Category: Awards and Honors

Tom O'Sullivan

Thomas O’Sullivan named SPIE Fellow

Thomas O’Sullivan, Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Professor of Biomedical Electronics in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. He is among 59 researchers from around the world …

Joseph Lyon and Andrew Bartolini

Joseph Lyon elected to national role in ASEE Division; Andrew Bartolini named First-Year Programs chair

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

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Hsueh-Chia Chang receives national and local honors

Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Corporation Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received two significant honors this summer—one national and one local. Nationally, in recognition of sustained excellence in the field …

Nishanth Gadiyar

Nishanth Gadiyar receives 2026 IEEE IAS Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award

Nishanth Gadiyar, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the 2026 Andrew W. Smith Outstanding Young Member Achievement Award by the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS). The award recognizes Gadiyar for his “contributions to …

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Seven engineering faculty named Collegiate Professors

Seven University of Notre Dame College of Engineering faculty members have been named Collegiate Professors in recognition of their exceptional contributions to research, teaching and service. Awarded across all professor ranks, this prestigious title honors faculty who have demonstrated sustained …

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2026 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellows in Engineering

This fall, the College of Engineering welcomes six new postdoctoral fellows through the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a university-wide initiative. Now in its second year, the program supports talented, highly motivated scholars committed to Notre Dame’s mission—to be a powerful …

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Alexander Dowling, Emily Grubert selected for the National Academy of Engineering’s Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Program

Two faculty members from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering are among the 74 early-career researchers selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering program. Alexander Dowling, Tony and Sarah Earley Collegiate …

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NSF Cyber SMART Center announces inaugural recipients of its Distinguished Dissertation Award, recognizing complex, multidisciplinary research across computer and information science

This summer, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Cyber SMART Center announced its inaugural Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients. The center’s focus is advancing holistic, multidisciplinary research across the full spectrum of cyber and compute fields, including its …

Clive Neal

Clive Neal Awarded NASA’s 2026 Shoemaker Distinguished Scientist Medal

Clive Neal, professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the 2026 Eugene Shoemaker Distinguished Scientist Medal by NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).  Named after American …

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Meenal Datta receives NSF CAREER award to advance her research on how mechanical forces can disrupt the immune system

Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to advance her research on uncovering how mechanical forces disrupt the immune …