Category: Awards and Honors

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Cheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Fall 2025)

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Fall 2025 recipients of the Staff Excellence Awards, which recognize staff members’ exemplary contributions above and beyond the scope of their standard job responsibilities. Award recipients are honored for having a substantial …

Kyle Bibby and Jason Rohr

Two Notre Dame faculty named to 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers List

Kyle Bibby, professor and associate chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and Jason Rohr, Ludmilla F., Stephen J., and Robert T. Galla College Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, were named 2025 Highly Cited …

Four smiling Postdoc Spotlight finalists stand in a Notre Dame lecture hall. Screens behind them display "Notre Dame Postdoc Spotlight Finals" and university logos. A man in a blue vest, a woman in a white turtleneck, a woman in a black blazer, and a man in a dark suit are pictured.

Breakthrough Research. Talented Scholars. Inaugural Notre Dame’s Postdoc Spotlight Delivers.

The concept wasn’t new—the competition challenged scholars to present their complex research in just three minutes, equipped with a single slide, in a way that anyone could understand. While the Graduate School has hosted the Shaheen Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for graduate students …

Thomas Corke, a man with a mustache wearing a suit, stands in front of a wind turbine.

Thomas Corke awarded the Dryden Lectureship in Research by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Thomas Corke, the Clark Equipment Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for its distinguished Dryden Lectureship in Research.  Corke will deliver his lecture, …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta named the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the inaugural Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. “Professor Datta’s pioneering work brings to bear mechanical …

ND electrical engineer Ranjan Singh named founding editor-in-chief of APL Engineering Physics

Ranjan Singh, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame and pioneer in terahertz photonics, spintronics and metamaterials, has been named founding editor-in-chief of Applied Physics Letters (APL) Engineering Physics. According to Singh, the journal aims to encourage …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta receives the 2025 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) to receive its 2025 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award. This single-recipient award is BMES’s most prestigious honor for …

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The University Academic Advising Initiative Team wins Presidential Team Irish Award

From left to right, front row: Charlie Castline, Kate Broadbent, Miranda VanNevel, Jennifer Robichaud, Jen Kau Hake, Kelly Harrington, Anita Stratton; row two: Karmen Duke, Gabriela Ochoa Brenneman, Deacon Mel Tardy, Carol Kraus, Dawn Templeton, Mark Kettler; row three: Kate Mahon, Julia Qian, …

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Pinar Zorlutuna elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society’s 2025 Class of Fellows

Pinar Zorlutuna, Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering and director of the Bioengineering Program at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) 2025 Class of Fellows. Fellows are selected on the basis of their “exceptional achievements …

Troy Vogel

Troy Vogel wins the 2025 AIChE’s Service to Chemical Engineering Education Award

Troy Vogel, teaching professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of undergraduate studies, has won the 2025 Service to Chemical Engineering Education Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). AIChE is a …