At the University of Notre Dame, Margaret McGuinness — assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering — is testing a flexible, extendable robot that grows like a vine and can be steered around obstacles and through narrow passageways, holding a camera on the …
Scientists used to think that when a cell released a tiny, membrane-covered bubble—an extracellular vesicle (EV)—it was just taking out the trash. Then, in the 1990s and early 2000s, researchers discovered that these circulating microscopic bubbles were actually part of a critical …
Meenal Datta, the Jane Schoelch DeFlorio Collegiate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award to advance her research on uncovering how mechanical forces disrupt the immune …
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 — …