Category: Interview

An image of the ice chapel at night with many people gathered for Mass and candles lighting the chapel.

Engineering in ice: Martin Soros on the building of St. Olaf’s Chapel

On a cold February night, more than 2,000 students gathered for Mass—nothing unusual in itself. What made the evening remarkable was the setting: a Gothic-style chapel of snow and ice. Designed and built by civil engineering student Martin Soros and architecture student Wesley Buonerba, St. …

McKenna Englhardt and Kylee Kazenski in their leprechaun costumes

Engineers and Leprechauns: McKenna Englhardt and Kylee Kazenski

Leprechauns are small, bearded tricksters known for making shoes and mischief. Not anymore. Today’s Notre Dame leprechauns are more likely to be working with Navier-stokes equations and coding with C++ than cobbling shoes. Two women engineers portray the Notre Dame leprechaun this year: …