February 2006
Microlensing technique reveals small, rocky extrasolar planet
By: William G. Gilroy & Joshua Chamot
David Bennett, a University of Notre Dame astrophysicist, is a member of an international team of astronomers that has discovered a potentially rocky, icy body that may be the smallest and coolest extrasolar planet yet found. >
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New research paper suggests the possibility of magnetic logic
By: William G. Gilroy
A paper published by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers in the January 13 edition of the journal Science reveals the demonstration of logic in a magnetic system, thereby opening the door to all-magnetic information processing systems. >
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With Optimism, Less is More
By: Elizabeth Station
When it comes to forecasting future earnings, no one wants to rain on a company’s parade, but new research suggests that a little drizzle might dampen optimism in a healthy way. >
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Life and work of Cuban author topic of new book
By: Susan Guibert
“Everything in its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Piñera” is the title of a new book by Thomas F. Anderson, associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at the University of Notre Dame.>
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Financial Exchanges In Transition
By: Steve Friess
In the beginning, those with all the money created the New York Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange and others of its ilk, and they saw that it was good. Buyers and sellers crammed floors in the world’s great cities to find one another amid great theatrics and commotion, the value of corporations rising and falling in a corresponding manner. Not much changed for centuries, even as millions of new investors and thousands of new companies joined the fray. >
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Notre Dame biologists help Shedd Aquarium develop invasive species exhibit
By: William G. Gilroy
A new exhibit at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium that University of Notre Dame biologists helped develop brings Midwesterners face-to-face with some new - and unwelcome - neighbors: Asian carp, snakehead, gobies and other invasive species now residing in the Great Lakes. >
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More companies bail on pensions; employees left to fend for selves
By: Susan Guibert
IBM recently has joined the growing list of companies deserting traditional pension plans for new employees, turning instead to 401(k) plans – a move employers say will give them more stability and predictability in funding retirement accounts, but one that could have serious financial implications for employees, according to University of Notre Dame economist Teresa Ghilarducci, a national expert on private pensions. >
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