The potential of additive manufacturing — 3D printing — to help build a better world is expanding all the time, from customized surgical implants to parts for commercial jet engines. Additive manufacturing technologies, specifically additive construction, is poised to impact...

Each fellow will receive a stipend for one year to support their research and dissertation as part of the new doctoral program that launched in 2020.

According to research published in The Lancet Planetary Health, scientists at Notre Dame found that particulate matter concentrations in China dropped by an unprecedented 29.7 percent, and by 17.1 percent in parts of Europe, during lockdowns that took place between Feb....

David B. Go, the Rooney Family Collegiate Professor, has been selected to chair the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering beginning Nov. 1.

The 2020 Notre Dame Sustainability Expo, now in its sixth year, will be held virtually over two evenings on October 6 and 7 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. (EDT) with live panel discussions and Q&A sessions for undergraduate and graduate...

    The Notre Dame-led team seeks to tighten the materials development timeline in manufacturing using transfer learning. Long-term solutions for energy use don’t happen overnight. They are most often found through a lengthy process of trial and error. A...

Notre Dame researchers will use data from the new high-speed light detectors to determine the temperature of the sun’s lower atmosphere, measure the spectrum of solar flares and gain a better understanding of the role magnetic fields play in solar flare...

When Yamil Colón arrived at the University of Notre Dame from Puerto Rico, he had yet to spend much time outside of the island. A chemical and biomolecular engineering major, Colón grew up in Bayamón, a city of about 200,000 in the northern...

Mary Galvin, the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, will step down from the position effective Dec. 31.

Patricia “Trish” Culligan remembers hearing a regular refrain at the dinner table. “Nobody can ever take your education away from you,” her parents would often remind her and her four siblings. “My parents were very invested in our education. And I...

A team of engineers, including two AME undergraduates and a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering, have published research that explores making plasma devices that can be operated without electrical power — they need only human or mechanical energy.

On Tuesday, September 15, 2020, Notre Dame Research will host a virtual Core Facility Fair from 9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST. The event is open to students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff.

As a partner in the project, Notre Dame has committed to purchase 40 percent of total output from the facility in the form of clean energy credits over 30 years, equal to about 10 percent of the University’s overall electrical...

In 2019 ND Energy introduced a new course, Puerto Rico: Road Map to a Renewable Future, which allowed students to travel to Puerto Rico and experience what it's like to navigate the political, cultural, and technological challenges of implementing renewable energy. 

The Center for Sustainable Energy at the University of Notre Dame (ND Energy) will host its 14th annual Notre Dame Energy Week from August 23 to 28, 2020. Sponsored by ND Energy and its Student Energy Board…

Winners have until 2021 or later to use the award because of cancellations and restrictions related to the pandemic.

Nine University of Notre Dame faculty members received prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards in 2020.

The Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering continues to grow and thrive, promoting accomplished faculty and adding new faculty to meet the needs of students and research. Tengfei Luo…

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is pleased to announce faculty promotions and new hires for the 2020 academic year. Ruilan Guo has been promoted to Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Associate Professor. Guo joined the faculty in 2012. Her research...

Jennifer L. Schaefer and Matthew J. Webber have been named 2020 Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Young Investigators by the PSME Division of the American Chemical Society.