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Four Notre Dame faculty members have received National Science Federation CAREER awards to support ambitious projects in ...

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Serendipitous meetings, scholarly collaborations, and an ethos of "encouraging junior faculty to think big" laid the ...

Dogs that easily learn the names of toys might also mentally sort them by function, a new example of complex cognitive activity in the canine brain.

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