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Merlin Bruening wears a tab jacket and red tie

Merlin Bruening named 2025 Outstanding Teacher in Notre Dame College of Engineering

Merlin Bruening, the Donald and Susan Rice Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has won the 2025 Outstanding Teacher Award in the Notre Dame College of Engineering. The award honors an engineering faculty member — selected each year by …

Steve Koester

Steven Koester to lead Notre Dame’s Nanoscience and Technology (NDnano) Interdisciplinary Research Center

Steven Koester, recently appointed Frank M. Freimann Professor of Microelectronics and internationally recognized scholar and innovator in nanotechnology, has been named the director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NDnano). As director, he will lead a …

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Journey to a land of extremes: Civil engineering students explore Death Valley

Over spring break, 14 Notre Dame civil engineering students, one teaching assistant, and two professors traveled from snowy Northwest Indiana to the hot and arid Southwest to explore Death Valley’s stunning and complex geology. What follows is a student travelogue of their experiences. We …

Chia Chang

Hsueh-Chia Chang named Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Corporation Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, to its 2025 College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows …

Pi Squared app creators David Carr and Chris Fakhimi

A game, not a grind: Notre Dame students develop mobile app to make math fun

Students often say that math is their least favorite subject—too abstract, too much about memorizing rules and formulae, and, frankly, not much fun. That’s why two Notre Dame students have created an educational, gamified math app, Pi-Squared. Their mobile phone app, designed for students …

McKenna Englhardt and Kylee Kazenski in their leprechaun costumes

Engineers and Leprechauns: McKenna Englhardt and Kylee Kazenski

Leprechauns are small, bearded tricksters known for making shoes and mischief. Not anymore. Today’s Notre Dame leprechauns are more likely to be working with Navier-stokes equations and coding with C++ than cobbling shoes. Two women engineers portray the Notre Dame leprechaun this year: …

Jonathan Chisum

Antenna expert Jonathan Chisum named ONR Senior Research Fellow

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has selected Jonathan Chisum, associate professor of electrical engineering and affiliate of the Wireless Institute, to be a Summer Faculty Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Radar Division in Washington, D.C. During his 10-week fellowship, Chisum …

Meenal Datta, a woman with long black hair, wearing a blue blazer and patterned blouse, stands in a laboratory with scientific equipment and glassware in the background. She has a confident and professional expression.

Meenal Datta receives Air Force Young Investigator Program award to safeguard soldier immunity against unique stressors

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a Young Investigator Program (YIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). The AFOSR YIP is one of the nation’s most selective research early-career awards in science and …

A thin, stretchable bioelectronic device adhered to a wrist, featuring intricate black circuitry patterns on a transparent film.

Stretchable bioelectronics promise more accurate health monitoring devices

Vital sign monitors are essential both in clinical settings and, increasingly, at home. But even state-of-the-art monitors can produce inaccurate readings, mistaking irrelevant, motion-related signals for critical patient data. The underlying cause of these inaccuracies is often the significant …

Margaret Coad and Daniel-Montes Pinzon

Engineering professor and Ph.D. candidate receive 2025 inaugural mentorship awards

A faculty member and a Ph.D. candidate in Notre Dame’s College of Engineering have been honored with College of Engineering Outstanding Research Mentoring Awards for contributions to undergraduate education and research. The awards were based on nominations from undergraduate students who …