Tag: Graduate student

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ND grad student fuses classical and quantum computing to improve skin disease diagnosis 

Early diagnosis of skin diseases greatly improves patient outcomes, but subtle symptoms often demand a dermatologist’s trained eye. While computers can assist by learning from high-quality medical images, the scarcity of such data remains a major barrier to fast, accurate …

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Eight current or former University of Notre Dame students have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, with an additional 16 singled out for honorable mention for the award.

Established in 1952, the Graduate Research Fellowship Program provides financial and other support to students in NSF-backed STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) disciplines to participate in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs at accredited institutions in the …

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Four Notre Dame Engineers recognized among 2025 Graduate School award winners

Four members of the Notre Dame engineering community have been named 2025 award recipients by the Graduate School, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to graduate education and research. The honorees include two faculty members and two doctoral students whose achievements reflect …

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A game, not a grind: Notre Dame students develop mobile app to make math fun

Students often say that math is their least favorite subject—too abstract, too much about memorizing rules and formulae, and, frankly, not much fun. That’s why two Notre Dame students have created an educational, gamified math app, Pi-Squared. Their mobile phone app, designed for students …

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Gang Liu receives IBM Fellowship

Gang Liu, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received an IBM PhD Fellowship Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. The award will support Liu’s research, which uses graph machine learning to discover new …

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Machine learning discovers ‘hidden-gem’ materials for heat-free gas separation

Chemical separation, including gas separation, accounts for a whopping 15 percent of U.S. energy consumption and produces millions of tons of carbon emissions. Separating gases by passing them through membranes could be an efficient, environmentally-friendly alternative to current methods—if …

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 …

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Brianna Lynn Wimer named 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow to address computing needs of vision-impaired people

Brianna Lynn Wimer, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow. The fellowship recognizes graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related …

Laura M. Alderfer wins Notre Dame’s Shaheen Graduate Student Award

Laura M. Alderfer, Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Bioengineering, is the 2023 recipient of Notre Dame’s Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate Student Award. She will be formally recognized for her achievements at the Graduate School Commencement Ceremony to be held at Notre …