2.重点研究领域
Researchers in all disciplines at Notre Dame are advancing human understanding by conducting groundbreaking research in the field, on the bench, or at the policy table.Below are some of theUniversity’s key areas of historic strength and growing areas of priority investment.
圣母大学所有学科的研究人员正在通过在实地，在台上或政策表上开展突破性的研究来提高人们的理解。以下是大学历史实力和增长优先投资领域的重点领域。
▲分析科学与工程
Notre Dame is building one of the fastest-growing analytical science and engineering programs in the country. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and related programs, such as Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics and Precision Medicine, are collaborating on innovative molecular research and the discovery and design of new technologies to combat disease, promote health, and safeguard the environment.
圣母院正在建设全国增长最快的分析科学和工程项目之一。化学与生物化学系，化学与生物分子工程系以及相关计划，如高级诊断与治疗与精密医学，正在合作开展创新的分子研究和发现和设计新技术以对抗疾病、促进健康和保护环境。
▲应用与计算数学与统计学
Within the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (ACMS), Notre Dame researchers are advancing solutions to critical problems in science and engineering, such as cancer progression, gene sequencing, environmental modeling, and big-data analysis in global health, through the development and novel application of mathematics, computation, and statistics. With state-of-the-art computational facilities and a plan for dynamic growth, ACMS at Notre Dame is accelerating both technological and mathematical and computational modeling advances for the good of the world.
在应用和计算数学与统计系(ACMS)中，圣母大学的研究人员正在推进解决科学与工程中的关键问题，如癌症进展，基因测序，环境建模和全球卫生大数据分析，通过数学，计算与统计学的发展与新颖应用。凭借先进的计算设施和动态增长计划，圣母大学的ACMS正在加速技术和数学和计算建模方面的进步，为世界的利益。
▲癌症
The Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) is how Notre Dame fights cancer. Researchers at the HCRI are dedicated to conducting innovative and integrative research that confronts the complex challenges of cancer. By forming interdisciplinary collaborations across Colleges and Schools, investigators are using their collective expertise to design new ways to attack cancer. From ovarian to pancreatic, breast to bone, the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine–South Bend are working together to discover novel therapeutics and diagnostics to fight the cancers that afflict millions of people each year.
哈珀癌症研究所(HCRI)是圣母大学如何打击癌症。HCRI的研究人员致力于进行创新和综合性研究，面临癌症复杂的挑战。通过跨学院和学校的跨学科合作，调查人员正在利用他们的集体专长来设计新的攻击癌症的方法。从卵巢到胰腺，乳房到骨骼，圣母大学和印第安纳大学医学院 - 南本德正在共同努力，发现新的治疗和诊断，以打击每年伤害数百万人的癌症。
▲化学与生物分子工程
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at Notre Dame has long had several strong areas of research, including catalysis, fluid mechanics, reaction engineering, computation, and thermodynamics. With a plan for significant growth in key areas and an ethos that reflects the University’s mission, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Notre Dame is poised to play a leading role in addressing some of the world’s grandest challenges in energy, the environment, human health, sustainability, and water.
圣母大学化学与生物分子工程系(CBE)长期以来已有数个强大的研究领域，包括催化，流体力学，反应工程，计算和热力学。随着重大领域的显着增长计划和反映大学使命的精神，圣母大学的化学和生物分子工程将有望在解决世界能源、环境、人类健康和可持续发展方面的一些最大挑战方面发挥主导作用。
▲电路
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are active in many areas of modern electronics research, including materials, devices, architectures, and systems. As the digital infrastructure evolves, with the emerging ubiquity of sensor networks, embedded intelligence, and the "Internet of Things," Notre Dame's Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering are working to expand and connect these areas of traditional research strength by developing new capabilities in advanced circuits research.
