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Meenal Datta, a woman with long black hair, wearing a blue blazer and patterned blouse, stands in a laboratory with scientific equipment and glassware in the background. She has a confident and professional expression.

Meenal Datta receives NSF CAREER award to advance her research on how mechanical forces can disrupt the immune system

Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, has received a …

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Ink-based thermoelectric technology could be solution for replacing problematic refrigerants

Today’s refrigerants, which are specialized working fluids used in air conditioners, refrigerators, and heat pumps, …

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Engineering in Photos: May 2026

Engineering in Photos highlights the people, accomplishments, and experiences that shaped the College throughout May …

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Tim Weninger selected for the newest class of U.S. Defense Science Study Group

Tim Weninger, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has …

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The silk road to innovation: Entrepreneur Ailis Tweed-Kent, ’07, gives an ancient fiber new purpose 

Silk is the superhero of materials—as strong as a filament of steel, as stretchy as a bungee, yet able to dissolve …

Young man wearing a suit and conference badge stands beside a research poster titled “Charge-Based Anion-exchange Membrane Sensor Array for Ewing Sarcoma and Ovarian Cancer Diagnostics” at a scientific poster presentation.

Tyler Moorman presents cancer diagnostic research at AIChE

Tyler Moorman, a junior majoring in chemical and molecular engineering, presented his research paper “Charge-Based …

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Notre Dame engineer receives inaugural ARPA-H Emerging Health Innovators award to power lymphatic disease research

As many as 10 million people in the United States live with lymphedema, a chronic condition causing severe, painful …

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ND Sensor Initiative announces installment of new, specialized mass spectrometers

Earlier this spring, the Notre Dame Sensor Initiative (NDSI) installed two new instruments in …

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Notre Dame launches Minor in Earth and Planetary Sciences with focus on space exploration

The University of Notre Dame announces the launch of the Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) minor, a multidisciplinary …

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Notre Dame experts respond to Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica humanitas

ND Experts Kathleen Sprows CummingsAmerican Studies Meghan SullivanDepartment of …