Category: Awards and Honors

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Fourteen current or former Notre Dame students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Fourteen current or former University of Notre Dame students have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, with an additional 12 selected as alternates for the award. Established in 1952, the Graduate Research Fellowship Program provides financial and other …

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Four Notre Dame Engineers among 2026 Graduate School award recipients

The Graduate School is pleased to announce its annual award winners for the 2025–2026 academic year. These awards include: the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award; the Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., Awards; the Dick and Peggy Notebaert Award; the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Awards; …

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Kaitlyn Stankiewicz to receive 2026 Catherine F. Pieronek Women in Engineering Impact Award

Kaitlyn Stankiewicz, undergraduate program coordinator for the College of Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Catherine F. Pieronek Women in Engineering Impact Award. This year’s award carries special significance, marking the 10th anniversary of the honor and a decade of …

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Brian Blagg Receives Top Honor; Engineering’s Moon and Pratt Earn Second and Third as Notre Dame and 1st Source Honor Faculty Innovation at Commercialization Awards Dinner

On Tuesday, March 24, University leaders, faculty members, and community partners gathered in downtown South Bend to celebrate research and innovation at the 1st Source Faculty Commercialization Award dinner. This event honors faculty researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana …

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Notre Dame to confer 7 honorary degrees at 2026 Commencement

The University of Notre Dame will confer honorary degrees on six distinguished leaders at its 181st University Commencement Ceremony on May 17. A seventh honorary degree will be bestowed on Sister Raffaella Petrini, F.S.E., president of the Pontifical Commission and Governorate of …

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Danny Chen, Joshua Shrout elected AAAS fellows

Two University of Notre Dame engineering faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific societies. Danny Chen, professor of computer science and engineering, and Joshua …

Ed Maginn, Massimo Morbidelli, and Monica Regalbuto

Three Notre Dame faculty, alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering

One faculty member and two graduate alumni from the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The new members are: Edward Maginn, the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Engineering at …

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Notre Dame ranks among top 100 US universities granted utility patents for third straight year

The University of Notre Dame has earned a spot on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2025, a list published annually by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The Top 100 U.S. Universities ranking highlights and celebrates U.S. academic institutions that play a …

Jonathan Chisum, Pat Fay, and Tom O'Sullivan

Chisum, Fay, and O’Sullivan named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors 

Three electrical engineers at the University of Notre Dame in the fields of next-gen wireless networks, advanced semiconductors, and biomedical imaging have been named 2026 Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This year’s honorees include Jonathan Chisum, Patrick Fay, and …

Meenal Datta, Yichun Wang, and Donny Hanjaya-Putra

Notre Dame Engineering faculty earn three consecutive CMBE Rising Star Awards (2024–26)

For three years in a row, a faculty member from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering has won the prestigious CMBE Rising Star Award given by the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group (CMBE-SIG). CMBE-SIG …