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Jing Wang named 2026 Outstanding Teacher in Notre Dame College of Engineering

Jing Wang, associate teaching professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, has won the 2026 Outstanding Teaching Award in the Notre Dame College of Engineering.  The award honors an engineering faculty member — selected each year by undergraduates in engineering — …

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Four Notre Dame Engineers among 2026 Graduate School award recipients

The Graduate School is pleased to announce its annual award winners for the 2025–2026 academic year. These awards include: the Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award; the Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., Awards; the Dick and Peggy Notebaert Award; the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Awards; …

Yanliang Zhang

Notre Dame Engineering and Harvard Medical School collaborate on 4-year NIH project to create lab-grown organs

While scientists have successfully printed small patches of human tissue, scaling those tissues into full-sized organs has remained elusive. In natural organisms, every cell must be within roughly 100 to 200 micrometers—about the thickness of two human hairs—of a blood vessel to receive oxygen …

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Brian Blagg Receives Top Honor; Engineering’s Moon and Pratt Earn Second and Third as Notre Dame and 1st Source Honor Faculty Innovation at Commercialization Awards Dinner

On Tuesday, March 24, University leaders, faculty members, and community partners gathered in downtown South Bend to celebrate research and innovation at the 1st Source Faculty Commercialization Award dinner. This event honors faculty researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana …

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Heart-on-a-chip device identifies youth-enhancing “cocktail” to repair old hearts

The heart is a pump that wears out over time—that, at least, was the prevailing view. New research has shown that the heart’s aging results from changes in intercellular communications, which tell heart cells, sometimes even healthy ones, to stiffen and break down. By decoding these complex …

Katharine White and Donny Hanjaya-Putra

Notre Dame researchers uncover the molecular driving force behind hallmark of aggressive, metastatic cancers

To invade healthy tissues and continue growing, aggressive cancers mimic and circumvent the body’s native piping …

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Notre Dame ranks among top 100 US universities granted utility patents for third straight year

The University of Notre Dame has earned a spot on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2025, a …

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3D-bioprinted model offers new way to study and treat obesity-related heart disease

Heart disease is the leading cause of death among people with obesity, a condition affecting one in eight people …

Shivam Barwey

Notre Dame Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering welcomes machine learning expert Shivam Barwey

During the spring semester, the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering welcomed Shivam Barwey as an …

John Fisher

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 …