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The silk road to innovation: Entrepreneur Ailis Tweed-Kent, ’07, gives an ancient fiber new purpose 

Silk is the superhero of materials—as strong as a filament of steel, as stretchy as a bungee, yet able to dissolve naturally right back into the carbon cycle. To leverage silk’s special powers, Dr. Ailis Tweed-Kent, an alumna of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular …

Young man wearing a suit and conference badge stands beside a research poster titled “Charge-Based Anion-exchange Membrane Sensor Array for Ewing Sarcoma and Ovarian Cancer Diagnostics” at a scientific poster presentation.

Tyler Moorman presents cancer diagnostic research at AIChE

Tyler Moorman, a junior majoring in chemical and molecular engineering, presented his research paper “Charge-Based Anion-exchange Membrane Sensor Array for Ewing Sarcoma and Ovarian Cancer Diagnostics” at the 2025 AIChE Undergraduate Poster Competition in Boston, Massachusetts. Moorman was …

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Notre Dame engineer receives inaugural ARPA-H Emerging Health Innovators award to power lymphatic disease research

As many as 10 million people in the United States live with lymphedema, a chronic condition causing severe, painful swelling of the limbs. Secondary lymphedema occurs when a person’s lymph nodes are damaged, blocked, or impaired. Globally, the most prevalent trigger of secondary lymphedema is …

Jennifer Schaefer and Longwen Li

Jennifer Schaefer and Longwen Li receive 2026 research mentoring awards

A faculty member and a doctoral student in Notre Dame’s College of Engineering have been honored with the 2026 College of Engineering Outstanding Research Mentoring Awards for contributions to undergraduate education and research. The awards were based on nominations from undergraduate …

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Four Notre Dame Engineers among 2026 Graduate School award recipients

The Graduate School is pleased to announce its annual award winners for the 2025–2026 academic year. These awards include: the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award; the Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., Awards; the Dick and Peggy Notebaert Award; the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Awards; …

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Notre Dame researchers to advance detection and community knowledge of opioids, including new variants

Four teams of researchers across the College of Science and the College of Engineering have been selected to receive …

Ed Maginn, Massimo Morbidelli, and Monica Regalbuto

Three Notre Dame faculty, alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering

One faculty member and two graduate alumni from the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Chemical and …

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Notre Dame ranks among top 100 US universities granted utility patents for third straight year

The University of Notre Dame has earned a spot on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2025, a …

Meenal Datta, Yichun Wang, and Donny Hanjaya-Putra

Notre Dame Engineering faculty earn three consecutive CMBE Rising Star Awards (2024–26)

For three years in a row, a faculty member from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering has won the …

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 …