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Leading biomedical engineer John Fisher to direct Notre Dame’s Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative

Internationally recognized biomedical engineer John Fisher will join the University of Notre Dame as director of the campus-wide Bioengineering & Life Sciences Initiative (BELS) and Arthur J. Schmitt Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. His appointment begins …

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 prestigious CMBE Rising Star Award given by the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group (CMBE-SIG). CMBE-SIG …

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Physical pressure on the brain triggers neurons’ self-destruction programming

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This intricate communication network is built of billions of neurons connected by synapses and managed and modified by glial cells. When neurons die, this communication network is …

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Closer to the stars: Notre Dame students design and build their own Dobsonian telescope

Galileo did not invent the telescope, but he did engineer it into a precise scientific instrument. By grinding and refining his own lenses to increase their magnification, he was able to make observations that challenged the longstanding belief in a stationary earth. In astronomy, as in many other …

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Cheers to Recipients of the College of Engineering Staff Excellence Awards (Fall 2025)

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is pleased to announce the Fall 2025 recipients of the Staff Excellence Awards, which recognize staff members’ exemplary contributions above and beyond the scope of their standard job responsibilities. Award recipients are honored for having a substantial …

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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 …

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Thomas Corke awarded the Dryden Lectureship in Research by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Thomas Corke, the Clark Equipment Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta named the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 

Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been …

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Fighting to cure brain cancer

To better understand glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate …

Meenal Datta

Meenal Datta receives the 2025 Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society

Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the …