Category: Awards and Honors

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Notre Dame Awards Prestigious Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025

This fall, the College of Engineering welcomes seven new postdoctoral fellows through the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) initiative. Six of the fellows will join as part of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a …

Ahsan Kareem

Notre Dame expert in resilient infrastructure elected to the European Academy of Sciences 

Ahsan Kareem, the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences. The honor recognizes his work advancing the safety and resilience of …

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 …

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 …

Ornate stone entrance to Cushing Hall of Engineering, with the building name engraved in gothic-style lettering above a large arched wooden door, partially framed by green leaves in the foreground.

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 …

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 …

Kevin Bowyer

Kevin Bowyer named Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS

Kevin Bowyer, Schubmehl-Prein Family Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS. ScholarGPS ranks scholars worldwide based on a matrix of research productivity, impact and …

Taeho Jung and Paul Rumbach

Notre Dame Engineering profs receive Joyce Awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching

Two faculty members in the College of Engineering have received the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The Joyce Award honors Notre Dame faculty members who have had a profound influence on undergraduate students through sustained exemplary …