Tag: women in engineering

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Pinar Zorlutuna elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows

Pinar Zorlutuna, Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering and Director of the Bioengineering Program at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 2024 College of Fellows. AIMBE Fellows represent the top two percent of …

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Notre Dame sends cancer research aboard the International Space Station

University of Notre Dame researchers are taking their science to space aboard NASA’s 30th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission, which is slated to launch no earlier than Thursday (March 21). The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft will lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force …

Ming Hu

Architect builds for planet and people: Prof. Ming Hu

When Ming Hu talks about engineering and architecture, two fields merge into one. Combining analytical and technological skills with hand drawing and spatial literacy has led her to study, practice, and research solutions that are good for the planet and its people. She is emblematic of the …

Jennifer Schaefer

Chemical engineer drives sustainable energy forward: Prof. Jennifer Schaefer

On the first day of class each semester, Jennifer Schaefer tells her students that she chose chemical engineering because our everyday lives are shaped by the existence of plastics.  She wanted a field with tentacles stretching everywhere—from food and pharmaceuticals to consumer …

Shreya Kumar

Shreya Kumar to receive 2024 ND Women in Engineering Impact Award

Shreya Kumar, assistant teaching professor of computer science and engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Catherine F. Pieronek Women in Engineering Impact Award. The annual award honors a faculty or staff member in the Notre Dame College of Engineering “who has …

Sima Asadi

Welcome! Sima Asadi joins the faculty in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at the University of Notre Dame is pleased to introduce Sima Asadi, who joins the faculty as Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. Asadi is an expert in the field of infectious disease transmission who …

Yichun Wang

Yichun Wang receives NSF CAREER award to engineer nanomaterials for drug delivery

Yichun Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, one of the highest honors awarded to young faculty. Wang’s research focuses on the development of nanotherapeutics through …

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Understudied cell in the brain could be key to treating glioblastoma

Glioblastoma is one of the most treatment-resistant cancers, with those diagnosed surviving for less than two years. In a new study in NPJ Genomic Medicine, researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found that a largely understudied cell could offer new insight into how the aggressive, …

Dr. Dava Newman

Exploration for All: The Infinite to Spaceship Earth – An Edison Lecture at Notre Dame by Dava Newman ‘86 (ND) Ph.D. ‘92 (MIT)

Please join us for this capstone event celebrating 150 Years of Engineering at Notre Dame. December 7, 2023 at 1 p.m. Patricia George Decio Theatre, DeBartolo Performing Arts CenterUniversity of Notre Dame This is an un-ticketed event, and all are welcome. For those who are unable …

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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, …