Category: Awards and Honors

Ed Maginn

Notre Dame’s Edward Maginn elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Edward Maginn, the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the NAE is among the highest …

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Yamil Colón selected to join the New Voices program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Yamil Colón, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been selected for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s New Voices program, an initiative that brings emerging leaders into NASEM’s advisory work. Selected through a merit-based, …

Alexander Dowling

Alexander Dowling receives AIChE Outstanding Young Researcher Award

Alexander Dowling, the Tony and Sarah Earley Collegiate Associate Professor of Energy and the Environment, has won the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The award recognizes his …

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Notre Dame doctoral student wins first-place Judges’ Award in Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) competition

Shammah Lilonfe, a doctoral student in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, won the first-place Judges’ Award at the 2025 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition during the organization’s annual …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta receives the 2025 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society

Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected by the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) to receive its 2025 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award. This single-recipient award is BMES’s …

Troy Vogel

Troy Vogel wins the 2025 AIChE’s Service to Chemical Engineering Education Award

Troy Vogel, teaching professor in the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and director of undergraduate studies, has won the 2025 Service to Chemical Engineering Education Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). AIChE is a …

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Notre Dame opens applications for 2026 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program

The University of Notre Dame is accepting applications for the next cohort of Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellows, a select group of early-career scholars in science, engineering, and the liberal arts who are committed to Notre Dame’s mission to be a powerful force for good in the world. Up to …

William Schneider named 2025 American Chemical Society Fellow

William F. Schneider, Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named a 2025 American Chemical Society (ACS) fellow. Fellows are selected for outstanding contributions to science and service to the ACS …

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Notre Dame Awards Prestigious Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025

This fall, the College of Engineering welcomes seven new postdoctoral fellows through the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) initiative. Six of the fellows will join as part of the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a …

Yichun Wang

Yichun Wang named standing member of NIH Innovations in Nanosystems and Nanotechnology Study Section

Yichun Wang, Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed to serve as a standing member of the Innovations in Nanosystems and Nanotechnology (INN) Study Section …