Category: Research and Innovation

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Pinar Zorlutuna appointed Director of the Bioengineering Program at the University of Notre Dame

Pinar Zorlutuna, Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering, has been appointed Director of the Bioengineering Program, effective November 1, 2023. “We are fortunate to have someone so talented take on the directorship of this program as it enters a new era,” said Patricia Culligan, …

Patrick Wensing

Patrick Wensing receives IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award for contributions in robotics

Patrick Wensing, Wanzek Family Collegiate Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award. The award …

Main Building framed by Notre Dame Avenue trees. Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame.

Notre Dame to lead Midwest wireless technology consortium planning, partner on life sciences hub

The U.S. Department of Commerce and its Economic Development Administration (EDA) on Monday recognized two University of Notre Dame programs with a development grant and a Tech Hub designation. The announcements are the first phase of a nationwide economic development initiative designed to drive …

Grace Arntz-Johnson

Grace Arntz-Johnson receives U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award

Grace Arntz-Johnson, a Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has received the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. The award supports research opportunities at DOE …

Monisha Ghosh

Tackling wireless gridlock: electrical engineer and her students seek to improve spectrum sharing with better data

Every day, more networked devices — tablets, security cameras, smart watches — join an already congested wireless environment. As the number of devices grows, so too does the potential for disruptions. How can we achieve the goal of harmonious coexistence among myriad devices and …

Matthew Morrison

Matthew Morrison awarded Google Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship to advance digital hardware education

Matthew Morrison, associate teaching professor in computer science and engineering, has been awarded a Google Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship. His research project will focus on integrating semiconductor chip design software into K-12 and university curricula, with the goal of …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta awarded Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from NIH to investigate immune cell response to mechanical forces

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health. The award, …

Yichun Wang

Yichun Wang receives Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from NIH for novel drug-delivery platform

Yichun Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health. The award, …

Ten students learn how to load and run a sample in the differential scanning calorimeter (DSC).

SMASH Engineering: Student researchers take on soft materials in NSF REU at Notre Dame

Sustainable energy, clean water, affordable healthcare solutions — these were some of the issues that student-researchers from colleges and universities around the country addressed at Notre Dame this summer. The students were participants in SMASH Engineering, Soft Materials for …

Notre Dame engineering profs invent trap for capturing and comparing individual bacterial cells

All hospitals battle an invisible threat: Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It is a type of bacteria that affects thousands of patients each year in intensive care units, where it can cause sepsis, pneumonia and other types of infections. “For the average healthy person, P. aeruginosa does not pose a …