圣母大学的研究人员在现代电子研究的许多领域都很活跃，包括材料，设备，架构和系统。随着数字基础设施的不断发展，随着传感器网络，嵌入式智能和物联网的普及，电气工程与计算机科学与工程学院正在努力通过开发扩大和连接这些传统研究实力的领域先进电路研究的新能力。
▲计算数据科学与工程计算数据科学与工程
Within Notre Dame’s Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, researchers are focusing on developing tools that can advance deep understanding of research problems through high performance multi physics and multi scale predictive computations. By utilizing the University’s state-of-the-art facilities combined with multidisciplinary expertise, Notre Dame researchers are taking on the grand challenges that require massive amounts of data and computation in order to foster innovation and find solutions. Located within a Department with a long and impactful history, Notre Dame’s researchers are continuing this legacy through a commitment to growth and expansion in this dynamic area of research.
在圣母大学航空航天与机械工程系，研究人员正在研究开发可以通过高性能多物理和多尺度预测计算深入理解研究问题的工具。通过利用大学最先进的设施与多学科专业知识，圣母大学研究人员正在面临巨大的挑战，需要大量的数据和计算，以促进创新和寻找解决方案。圣母大学的研究人员在一个历史悠久而有影响力的部门内，通过对这一动态研究领域的发展和扩张的承诺，继续保持这一遗产。
▲经济学
The Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame is committed to conducting impactful research using the best available theoretical and empirical methods in the discipline, all while fostering the Catholic mission of the University. The Department has specialties in macroeconomics, applied micro economics, development economics, and game theory. Notre Dame Economics researchers are working to create real-world and policy-relevant solutions to help solve the economic, social, and political problems facing humanity.
圣母大学经济学系致力于利用该学科中最好的理论和经验方法进行有影响力的研究，同时培养大学的天主教使命。该部门具有宏观经济学，应用微观经济学，发展经济学和博弈论专业。圣母大学经济学研究人员正在努力创造现实世界和政策相关的解决方案，以帮助解决人类面临的经济，社会和政治问题。
▲能源
At ND Energy, the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame, researchers are building a better world by creating new technologies to provide readily available, inexpensive, and non-polluting energy to help solve the global energy crisis. By developing transformative technologies in the areas of sustainable bio/fossil fuels, sustainable and secure nuclear, transformative solar and wind, smart energy distribution and storage, and energy conversion and efficiency and combining these with effective education and outreach, the faculty and students of ND Energy are creating a more sustainable energy future for all.
研究人员在圣母大学可持续能源中心ND Energy研究人员创造了一个更好的世界，通过创造新技术，提供易于获得的，廉价的和无污染的能源来帮助解决全球能源危机。通过在可持续的生物/化石燃料，可持续和安全的核能，变革性太阳能和风能，智能能源分配和存储以及能源转换和效率等领域开发变革性技术，结合有效的教育和外联，ND和能源正在为所有人创造更可持续的能源未来
▲环境变化
At the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI), faculty and students are pursuing solutions to several key environmental challenges, including controlling and managing invasive species, preventing fertilizer runoff from agricultural fields, helping people and ecosystems adapt to climate change, and improving water quality and water quantity. With one-of-a-kind research facilities and leading-edge tools, Notre Dame’s environmental change researchers are focusing on globally significant research that can be translated into policy solutions to make the world a better place for humans and for the environment - truly Science Serving Society.
在圣母大学环境变化倡议(ND-ECI)，教师和学生正在寻求解决多项重大环境挑战的方法，包括控制和管理入侵物种，防止化肥农田流失，帮助人们和生态系统适应气候变化，改善水质和水量。圣母大学的环境变化研究人员拥有独一无二的研究设施和前沿工具，专注于全球重要的研究，可以转化为政策解决方案，使世界成为人类和环境的更美好的地方 - 真正科学服务社会。
▲全球发展
The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) combines the University’s world-class teaching and research faculty with a dedicated staff of experienced international development professionals, administrators, and researchers. Together NDIGD addresses the challenges of building just and equitable societies by leveraging Notre Dame’s signature strengths to promote development and human dignity worldwide.Drawing on experts across multiple disciplines, NDIGD conducts monitoring, evaluation, and training and assists in strategic planning for, and implementation of, innovative global development programs. NDIGD maximizes its impact through partnerships with government agencies, NGOs, humanitarian organizations, foundations, and private corporations in the United States and overseas.
