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.…

Faculty from the University of Notre Dame’s Colleges of Engineering and Science have been awarded more than $1.3 million from the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in collaboration with research being conducted by Mississippi State...

Joan F. Brennecke, Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of the University of Notre Dame Energy Center, has been appointed editor of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data. The Journal of Chemical...

The University of Notre Dame's Stinson-Remick Hall has received LEED Gold Certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Stinson-Remick, which was dedicated on September 3rd, is a 160,000-square-foot College of Engineering facility that houses a nano technology research…

Joan Brennecke was presented the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award by U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. 

The University of Notre Dame Energy Center has been awarded a $2.8-million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) stimulus grant for a research project aimed at dramatically improving how the country uses and produces energy.

The solar panel array that sits on top of Notre Dame’s new Stinson-Remick Hall of Engineering was donated by General Electric. Rated at 50kW, it is expected to provide an estimated 55,000 kilowatt-hours of carbon-free electricity annually to the structure....

An interview with Dr. Prashant Kamat and his team of researchers aired on Thursday, July 29, at 5:30 p.m. on WNDU-TV. To view the video, visit: http://www.wndu.com/hometop/headlines/99574284.html.…

Joan F. Brennecke, Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, is the recipient of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant for research that could fundamentally change the way the country uses and produces...

Notre Dame Energy Center Established…