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  • Notre Dame convenes industry leaders, alumni, and faculty for roundtable discussion to shape the future of AI-ready education

    • In April, the University of Notre Dame’s Data, AI, and Computing Initiative welcomed over 40 industry leaders from across sectors, including energy, finance, government, insurance, nonprofit and pharmaceuticals, for an “Industry Leaders Roundtable” with University faculty and alumni.

  • Fighting to cure brain cancer

    • To better understand glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, a Notre Dame researcher thought outside the box—and off planet Earth.

  • Researchers at Notre Dame’s Lucy Family Institute partner with Mastercard to advance global responsible AI

    • Notre Dame’s Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society is partnering with Mastercard to study how AI systems can be designed and governed to perform more consistently across languages and regions. The collaboration focuses on improving outcomes for non-native English speakers and developing model transfer and retraining approaches that allow AI to operate effectively across jurisdictions without compromising data protections.

  • Cisco Gift Supports 6 GHz Spectrum Research at Notre Dame

    • The Wireless Institute at the University of Notre Dame is pleased to announce a $100,000 gift from Cisco to support cutting-edge research led by Professor Monisha Ghosh focused on the use and future of the 6 GHz wireless spectrum.

  • Exobiosphere’s Biotech Platform for Advanced Ground and Space Research to be installed at Notre Dame

    • Biotech startup Exobiosphere has entered into a strategic agreement with the University of Notre Dame for the university to acquire, validate, and deploy a terrestrial version of its automated high-throughput screening system. The platform, about the size of a carry-on suitcase, will be installed at Notre Dame in mid-2026 for use in biomedical research and as a ground-based testbed supporting future spaceflight experiments.

  • Coca‑Cola Kicks Off the Coca‑Cola FC Academy, Aiming to Power Future Careers in Sports & Beyond

    • With FIFA World Cup 26 on the horizon, Coca‑Cola launched Coca‑Cola Future Careers Academy. This ambitious new soccer-inspired learning and career development experience is designed to equip young people with the skills and confidence to step into sports marketing and related industries. Notre Dame student & soccer player Daniel Boateng is participating in the Academy. In addition, Coca-Cola is investing in a broader suite of economic empowerment programs, including the University of Notre Dame's Urban Poverty Business Initiative (UPBI). Housed within the University's Keough School of Global Affairs, UPBI supports disadvantaged entrepreneurs in FIFA World Cup 26 host cities.

  • Tackling e-waste with biodegradable electronics

    • Tingyu Cheng, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and his lab have developed a new, more sustainable electronic prototyping technique to address significant environmental problem of e-waste. Cheng’s lab fabricates hardware components from biodegradable materials that can be dissolved, easily recycled, or even safely eaten.

  • Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab Raise the Bar 2025: Key Takeaways and What's Next

    • On October 29–30 in IBM’s flagship office, One Madison Avenue, New York City, the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab’s signature annual conference, Raise The Bar, brought together nearly 200 senior leaders from business, technology, and academia to explore how large enterprises can deploy artificial intelligence responsibly at scale. Framed around a “think and do” model, the event moved from ideas to implementation, with Day 1 dedicated to critical reflection and Day 2 focused on hands-on action.

  • Notre Dame opens new Wideband Test Facility

    • The new Wideband Test Facility at the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana, USA) officially opened to researchers and industry partners. The test facility is the latest addition to the University’s existing facilities for microelectronics development and testing, which include state-of-the-art nanofabrication and integrated imaging facilities.

  • Notre Dame’s Meenal Datta launches cancer research — and students’ careers — through space industry partnerships

    • With its first voyage, planned for later this year, the Dream Chaser will make history as the only commercial runway capable spaceplane. The launch will also be a momentous occasion for University of Notre Dame researcher Meenal Datta. Among the spaceplane’s cargo, contained within a specially designed CubeLab, will be an experiment designed by Datta and her students.

  • Stretchable bioelectronics promise more accurate health monitoring devices

    • Yanliang Zhang, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Collegiate associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, together with colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Purdue University, has created a novel material that seamlessly transitions between soft tissues and stiff electronics—stretchy enough to move with the body’s dynamic changes yet stiff enough to maintain electrical connectivity. The team’s results have been published in Advanced Materials.

