The most common reason people with lower-limb loss stop using their prosthesis is an ill-fitting socket. Everyday activities such as standing, walking, or stair climbing put enormous pressures on the soft tissues of the residual limb, which are not well-adapted to managing the forces these …
The Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health at the University of Notre Dame has announced the awardees of its Technology Development Fund for 2024. Four projects received funding, each of which aims to enhance a key area of knowledge at the frontier of science and engineering for …
Meenal Datta, assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, has received a Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award. The award, given by the journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), recognizes 12 “rising stars” in the field of biomedical …
Cell-Cell, Stanza-Stanza is a new conversation series that explores how science and poetry can work together to foster healing, especially in the context of cancer and serious illness. The first event in this series, held on April 17, 2024 at the University of Notre Dame, brought together a …
Neither a solid, liquid, nor gas, plasma doesn’t play by the same rules as the other states of matter. Its unique properties are particularly evident at plasma-liquid interfaces, where chemical, electric and fluid forces collide to create waves. In a recent paper in Physical Review …
The University of Notre Dame is part of a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Gen-4 Engineering Research Center …
The Notre Dame College of Engineering welcomes 13 new members to the faculty this fall. “We are pleased to …
Chemical separation, including gas separation, accounts for a whopping 15 percent of U.S. energy consumption and …
The University of Notre Dame’s Rocketry Team (NDRT) was declared the overall winner of NASA’s 2024 University …
Power plants, factories, car engines—everything that consumes energy produces heat, much of which is wasted. …