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NeuRRAM chip. Photo credit: David Baillot/University of California San Diego

Computing on the edge: computer engineers co-design new energy-efficient neuromorphic compute-in-memory chip

Computers constantly transfer information between processing and memory units, and this shuttling back and forth of data consumes a lot of energy. Siddharth Joshi, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and Ph.D. student Clemens Schafer, are …

Ph.D. student Jialing Xu with filter sample

Removing heavy metals from water with innovative 3D-printed filters

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 with a million other molecules, according to William …

Prof. Leo McWilliams

Leo McWilliams receives Notre Dame’s 2022 Niebuhr Award for Social Justice

Leo McWilliams, assistant dean for undergraduate programs in the College of Engineering, has received Notre Dame’s Reinhold Niebuhr Award, an honor given annually to a faculty member or administrator whose body of academic work and life promote and exemplify social justice. According to the …

Casey O’Brien receives NSF CAREER Award for chemical technology to reduce greenhouse gases

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. O’Brien’s CAREER research project focuses on …