Tag: Women in Engineering 2026

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Inaugural Notre Dame bioengineering club wins gold at international iGEM competition

A team of five undergraduate researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s College of Science and College of Engineering earned a gold medal at the iGEM Grand Jamboree in Paris, France. iGEM—the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition—is an annual global event that …

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ND grad student fuses classical and quantum computing to improve skin disease diagnosis 

Early diagnosis of skin diseases greatly improves patient outcomes, but subtle symptoms often demand a dermatologist’s trained eye. While computers can assist by learning from high-quality medical images, the scarcity of such data remains a major barrier to fast, accurate …

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Team led by Professor Fanny Ye awarded 2025 Poverty Research Package

The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support high-impact, poverty-related research projects led by Notre Dame faculty in multiple disciplines. The Initiative’s second annual call for proposals drew a strong response, with 18 …

Four students pose with Professor Karla Badillo-Urquiola for a photo in front of a banner for the International School on Responsible Computing.

Crossing borders with NDG grants: How a professor is ensuring ethics stay in the conversation about technology

As technology progresses, are the conversations about the ethics surrounding it doing the same? As an assistant professor of computer science and engineering, Karla Badillo-Urquiola is working to make sure that they do. She recognizes the challenges that universities face in trying to keep up with …

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Sharon Hu receives IEEE 2024 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award 

Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received the 2024 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award from IEEE’s Technical Community on Real-Time Systems …