Research Centers
Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame
Conducts research and education programs in energy efficiency; safe nuclear waste storage; clean coal utilization; CO2 separation, storage, sequestration and use; solar and other renewable energy; and the social, political, and ethical aspects of energy policy and use.
Center for Environmental Science and Technology
A cooperative effort between Notre Dame’s Colleges of Science and Engineering, fostering interdisciplinary environmental research and education by providing cutting-edge analytical technologies needed to address complex environmental problems.
Environmental Research Center
Furthers research and education in environmental studies by focusing activities on high environmental quality locations that serve as “natural” laboratories for the study of environmental systems. These sites have experienced little or no degradation from humans and function as a baseline for comparison with human disturbed systems.
The Center for Building Communities
The Center for Building Communities aims to address problems such as the lack of affordable housing, suburban sprawl, and the looming energy and environmental crises by generating ideas and examples for the construction and real estate industries.
Center for Environmental Justice and Children’s Health
A multi-disciplinary group of Notre Dame faculty, students, and friends dedicated to addressing environmental injustice by performing risk assessments and environmental-impact analyses in poor, minority, or other vulnerable communities and helping to educate and empower potential victims of environmental injustice.
GLOBES
GLOBES brings together biologists, environmental and social scientists, public policy experts, lawyers, and religious and community leaders to seek innovative and interdisciplinary solutions to a wide range of interrelated problems in environmental and human health.
Center for Aquatic Conservation
From invasive species in the Great Lakes Region to waterborne diseases in tropical Africa, the mission of the Center for Aquatic Conservation is to promote the application of scientific knowledge to conserve earth’s freshwater resources.
Here is a comprehensive list of faculty involved in sustainability research on campus.
