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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 seed funding from the Notre Dame Sensor Initiative (NDSI) for research advancing affordable, fast, and accurate platforms for on-site opioid detection. As opioid …

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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 Biomolecular Engineering have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The new members are: Edward Maginn, the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Engineering at …

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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 list published annually by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The Top 100 U.S. Universities ranking highlights and celebrates U.S. academic institutions that play 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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …