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João Pedro Ferreira Gil, Paul Rumbach, and Peter Verges pose with the telescope

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 …

Three men work on scientific equipment in a lab. A man in a blue plaid shirt holds a black conical object, while another with a beard inserts a black tube into a large silver metallic apparatus. A man in a blue polo observes the process.

Alumni founder of carbon-capture start-up receives NSF funding to collaborate with Notre Dame researchers

Alec Houpt, who earned his doctorate from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) at …

Thomas Corke, a man with a mustache wearing a suit, stands in front of a wind turbine.

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 …

Two blue, gloved hands hold the superblack material

Robust, low-cost superblack material leverages fundamental geometry and engineering methods

Cave entrances often appear black and forbidding.  Light enters, but little escapes, absorbed as it “bounces …

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Pinar Zorlutuna elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society’s 2025 Class of Fellows

Pinar Zorlutuna, Roth-Gibson Professor of Bioengineering and director of the Bioengineering Program at the …