Category: Awards and Honors

Yichun Wang

Yichun Wang receives NSF CAREER award to engineer nanomaterials for drug delivery

Yichun Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, one of the highest honors awarded to young faculty. Wang’s research focuses on the development of nanotherapeutics through …

Matthew Rosenberger

Matthew Rosenberger receives NSF CAREER award to improve nanoscale imaging techniques

Matthew Rosenberger, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, one of the most prestigious honors awarded to early-career faculty.  Rosenberger’s research focuses on the …

Nitesh Chawla

Nitesh Chawla elected 2024 AAAI Fellow in recognition of outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) has elected Nitesh Chawla, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, as one of its 2024 fellows. Chawla, who directs Notre Dame’s Lucy Family Institute for Data and …

Cushing Hall of Engineering relief

Cheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Fall 2023)

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Fall 2023 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 …

Edward Maginn

Notre Dame’s Edward Maginn named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Edward Maginn, Keough-Hesburgh Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) — the highest professional distinction awarded solely …

Matthew Zahr

Matthew Zahr receives NSF CAREER award to improve simulation of shock-dominated turbulent flow

Matthew Zahr, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. The award recognizes early career excellence in STEM research and education. Zahr’s CAREER research project focuses on …

Notre Dame Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) team

Summer REU team, including six Notre Dame Engineering staff and faculty affiliates, recognized with Presidential Team Irish Award

The Notre Dame Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) team, which organizes immersive research programs each summer for more than 300 undergraduate students from around the world, received the Presidential Team Irish Award. Six of the 18 members of the team are affiliated with the …

Diogo Bolster

Diogo Bolster receives inaugural Polubarinova-Kochina Hydrologic Sciences Mid-Career Award from the American Geophysical Union

Diogo Bolster, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Hydrology at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) inaugural Polubarinova-Kochina Hydrologic Sciences Mid-Career Award. The award recognizes innovative interdisciplinary research, mentoring and …

Xiaobo Sharon Hu

Sharon Hu receives 2023 Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award

Xiaobo Sharon Hu, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the 2023 Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award from the Design Automation Conference (DAC). DAC is the largest industry event devoted to electronic computer-aided …

Paul Bohn

Paul Bohn honored as a fellow of the American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has selected Paul Bohn, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, as a fellow. Bohn, who directs Notre Dame’s Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, joins a cohort of 42 new fellows …