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Notre Dame to launch new Department of Bioengineering

The University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering is adding a new academic department in a field critical to the University’s strategic aspirations: bioengineering. Over the past two decades, the University’s doctoral and minor programs in bioengineering have seen tremendous demand. …

Diego Gomez-Zara

Air Force Young Investigator Award to study trust in AI agents that act on behalf of real people

It’s an axiom that today’s cybersecurity teams know all too well: People are more likely to trust communications that appear to come from people they already know. Yet more and more of those communications now pass through artificial intelligence (AI). Emails, documents, presentations, and …

Fighting online abuse using AI

With athletes noting increases in cyberstalking and harassment, Notre Dame is leveraging the power of AI to identify and stop abuse. Read the …

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Eilers Family Sports and Human Performance Institute marks first-of-its-kind Notre Dame partnership across athletics and academics

Pat and Jana Eilers of Winnetka, Illinois, have made an additional $25 million gift to the University of Notre Dame to create the new Eilers Family Sports and Human Performance Institute, increasing their total investment in this area to $50 million. A first-of-its-kind partnership between Notre …

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Melissa Berke receives 2026 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has named Melissa Berke, associate professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, as the recipient of the 2026 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize. Berke will …

Clive Neal

Clive R. Neal Awarded AGU’s 2026 Waldo E. Smith Award

Clive R. Neal, professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame, …

Ranjan Singh

Ranjan Singh named a Fellow of the American Physical Society

Ranjan Singh, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a Fellow of the …

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Notre Dame engineers address key hurdle for exhaled breath diagnostics

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a chronic condition that causes increasing difficulty in breathing as it …

Dafei Jin

Dafei Jin lands Moore Foundation award to build a new platform for quantum networking

Dafei Jin, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Science at the University …

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From ideas to impact: The Notre Dame Innovation Challenge takes shape

Since coming to Notre Dame, Patricia J. Culligan, the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering, has …