The time-honored Edisonian trial-and-error process of discovery is slow and labor-intensive. This hampers the development of urgently needed new technologies for clean energy and environmental sustainability, as well as for electronics and biomedical devices. “It usually takes 10 to 20...
With more than $3 million from the U.S. Department of Defense, one University of Notre Dame researcher is on a mission to help eliminate PFAS on military bases.
Each year, a group of Notre Dame students receives a massive—though tiny—challenge: Build a semiconductor chip inside Notre Dame’s nanofabrication facility It was the fall of 2021, and headlines were bristling with stories about the ongoing “chip choke.” A group...
Notre Dame Day, the University's annual day of giving, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. From April 25th to 26th, alumni, parents, students, and friends of Notre Dame will have the chance to support the causes, clubs, and residence...
The Sakaue Lab combines fluid mechanics and chemistry in four signature areas: flow measurement, flow control (chemical flow control), bio/biomedical, and green energy/environment.
Rapid advances in computing requires teachers to stay ahead of the technological curve, but who will teach the teachers? For the past seven summers, up to a dozen local area high-school STEM teachers have come to campus for research experiences...
The NSF-funded Soft Materials for Applications in Sustainability and Healthcare Engineering (SMASH Engineering) REU site at the University of Notre Dame will provide an immersive, full-time research experience for undergraduate students to develop their ability to advance materials-based solutions…
Michael Hildreth, professor of physics and astronomy and senior associate dean for research and graduate studies in the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, has…
Matthew J. Webber, Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor of Engineering and associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been inducted as a fellow into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
“Today, the big challenges are information technology and energy,” says László Forró, the Aurora and Thomas Marquez Professor of Physics of Complex Quantum Matter in the University of Notre Dame's Department of Physics and Astronomy. “But tomorrow, the big challenge will be...
Three students pursuing the doctorate in materials science and engineering (MSE) at Notre Dame were the featured speakers at the program’s first two community-building events of the spring semester.
At the February NDnano networking lunch for affiliated faculty and staff, Dr. Guo presented background information on opportunities to lower energy consumption in industrial gas separations and how polymer membranes could be utilized.
The fast-growing and aggressive brain tumor known as glioblastoma has so far resisted all therapies, including immunotherapy, a treatment that harnesses the body’s immune system to destroy cancer cells. In a new study, researchers have demonstrated how a safe and...
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.
Prashant Kamat, Rev. John A. Zahm Professor of Science at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as the 2023 Crano Memorial Lecturer. The Crano Memorial Lecture Series is overseen by the Akron Section of the American Chemical Society...
An allergen-specific inhibitor devised by researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine has successfully prevented potentially life-threatening allergic responses to peanuts. The results of the new study were just published in Science Translational Medicine.
Pinar Zorlutuna, professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. She was named Notre Dame’s Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering, effective…
At the January NDnano network lunch, Dr. Zhang shared how he and his group are developing methods to manufacture and transform a broad range of emerging nanoscale materials into sustainable and flexible energy, sensor, and electronic systems.
Five faculty members at the University of Notre Dame have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as lifetime fellows. The fellows include Patricia A. Champion, Jon P. Camden, Yih-Fang Huang, Ahsan Kareem and Rebecca Surman....
This month, the University of Notre Dame and Sierra Space signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to facilitate future collaborations that advance space research and exploration. A leading pureplay commercial space company, Sierra Space is building…
