Edison Lecture Series

Fall 2026

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September 17
Gold Mass and Lecture
Sister Damien Marie
Savino, FSE, Ph.D.

Melchor Visiting Professor of Engineering, University of Notre Dame and McGrath Institute for Church Life

Learning the Language of Creation in an AI Age

September 18
Edward M. DePaola

President and CEO of Severud Associates Consulting Engineers, PC

Engineers at Ground Zero: Documentary Screening and Q&A

Spring 2026

April 28
Kelsey Young

Artemis II Lunar Science Lead and Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead, NASA

“Artemis Lunar Science,” Kelsey Young, ND ’09 CEEES and Artemis Lunar Science Lead, to speak at Notre Dame

April 23
Jerome Lynch

Vinik Dean of Engineering and Fitzpatrick Family University Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Duke University

Elevating the Performance of the Built Environment through Cyber-Physical Systems

Mar 27
Bruce J. Tromberg

Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Accelerating Innovation and Technology Development through Engineering-Medicine Partnerships

Fall 2025

November 4
John A. Rogers

Director of the Querrey-Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University

Bioelectronics – Frontiers in the Integration of Technology with Biologyetian Lagoon

November 5
Gold Mass and Lecture
Karin Öberg, Ph.D.

Karin Öberg, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University

Cosmic Origins and Christian Creation

Fall 2024

September 27
Andrew J. Whittle

Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT

MoSE: The Audacious Project to Protect Venice from Flooding and Preserve the Venetian Lagoon

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September 26
Ahmad Abdelrazaq

Managing Director & Founding Partner, Rise Global

Paradigm Shift in Tall Building Typologies: Past, Present, & Future Technologies’ Impact on the New Generation of Tall Buildings Systems

Spring 2024

April 18
Raul Romero ’75, ’77

Executive Chairman for North America of Sacyr Group (retired)

Doubling the Capacity of the Panama Canal: How this colossal global engineering project was achieved—and how it is changing the world

April 8
Eclipse Watch Party

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse passed over North America, traveling from Mexico to Maine. Notre Dame was in the eclipse’s path and experienced 97 percent totality at 3:09 p.m. To celebrate the event, the College of Science hosted an Eclipse Watch Party. The College of Engineering/Edison Lecture Series was a donor of eclipse glasses for attendees.

Fall 2023

December 7
Dava Newman ’86

Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Infinite to Spaceship Earth

September 28
Marian Ackun-Farmmer, Ph.D.

Jewell lab, University of Maryland, College Park

Modulating Innate Signaling with Self-Assembled Systems to Promote Immune Tolerance in Autoimmunity

September 28
Jamie E. Padgett

Stanley C. Moore Professor and Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University

In Pursuit of Smart and Equitable Multi-Hazard Resilience Modeling for Structures and Systems

Spring 2023

April 13
Catalina Vajiac

Ph.D. student in Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Detection and Visualization of Human Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads

April 11
Grace O’Connell

Associate Professor and Co-directorBerkeley Biomechanics Laboratory,University of California, Berkeley

3D Modeling of the Intervertebral Disc: Direct Relationship between Tissue Composition and Model Parameters

March 31
Kai-Mei Fu

Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Point Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies

March 23
Dr. Adam Simpson

IDEAL Provostial Fellow for Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

What’s in Our Food?

Fall 2022

December 13
Carina Martinez

Postdoctoral researcher, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Dynamic Associations Facilitate Macromolecular Engineering of Formulations

November 10
Jeseth Delgado Vela

Howard University

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Biofilm

Spring 2022

May 5
Camilah Powell

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Active, Multi-Functional Environmental Nanotechnology for Remediation of Inorganic and Biological Pollutants

April 28
Gabriel Burks, Ph.D.

Army Research Office MURI Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hierarchical Control and Characterization of Synthetic and Biopolymer Materials

April 21
Asher Williams, Ph.D.

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

Engineering Microorganisms for the Efficient Biosynthesis of Carbohydrate-Based Drugs and Related Enzymes

March 24
Josef A. Nossek

Professor, Munich University of Technology

How to Achieve Energy Efficiency in Multi-Antenna Systems? A Physical Layer Perspective

February 1
Emma Chory, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

Phage and Robotics-Assisted Biomolecular Evolution

January 22
Fighting Irish Science Olympiad

Science Olympiad is a national organization that hosts academic competitions for students from K-12th grade. The event encourages the spread of STEM education and critical thinking to students all across the United States. The College of Engineering/Edison Lecture Series is a sponsor of this event at Notre Dame.