Watch Video Imagine if the next coat of paint you put on the outside of your home generates electricity from light—electricity that can be used to power the appliances and equipment on the inside. A team of researchers at the...
The University of Notre Dame Haiti Program will spend less money to light and power its operations thanks to the addition of 16 solar panels, the work of a non-for-profit foundation led by two 1985 Notre Dame graduates. The Let’s...
A paper co-authored by William Phillip of the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical…
A 10kW flexible thin-film solar array and monitoring system was recently installed on the roof of the University of Notre Dame’s Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering. The light-weight flexible panels lie flat and are attached directly to the surface of the...
The University of Notre Dame’s Wireless Institute has announced the winners of its first Mobile Application Development Contest. Mobile solutions for challenges in energy, environment and sustainability was the theme of the contest, which was organized…
The newest addition to the Notre Dame campus skyline, demonstrating the University’s commitment to renewable…
A new Energy Studies Minor will be offered to all undergraduate majors at the University of Notre Dame beginning in Fall 2011. This minor will prepare students to become successful leaders from all disciplines who understand the complexity of the energy challenge.…
New Umbrella Organization to Consolidate Research, Initiatives With the announcement of the creation of the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (cSEND) earlier this month, the University will create an umbrella for its various sustainable energy projects, research…
The Notre Dame Energy Center (NDEC) and the Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI) have linked together to create a new University Research Center known as the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (cSEND). The new center will continue the mission...
In response to students' growing concern over environmental issues, the University announced the creation of two new minors, Energy Studies and Sustainability, each of which will be offered to all undergraduate students beginning in the fall of 2011. Read the...
The continuing nuclear energy crisis at Japan’s earthquake and tsunami damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site has once again raised questions in the United States about how to manage and safely store highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel. The questions have long...
View Video Despite more energy efficient appliances, energy consumption in the United States has increased 21-percent since 1978. …
Two University of Notre Dame researchers are included in a new ranking of the top chemists of the past decade. Joan F. Brennecke, Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of the Notre Dame Sustainable Energy Imitative, and...
The video is available at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/171.full Dr. Franklin Tao and his collaborator gave an invited video speech for Science Magazine along with their…
Ten University of Notre Dame faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in honor of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. AAAS, founded in...
Franklin (Feng) Tao accepted the invitation to serve on the advisory board of Catalysis Science and Technology, a new journal led by UK Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/CY/Staff.asp.…