圣母大学全球发展倡议(NDIGD)将大学世界一流的教学和研究教师与经验丰富的国际发展专业人员，管理人员和研究人员的专业人员相结合。NDIGD一起通过利用圣母大学的签名优势来促进全球发展和人的尊严，来解决构建公正和公平社会的挑战。利用多学科专家，NDIGD进行监测，评估和培训，并协助制定和实施创新性全球发展计划。NDIGD通过与美国和海外的政府机构，非政府组织，人道主义组织，基金会和私人公司的合作，最大限度地发挥其影响力。
▲全球健康
At Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health, researchers are building upon on the University’s historical strengths in infectious disease research, such as malaria, dengue fever, and tuberculosis. With its interdisciplinary team of faculty and students, the Eck Institute for Global Health is holistically addressing health disparities around the world, including recognizing health as a fundamental human right. Additionally, the Eck Institute for Global Health promotes research, training, and service to advance health standards for all people, especially those in developing countries who are disproportionately impacted by preventable diseases.
在圣母大学Eck全球卫生研究所，研究人员正在利用大学在传染病研究方面的历史优势，如疟疾，登革热和结核病。Eck全球卫生研究所凭借其跨学科的教师和学生团队，全面地处理世界各地的健康差距，包括将健康视为基本人权。此外，Eck全球卫生研究所还促进研究，培训和服务，以提高所有人的卫生标准，特别是那些受可预防疾病影响不大的发展中国家。
▲全球历史
Notre Dame’s Department of History is committed to a more globalized and transnational study of the past. Its faculty continue to focus on historic areas of strength in the Department, such as Latin American, medieval, and modern European history, but are also developing emerging areas of expertise, as well, including early American and Atlantic history. As the Department’s research continues to flourish through a commitment to growth and expanded scholarship, its faculty are pursuing studies that are not limited by national boundaries - disease, economics, migration, religious belief, and the environment.
圣母大学历史系致力于对全球化的跨国研究。其教职员工继续专注于拉丁美洲，中世纪和现代欧洲历史等历史领域的实力，同时也在发展新兴的专业领域，包括早期的美国和大西洋历史。由于该部门的研究工作继续蓬勃发展，致力于增长和扩大奖学金，其教职工正在进行不受国界限制的研究 - 疾病、经济、移民、宗教信仰和环境。
▲高等研究所
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) brings together leading thinkers from around the world to live and work in an intellectual community. These cross-disciplinary scholars, scientists, and artists pursue innovative and collaborative research projects, augmenting the life of the mind on campus. Building upon the Catholic intellectual tradition and inspired by the classical values of truth, goodness, and beauty, the NDIAS challenges its fellows to address fundamental and enduring questions about value, meaning, and purpose: what should we care about? And how should we choose to live?
圣母院高级研究所(NDIAS)汇集了来自世界各地的领先思想家，在知识界生活和工作。这些跨学科的学者，科学家和艺术家追求创新和协作的研究项目，增加了校园心灵的生活。基于天主教的知识传统，灵感来源于真理，善良和美丽的古典价值观，NDIAS挑战其研究员，以解决关于价值，意义和目的的基本和持久的问题：我们应该关心什么?我们该怎么选择住?
▲纳米技术
Researchers at Notre Dame’s Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) are collaborating across traditional scientific boundaries to develop more energy-efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly technologies to address global challenges. With expertise in a breadth of materials, processes, and characterization tools and techniques, NDnano researchers are leveraging the University’s world-class facilities in order to develop solutions that will help address the world’s problems, such as the need for clean water, climate change solutions, clean energy, and post-Silicon computer technology to stay apace of Big Data demands.
