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (UNDERC), land owned by the University comprising several lakes and used for environmental research.

Prof. George B. Craig Jr. becomes the director of the Vector Biology Laboratory in 1957 and, for the next two decades, performs important research into the genetics of Aedes aegypti. The New York Times called Craig "one of the world's foremost experts on mosquitoes".[2] and the National Academies Press called him "an internationally recognized expert on the biology and control of mosquitoes" and that his "contributions made ... to medical entomology are almost incalculable".[3] The Jordan Hall of Science opens in 2006, after an investment of more than $70 million donated by Chicago business man Jay Jordan. The Hall includes a Digital Visualization Theater, 40 teaching labs, two lecture halls, an observatory, a greenhouse, and a space exhibiting the extensive plant collection of Rev. Nieuwland. In 2005 Notre Dame is part of a consortium that sponsored the Large Binocular Telescope. In 1989 Dr. Malcolm Fraser discovered and developed the PiggyBac transposon system.[4][5]

Departments, Majors, and Minors
  • Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
  • Department of Biological Sciences
  • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Physics
  • Collegiate Sequence

Facilities

The College of Science has facilities in Jordan Hall, Galvin Hall, Stepan Chemistry Hall, Nieuwland Hall, McCourtney, and other locations on campus. UNDERC is a center for environmental studies located on the Wisconsin-Michigan border.

  • Jordan Hall, home of the College of Science. It houses 40 laboratories, an observatory, two lecture halls, several classrooms, a small café, quiet study areas on each floor, and a greenhouse.
  • McCourtney Hall, which was built in 2016 and is a research center for Biochemistry and Bioengineering.
  • Nieuwland Hall, home to the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Nieuwland is also home to a brand new low-energy nuclear accelerator.
  • Hayes-Healy Hall, the home of the department of Mathematics and the O’Meara Mathematics Library.
  • Stepan Chemistry Hall, which houses chemistry faculty offices and laboratories.
  • The Jordan Hall Digital Visualization Theatre.
  • Galvin Hall, the home of the Biological Sciences department, classrooms, offices and research labs.
  • Hurley Hall, the former home of the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics.

List of deans
  • Rev. Julius Nieuwland (1921-1923)
  • Rev. Francis J. Wenninger (1923-1940)
  • Henry B. Froning (1940-1943)
  • Lawrence H. Baldinger (1943-1960)
  • Frederick D. Rossini (1960-1967)
  • Bernard Waldman (1967-1979)
  • Francis J. Castellino (1979-2002)
  • Joseph P. Marino (2002-2008)
  • Gregory Crawford (2008-2015)
  • Mary Galvin (2015-current)

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Departments, Colleges, and Schools // Academics // University of Notre Dame". Nd.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  2. Van, Lawrence (1995-12-23). "George Craig, 65, Entomologist Who Studied Mosquito Control". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  3. "Biographical Memoirs Home". Nap.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  4. Cary, L. C.; Goebel, M.; Corsaro, B. G.; Wang, H. G.; Rosen, E.; Fraser, M. J. (September 1989). "Transposon mutagenesis of baculoviruses: analysis of Trichoplusia ni transposon IFP2 insertions within the FP-locus of nuclear polyhedrosis viruses". Virology. 172 (1): 156–169. doi:10.1016/0042-6822(89)90117-7. ISSN 0042-6822. PMID 2549707.
  5. Chen, Qiujia; Luo, Wentian; Veach, Ruth Ann; Hickman, Alison B.; Wilson, Matthew H.; Dyda, Fred (2020-07-10). "Structural basis of seamless excision and specific targeting by piggyBac transposase". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 3446. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17128-1. ISSN 2041-1723.

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