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Matthew Webber

Matthew Webber receives 2024 ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award

Matthew Webber, Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Engineering and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been honored with the 2024 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The …

Alexander Dowling

Alexander Dowling awarded IChemE’s Junior Sargent Medal for pushing boundaries in chemical engineering, applied math, and computational science

Alexander Dowling, assistant professor, chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been awarded the Junior Sargent Medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). The Junior Sargent Medal recognizes a major contribution to computer-aided product and process engineering research by an …

New nanomaterial sets magnetic trap for disease biomarkers

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have devised a low-cost filter that can rapidly isolate and trap biomarkers for cancer with a 99% success rate. Their novel filter uses magnetic fields to capture lipoproteins, which are biomarkers for stroke …