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ND grad student fuses classical and quantum computing to improve skin disease diagnosis 

Early diagnosis of skin diseases greatly improves patient outcomes, but subtle symptoms often demand a dermatologist’s trained eye. While computers can assist by learning from high-quality medical images, the scarcity of such data remains a major barrier to fast, accurate …

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Monsoon mechanics: civil engineers look for answers in the Bay of Bengal

Off the southwestern coast of India, a pool of unusually warm water forms, reaching 100 feet below the surface. Soon after, the air above begins to churn, triggering the summer monsoon season with its life-giving yet sometimes catastrophic rains. To better understand the link between the …

Maria Holland

Maria Holland named standing member of NIH Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems Study Section 

Maria Holland, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to serve as a standing member of the Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems Study Section (MABS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific …

Andrew Bartolini and Joseph Lyon

Notre Dame First-Year Engineering Leaders Named to National Roles in ASEE Division

Andrew Bartolini and Joseph Lyon, leaders of the University of Notre Dame’s First-Year Engineering Program, have been selected for two officer roles of the First-Year Programs Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).  Bartolini, the director of the First-Year …

Yichun Wang

Yichun Wang named standing member of NIH Innovations in Nanosystems and Nanotechnology Study Section

Yichun Wang, Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to serve as a standing member of the Innovations in Nanosystems and Nanotechnology (INN) Study Section …

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Grace Pepperman ND ’25 likens civil engineers to Spider-Man in award-winning essay

What do civil engineers and Spider-Man have in common? “A lot,” maintains Grace Pepperman, a 2025 graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and second-place winner of the ASCE Daniel W. Mead Prize for her paper on …

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Seven engineering faculty named collegiate professors

Seven faculty members in the Notre Dame College of Engineering have been named collegiate professors—a prestigious title awarded by the university and college in recognition of excellence in research, teaching and service. The designation may be conferred on faculty at the assistant, associate …

Nosang Myung

Nosang Myung elected a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society

Nosang Vincent Myung, the Bernard Keating-Crawford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected a 2025 Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). He is one of only 12 scholars worldwide to receive this …

David Leighton

New book from ND chemical engineering professor offers engaging classroom demos

Understanding transport phenomena—how ions, molecules, and charges move through materials—is essential to many fields in engineering. Yet the concepts can be difficult to grasp. In “A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Demonstrations in Transport Phenomena,” David Leighton, professor of …

Sharon Hu

Sharon Hu receives IEEE 2024 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award 

Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the 2024 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award from IEEE’s Technical Community on Real-Time Systems …