Khachatur Manukyan, Research Associate Professor in the Nuclear Science Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant from the Department of Defense. This grant aims to implement...

Paul Brenner, a ’98 graduate of Notre Dame, joined the Air Force ROTC program at the University while studying engineering as an undergraduate. Brenner has served on multiple deployments around the world, and from 2008 to 2009 he engineered and built...

Cooling accounts for about 15 percent of global energy consumption. Conventional clear windows allow the sun to heat up interior spaces, which energy-guzzling air-conditioners must then cool down. But what if a window could help cool the room, use no...

The University of Notre Dame’s iNDustry Labs is pleased to announce the expansion of its multidisciplinary team with the appointments of two associate faculty directors: Mike Chapple, academic director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics program and teaching professor of...

This summer, Jay A. LaVerne was selected as an inaugural member of the class of Fellows of the Radiation Research Society (RRS). LaVerne is concurrent research professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Physics and Astronomy…

Eight students were recognized for their research presentations during the poster session at the 7th annual Notre Dame-Purdue Soft Matter and Polymers Symposium. The event was held in Jordan Hall of Science on October 29. This collaborative event is held...

In September, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory announced it would lead a multi-institutional team to advance urban climate science with the establishment of an Urban Integrated Field Laboratory in Chicago. The DOE will fund the project with...

Hsing-Ta (Theta) Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, utilizes the intersection of chemistry, physics, and materials in his research. His lab develops theoretical tools and uses high performance computing facilities to study excited-state dynamics and light-matter interactions.

Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and collaborators Alexander Dowling and Tengfei Luo…

Patrick Fay, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. He was named Notre Dame’s Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology, effective September 1, 2022.

The ESTEEM Graduate Program has a new scholarship, thanks to financial support from the Jacobson Trust, a Florida-based organization that provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students across the U.S. The first recipient of this $10,000 scholarship is Lauren Walker...

Jian-xun Wang, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received the Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the Office of Naval Research for his project “Physics-Preserved Neural Differentiable Computing for Predictive Modeling of Rough-Wall Turbulence.” The award, one...

Harnessing the power of long wavelength light is key to the next generation of sensing and imaging devices for environmental monitoring, explosive detection, and biomedicine. Currently, however, the systems emitting such light are large and low-powered. In a new study...

David Burghoff, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2022 Moore Inventor Fellow. He is one of five fellows named this year by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The fellows program supports scientist-inventors who...

Khachatur Manukyan, research associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, was honored by the 2022 1st Source Bank Commercialization Award for his first U.S. patent, number 9,580,323. The patent, "Method of producing...

The Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy) at the University of Notre Dame was featured in the ThinkND Weekly Digest No. 156, highlighting energy-related programs in the area of Science and Technology for their more than 22,000 alumni and friends to explore...

Three graduate students at the University of Notre Dame have received fellowships from the university’s Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) doctoral program. Established in 2020, the MSE program has grown quickly. It now includes more than thirty students and has...

The University of Notre Dame’s Naughton Fellowship program has announced 33 faculty member and student awardees in its 2022-2023 cohort. Funded by a gift from the Naughton family in 2008, Naughton Fellowships foster leadership through international partnerships and stimulate collaborative...

The University of Notre Dame dedicated a new hydroelectric facility, ND Hydro, along the St. Joseph River during a ceremony Monday (Sept. 12) in downtown South Bend.

The Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy) at the University of Notre Dame has announced the 16th annual Notre Dame Energy Week Plus from September 11 through September 22, offering a broad range of events for the Notre Dame and surrounding communities to...

The Notre Dame Alumni Association announced its 2022 Domer Dozen cohort, honoring 12 graduates ages 32 and younger for excellence in their contributions in faith, service, learning or work — the core pillars of the association’s mission.

Chemical engineers at the University of Notre Dame have developed a highly effective filter for removing lead and other toxic heavy metals from water. The new filter is sensitive enough to identify and capture one metal ion, even when mixed...

Stefanos Polyzoides and Marianne Cusato are working with business and community leaders in South Bend and Kalamazoo, Michigan, to restore and revitalize neighborhoods.

Freimann Professor of Physics Ani Aprahamian has been chosen as an ambassador to STARMUS VI. STARMUS is a global art, music, and science festival taking place for the first time in Yerevan, Armenia on September 5-10, 2022.…

The 2022 Center for Civic Innovation Summer Internship Program includes several exciting and impactful projects, including Renewable Energy Comparisons in partnership with Bushelcraft Farm. A team of 3 interns worked on identifying and proposing renewable energy sources to power the...

The University of Notre Dame received an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Taking Action: COVID-19 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Challenge. The challenge was designed to encourage institutions of higher education to “think deeply about the long-term,...

Imagine a world where the power of chemistry is used in concert with machine learning to solve problems in healthcare, materials science, or energy research. Machine learning can accelerate the synthesis of molecules that hold the key to solving these...

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...