As part of our strategic planning initiatives for the next three to five years, the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society (the Institute) solicited proposals from the Institute’s affiliates and fellows to help discover and define thematic goals of...

During fiscal year 2022, researchers at the University of Notre Dame received $244 million in research award funding, surpassing the previous record of $222.7 million set in fiscal year 2021.

This year, six researchers at the University of Notre Dame have received the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) most prestigious award for early career researchers. Since 2014, Notre Dame faculty have earned 61 of these nationally competitive awards. The Early Career...

As the United States seeks to strengthen its hypersonics capabilities, government officials recently joined engineers and experts at the University of Notre Dame to discuss how the nation can broaden its efforts to lead the field in both technology and...

The grant was awarded to Notre Dame Upward Bound, one of the University’s two TRIO programs that help low-income local high school students in their preparation for college.

During the 2022 annual meeting of a stormwater collective known as the Indiana MS4 Partnership, the University of Notre Dame received the New Municipal Best Management Practice Award for the Joyce Center green roof project…

Casey O’Brien, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. CAREER awards are among the highest honors awarded to young faculty.…

Starting with a fresh idea and limited time, musical instrument giant ConnSelmer (Elkhart, Indiana) began its journey to create one of the most well-known, innovative and forward-thinking sound manufacturers in the country. Recounting its roots from the 1870s to its...

Prashant Kamat, Rev. John A. Zahm Professor of Science at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to receive two prestigious research awards - the Nanocarbons Division Richard E. Smalley Research Award, given by The Electrochemical Society, and the...

The University of Notre Dame will expand its interdisciplinary science and engineering research complex on the east side of campus with the addition of a second building underwritten by a lead gift from alumnus and Emeritus Trustee Ted H. McCourtney...

Robert J. Bernhard, vice president for research and professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the commencement address during the Graduate School’s Class of 2020 Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday (May 28)...

Twenty University of Notre Dame faculty members have received Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and three have been honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.

Twenty-three new internal grants awards were announced today by Notre Dame Research. The grants were awarded to faculty from three Colleges and Schools in two categories: Equipment Restoration and Renewal and Library Acquisition. “Continuing to invest in the resources that...

Ernest J. Moniz, U.S. secretary of energy from 2013 to 2017, will deliver the keynote address during the Graduate School’s annual Commencement Ceremony on Saturday (May 14) at the University of Notre Dame. 

Funded through an NSF Germination grant , PI Alexander Dowling is partnering with the Center for Civic Innovation and with INVATI, a local startup incubator, to lead an effort with faculty in the CoE and CoS to build a new learning framework, named the Immersive Training Studio for the Technology-Water-Energy-Environment-Society (TWEES) Grand Challenges, for early doctoral students. …...

The Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame (ND Energy) has announced the recipients of the 2022 Vincent P. Slatt Fellowship for Undergraduate Research in Energy Systems and Processes. Slatt fellowships support undergraduate students interested in pursuing energy-related research and...

Edward Maginn, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed associate vice president for research, effective July 1, 2022. In this role, Maginn will be responsible for...

Jennifer Schaefer, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is a recipient of the James A. Burns, C.S.C., Graduate School Award — an award given to Notre Dame faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding mentorship of doctoral students.

The EPA established the Green Power Partnership program in 2001 as a way to encourage organizations to use green energy, including wind, solar, hydro and geothermal, and to protect human health and the environment.

The University of Notre Dame will present honorary degrees at its 177th University Commencement Ceremony on May 15 to two distinguished leaders, Ernest J. Moniz and Kathleen McChesney, who were originally to be recognized at the 2020 ceremony that was...

Global warming, climate change, just transition and sustainability are hardly new topics on campus. For years, various groups of academics, administrators, students and staff at the University of Notre Dame have faithfully tackled questions related to these subject matters through...

John T. McGreevy, a distinguished historian and former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost of the University by its Board of Trustees, acting...

The Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy) at the University of Notre Dame has completed its annual review of major initiatives and outcomes in energy-related research, education and outreach. The 2021 annual report summarizes the details of these activities and...

    ND Energy announces its fifth annual research symposium focused on research and scholarship in support of the 2021-22 Notre Dame Forum on Care for our Common Home: Just Transition to a Sustainable Future. The symposium will be held Thursday,...

New research shows large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) in Ethiopia's Omo River region could threaten water resources downstream to the local farmers and Indigenous populations living along the Omo — just one example of how a decades-long “global land rush” could intensify...

The 2022 gold rating places Notre Dame, which had earned a silver rating with the previous report in 2017, among the top 23 percent of more than 680 reporting institutions across the world.

Santiago Schnell, the William K. Warren Dean of the College of Science, has appointed three new department chairs, effective July 1, 2022: David Galvin will become chair of the Department of Mathematics; Morten Eskildsen will become chair of the Department...

Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), will give a public lecture, “A Climate for All of Us," on Saturday, March 5 at 2:30 p.m. in the McKenna Hall Auditorium at the University of Notre Dame. 

The collaboration provides research and development support for Carrier by the NDTL and an opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience with Carrier’s HVAC compressor development.

The Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy) at the University of Notre Dame announces the 2022 recipients of The Patrick and Jana Eilers Graduate Student Fellowship for Energy Related Research…