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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 …

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …