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Seven engineering faculty named Collegiate Professors

Seven University of Notre Dame College of Engineering faculty members have been named Collegiate Professors in recognition of their exceptional contributions to research, teaching and service. Awarded across all professor ranks, this prestigious title honors faculty who have demonstrated sustained …

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2026 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellows in Engineering

This fall, the College of Engineering welcomes six new postdoctoral fellows through the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a university-wide initiative. Now in its second year, the program supports talented, highly motivated scholars committed to Notre Dame’s mission—to be a powerful …

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Computer science students tackle human trafficking with tech

While the internet has provided sex traffickers with sophisticated tools for recruitment and exploitation, University of Notre Dame computer science students are learning how to marshal technology-based tools to stop it.  To do this, Shreya Kumar, an associate teaching professor in computer …

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Engineering professors awarded research grant to support pre-college program in Jerusalem

Engineering faculty members Diego Gómez-Zará and Karla Badillo-Urquiola are this year's grant recipients of the Jerusalem Research Development Grant. Their proposal builds on Notre Dame Jerusalem’s newly developed ADAM pre-college gap year program. The ADAM pre-college program is …

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NSF Cyber SMART Center announces inaugural recipients of its Distinguished Dissertation Award, recognizing complex, multidisciplinary research across computer and information science

This summer, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Cyber SMART Center announced its inaugural Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients. The center’s focus is advancing holistic, multidisciplinary research across the full spectrum of cyber and compute fields, including its …

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How big is your laptop’s carbon footprint? 

Your laptop might politely sip electricity at your desk, but it has already feasted on a banquet of fossil …

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Tim Weninger selected for the newest class of U.S. Defense Science Study Group

Tim Weninger, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has …

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Notre Dame launches Minor in Earth and Planetary Sciences with focus on space exploration

The University of Notre Dame announces the launch of the Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) minor, a multidisciplinary …

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Notre Dame experts respond to Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica humanitas

ND Experts Kathleen Sprows CummingsAmerican Studies Meghan SullivanDepartment of …

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Notre Dame engineers place second overall at AIMM ICC with AI modular boat

The University of Notre Dame’s Artificial Intelligence Maritime Maneuver (AIMM) team secured a second-place finish …