圣母大学纳米科技中心(ND nano)的研究人员正在跨越传统的科学界限进行合作，开发更节能，成本效益和环保的技术来应对全球挑战。ND 纳米研究人员在广泛的材料，工艺和表征工具和技术方面具有专业知识，正在利用大学的世界一流设施，开发解决方案，帮助解决世界各方面的问题如清洁水，气候变化解决方案，清洁能源和后硅计算机技术，以保持大数据需求。
▲核物理学
Notre Dame has a long legacy of excellence in nuclear physics research - there has been an accelerator on campus since the 1930s. Since then, Notre Dame has continued to invest in nuclear physics, building a preeminent nuclear astrophysics laboratory on campus, while also contributing to off-campus research projects and resources, such as the CASPAR project in South Dakota, FRIB at Michigan State University, and CARIBU at Argonne National Laboratory. With a distinctive history and continuing growth trajectory, Notre Dame’s nuclear physicists are working to discover the evolution of a star’s lifecycle – how do they live? How do they die? And how does this contribute to the evolution of our cosmos?
圣母大学在核物理研究方面拥有悠久的卓越遗产 - 自20世纪30年代以来，校园里有一个加速器。此后，圣母院继续投资核物理学，在校园内建立了杰出的核天体物理实验室，同时也为校园内研究项目和资源做出了贡献，如南达科他州的CASPAR项目，密歇根州立大学的FRIB项目，以及在阿贡国家实验室的CARIBU。圣母大学的核物理学家具有独特的历史和持续增长的轨迹，正在努力发现明星生命周期的演变 - 他们如何生活?他们怎么死?这对宇宙的演变有何贡献呢?
▲干细胞与再生医学干细胞与再生医学
The use of stem cells to repair and regenerate damaged human tissues and organs is one of the greatest medical research challenges of the coming decades. Notre Dame scientists and engineers from the Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine are collaborating to advance the research and application of adult stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells using a wide variety of organisms. Building on Notre Dame’s Catholic mission, faculty from Arts and Letters, Engineering, Law, and Science are also working to stimulate ethical and legal discussions associated with the use and application of stem cells.
使用干细胞修复和再生受损的人体组织和器官是未来几十年来最大的医学研究挑战之一。圣母大学的干细胞和再生医学中心的科学家和工程师正在合作，推动成体干细胞的研究和应用，并使用多种生物体诱导多能干细胞。在圣母大学的天主教使命下，艺术和信件，工程，法律和科学方面的教授也致力于促进与干细胞使用和应用相关的伦理和法律讨论。
▲拓扑和量子场理论拓扑和量子场理论
Within the Department of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame, researchers are exploring the intersection between math and physics, namely in the areas of topology and quantum field theory. With a historic legacy of research excellence in the field and a continued plan for growth, Notre Dame’s topologists are focusing on generating discoveries concerning the topological aspects of quantum field theories in order to fuel progress in topology and theoretical physics
在圣母大学数学系内，研究人员正在探索数学与物理学的交叉点，即拓扑学和量子场理论领域。圣母大学的拓扑学家凭借在该领域的卓越研究和持续增长计划的历史遗产，正在专注于产生关于量子领域理论拓扑方面的发现，以推动拓扑和理论物理学进展。
▲涡轮机和推进
The University of Notre Dame is at the forefront of research in the fields of turbomachinery and propulsion. From the Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory in Downtown South Bend, where researchers study and test components of gas turbine engines, to the Institute for Flow Physics and Control on campus, where faculty and students are exploring the potential for hypersonic aerodynamics, Notre Dame is building on its historic strengths in the areas of fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, and other areas of aerospace research, to create an expert corridor for aerospace engineering and research in South Bend.
圣母大学在涡轮机械和推进领域处于研究的前沿。从研究和测试燃气轮机发动机部件的南弯市的圣母大学涡轮机械实验室，到校园流动物理和控制研究所，教师和学生正在探索超音速空气动力学的潜力，圣母大学正在建设其在流体力学，空气动力学和其他航空航天研究领域的历史优势，在南本德创建了航空航天工程和研究专家走廊。
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