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 “the first end-to-end business...

Meenal Datta, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering since fall 2021, presented an overview of her research at the NDnano networking lunch held December 20. Her talk at...

Jeffrey F. (Jeff) Rhoads, a leading mechanical engineering researcher and pioneer in engineering education, has been appointed vice president for research at the University of Notre Dame by Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., University president.

Nosang Myung, the Bernard Keating-Crawford Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Election as an NAI Fellow is the highest professional honor awarded solely...

Physics professor Xiaolong Liu studies novel quantum states of matter including unconventional superconductivity. His lab works to image the wave functions of electrons in complex materials.

A newly discovered technique, reported in the journal Nanoscale, offers a low-cost way to enhance the effectiveness of existing drugs.

Khachatur Manukyan, Research Associate Professor in the Nuclear Science Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, was awarded a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant from the Department of Defense. This grant aims to...

One of the IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame’s primary missions is to commercialize the inventions that emerge from faculty research. The commercialization process moves faculty discoveries into the marketplace and into the hands...

Notre Dame Materials Science and Engineering students recently toured the Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics (ISNAP) in Nieuwland Science Hall and learned how these unique facilities are utilized in materials research. Khachatur Manukyan…

During his presentation, Dr. Liu explained his team’s experimental research activities, including bottom-up synthesis of artificial quantum materials, creation of quantum simulators via single molecule manipulations, and atomic-scale visualization of superconducting and topological quantum matter via low-temperature scanning probe microscopy.

Cooling accounts for about 15 percent of global energy consumption. Conventional clear windows allow the sun to heat up interior spaces, which energy-guzzling air-conditioners must then cool down. But what if a window could help cool the room, use no...

Eight students were recognized for presentation of their research during the poster session at the 7th annual Notre Dame-Purdue Soft Matter and Polymers Symposium. The event was held in Jordan Hall of Science on October 29. This collaborative event...

This collaborative project aims to develop a method for imaging cerebral blood flow (CBF) to allow neuroscientists and neurologists to more clearly understand the complex link between neural activity and CBF.

Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and collaborators Alexander Dowling and Tengfei Luo…

Patrick Fay, professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded an endowed professorship. He was named Notre Dame’s Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology, effective September 1, 2022.

Kaiyu Fu, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, uses a multidisciplinary approach to develop real-time biosensors. 

Three faculty committees preside over the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) doctoral program. In alignment with the interdisciplinary nature of the program, each of the three committees has representation from the participating departments and programs.

In the past year,...

Notre Dame's interdisciplinary PhD program in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is growing rapidly. Now in its third year, the program has more than 35 students, easily on pace to reach the program projection of 50 students in five years....

David Burghoff, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2022 Moore Inventor Fellow.

He is one of five fellows named this year by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The fellows program supports...

Khachatur Manukyan, research associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, was honored by the 2022 1st Source Bank Commercialization Award for his first U.S. patent, number 9,580,323. The patent, "Method of...