Company Profile
University of Notre Dame du Lac
Company Overview
The University of Notre Dame (http://www.nd.edu), founded in 1842 by the Congregation of Holy Cross, is an independent, international Catholic university located adjacent to the city of South Bend, Indiana, and approximately 90 miles east of Chicago.
The University is organized into four undergraduate colleges – Arts and Letters, Science, Engineering, and the Mendoza College of Business – the School of Architecture, the Law School, the Graduate School, 10 major research institutes, more than 40 centers and special programs, and the University Library system.
The University of Notre Dame is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Company History
Notre Dame is rated among the nation’s top 25 institutions of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger’s, and Kaplan/Newsweek and others.
Notre Dame ranks in the top 10 on PayScale’s "College Salary Report," a list of salaries of graduates from hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide.
Notre Dame has been identified as one of the top 10 collegiate workplaces in the country in a survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the leading resource for higher education news and information.
Notre Dame is one of the few universities to regularly rank in the top 25 in the U.S. News & World Report survey of America's best colleges and the Learfield Sports' Directors' Cup standings of the best overall athletic programs.
In a Wall Street Journal survey of corporate recruiters, Notre Dame ranked 22nd nationally.
Hispanic Magazine ranks Notre Dame on its list of the top 25 colleges for Latinos.
The Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame ranks No. 1 nationally for its undergraduate program and 20th nationally for its MBA program by Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine in its surveys of top business programs.
Notre Dame Law School is rated 22nd by U.S. News & World Report.
Notre Dame is ranked 18th nationally among medium-sized schools for producing Peace Corps volunteers.
Notable Products / Brands
Fighting Irish
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
. In 1893, 10 years before the Wright brothers’ first flight, Notre Dame engineering professor Albert Zahm organized the first International Aeronautic Congress in Chicago. Based upon experiments on campus, he presented a paper that proposed the first modern method for launching airplanes and manually controlling them in flight by using rotating wing parts to balance the aircraft laterally and a double tail to control pitching and side-to-side movement.
. Jerome J. Green, a member of Notre Dame's engineering faculty 1895-1914, was a pioneer of wireless communication. Guided by the findings of Guglielmo Marconi, Green became the first American to transmit a wireless message—from Notre Dame to neighboring Saint Mary's College.
. Beginning in 1907, Notre Dame priest and professor Rev. Julius Nieuwland, C.S.C., conducted research that 25 years later led to the discovery of the formulae for synthetic rubber. Produced commercially by the DuPont Company under the brand name Neoprene, the highly elastic material is used for products ranging from water-faucet washers to gasoline-pump hoses to the adhesive strips on disposable diapers.
. In the 1930s, professors Edward A. Coomes and George B. Collins led a research team that was the first to use an electronstatic generator to accelerate electrons and the first to disintegrate the nucleus of an atom with electrons. They built a larger electronstatic generator with nearly double the voltage of the first that was used by the Manhattan Project during World War II to study the effects of radiation on matter.
. Germ-free technology developed by professors James Reyniers and Morris Pollard at Notre Dame's LOBUND Laboratory has played a significant role in bone-marrow treatment for leukemia and Hodgkins disease, the prevention of colon cancer, and the use of nutrition in preventing prostate cancer.
. Biologist George B. Craig Jr. was one of the world’s foremost experts on mosquitoes and their disease-carrying capabilities. For two decades he studied the genetics of Aedes aegypti, the Yellow Fever mosquito, using it to better understand disease transmission and to experiment with genetic control techniques. His later work included study of LaCrosse encephalitis in the Midwest and the Asian Tiger mosquito's migration from Southeast Asia to the United States.
. The U.S. Department of Energy-supported Radiation Laboratory on campus has given Notre Dame the largest concentration of radiation chemists in the world, with typically 30 different external institutions represented annually on its research staff. Notre Dame was the first American university to provide formal training in radiation chemistry and it continues to be the principal source of trained postgraduates in the field.
Benefits
For a full listing of benefits provided to employees of the University of Notre Dame, please visit http://hr.nd.edu/benefits.