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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 …

Paul Bohn

Paul Bohn named director of the University of Notre Dame Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) Initiative

Paul Bohn, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the inaugural director of the new Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) Initiative. A joint initiative of the College …

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 …

Cushing Hall of Engineering relief

Cheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Fall 2023)

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Fall 2023 recipients of the Staff Excellence Awards, which recognize staff members' exemplary contributions above and beyond the scope of their standard job responsibilities. Award recipients are honored for having a substantial …

Edward Maginn

Notre Dame’s Edward Maginn named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Edward Maginn, Keough-Hesburgh Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Associate Vice …

Notre Dame Chem-E-Car team in front of AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition sign

Notre Dame’s Chem-E-Car team competes at AIChE student conference

The University of Notre Dame’s small-scale, chemically powered vehicle, the “Irish Good-bye,” was part of the …

6 Notre Dame Faculty who were recently awarded NIH MIRAs.

Notre Dame engineering faculty win NIH MIRA awards to support biomedical research

In less than a year, three faculty in the College of Engineering were awarded the Maximizing Investigators’ Research …

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 …

Paul Bohn

Paul Bohn honored as a fellow of the American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has selected Paul Bohn, the Arthur J. Schmitt Professor of Chemical and …