Brad Weldon, teaching professor and director of undergraduate studies for Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES), has been awarded a named professorship. He is now the Henry Massman Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering at Notre Dame. “Brad has been tremendous in …
The fast-growing and aggressive brain tumor known as glioblastoma has so far resisted all therapies, including immunotherapy, a treatment that harnesses the body’s immune system to destroy cancer cells. In a new study, researchers have demonstrated how a safe and widely prescribed blood …
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have devised a low-cost filter that can rapidly isolate and trap biomarkers for cancer with a 99% success rate. Their novel filter uses magnetic fields to capture lipoproteins, which are biomarkers for stroke …
An allergen-specific inhibitor devised by researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine has successfully prevented potentially life-threatening allergic responses to peanuts. The results of the new study were just published in Science Translational …
Yih-Fang Huang, professor of electrical engineering and senior associate dean for education and undergraduate programs, and Ahsan Kareem, the Robert M. Moran Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of …
Pinar Zorlutuna, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. She was named Notre Dame’s Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering, effective January 1, 2023. “Appointment to an endowed chair is one of the …
Wenhao Yu, a Ph.D. student in computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2023 Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellow. The fellowship provides significant financial and professional support for the year, including a 14-week paid summer internship at Bloomberg …
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is pleased to introduce Spyridon Mastorakis, who joins the faculty as assistant professor. “We are thrilled to welcome Professor Mastorakis to computer science and engineering at Notre Dame,” said Jane Cleland-Huang, Frank M. Freimann …
Zhichun Guo, a Ph.D. student in computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2023 Snap Research Fellow. The fellowship recognizes outstanding students carrying out highly impactful research in areas of interest to Snap Inc., including machine …
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is pleased to introduce Gabriel Burks, who joins the faculty as assistant professor. Burks is an expert in polymer physics, STEM education research and entrepreneurship at the intersection of agriculture and technology. His research …