  • Notre Dame among the first 100 members of the National Semiconductor Technology Center

    • The University of Notre Dame is among the first 100 members of the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC). The NSTC is the public-private consortium established by the CHIPS and Science Act. Through the NSTC, Notre Dame helps to enhance U.S.-led semiconductor research and innovation, build a strong domestic semiconductor workforce, and strengthen the United States’ leadership position in the global semiconductor industry.

  • Notre Dame researchers advance encryption and high-performance microelectronics technologies

    • Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have received new funding through the Silicon Crossroads Microelectronic Commons (SCMC) Hub as a part of the CHIPS and Science Act. The Silicon Crossroads Microelectronic Commons (SCMC) Hub is one of eight nationally funded hubs, led by the Applied Research Institute. 

  • Soft, air-filled "muscles" power a new robotic exosuit created at Notre Dame

    • Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are working to show that for many real-world applications, there is value in exploring robotics’ softer side. "Soft exosuits can help solve several engineering challenges,” explains Margaret Coad, whose lab recently published a paper on a soft robotic exosuit designed to fit the wrist.

  • Notre Dame researchers develop new, ultra-power-efficient 5G antenna

    • With funding from the U.S. Army, researchers at the University of Notre Dame are launching an effort that will apply prior research conducted at the University on the physics of low-power antennas. Working with a set of industry partners, they aim to produce an antenna that delivers 5G-level performance while using less than ten percent of the energy.

  • Notre Dame researchers advance encryption and high-performance microelectronics technologies

    • Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have received new funding through the Silicon Crossroads Microelectronic Commons (SCMC) Hub as a part of the CHIPS and Science Act. In the fall of 2024, the White House announced the initial round of technical projects through the Microelectronic Commons program. The SCMC Hub was funded five (5) of the 34 technical projects, two of which will involve Notre Dame faculty members.

  • Gang Liu receives IBM Fellowship

    • Gang Liu, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received an IBM PhD Fellowship Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. The award will support Liu’s research, which uses graph machine learning to discover new materials.

  • Simret Gebreegziabher receives IBM PhD Fellowship Award

    • Simret Gebreegziabher, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received an IBM PhD Fellowship Award for the 2024-2025 academic year. The prestigious award recognizes Gebreegziabher’s work to date within the realm of responsible Human-Artificial Intelligence (AI) interaction and matches her with IBM mentors as she continues research to develop frameworks that democratize AI.

  • Notre Dame opens world’s first Large Mach 10 Quiet Wind Tunnel

    • On Saturday, November 9, 2024, the University of Notre Dame marked the successful opening of a Large Mach 10 Quiet Wind Tunnel, the first and only facility of its kind in the world. The facility supplies a unique environment for exploring hypersonic flight dynamics, turbulence, flight control, and propulsion.

  • Santos wins Google Research Award

    • Joanna Cecilia da Silva Santos, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has received a Google Research Scholar Award for her project “Leveraging the Power of LLMs to Generate Security Tests for Mobile Apps.” The project’s goal is to make mobile apps safer by using AI to catch security issues early.

  • Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab draws industry leaders to campus for Responsible AI in Finance event

    • Senior-level executives in the finance industry, tech experts, and cutting-edge researchers gathered on campus last week for a conference on the importance of responsible AI in finance, exploring the opportunities and challenges artificial intelligence presents to the sector. Central to the conversation were the themes of transparency, fairness, and accountability as companies integrate this immensely powerful technology.

  • Notre Dame Dublin launches IBM Graduate Fellows research program for Ph.D. students

    • Notre Dame Dublin has reinvigorated their partnership with IBM Ireland through a new Joint Study Agreement. Over the 2024 summer session, IBM Ireland hosted the first two students on the IBM Graduate Fellows Program, a 10-week research internship for Notre Dame Ph.D. students in STEM disciplines.

  • Notre Dame to develop next-generation refrigerant technology as part of a new National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center

    • The University of Notre Dame is part of a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Gen-4 Engineering Research Center (ERC) called EARTH, which stands for Environmental Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub. Led by the University of Kansas, EARTH will bring together 80 institutions and researchers from a wide array of disciplines. In addition to Notre Dame, the University of Maryland, the University of Hawai'i, the University of South Dakota and Lehigh University will serve as core university partners.

  • Notre Dame elected to Universities Space Research Association to advance space exploration research

    • Founded in 1969 under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the U.S. Government, the USRA is a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology, and engineering. The USRA consists of 120 universities that work together to advance space-related education, research, development, and operations around the world.

  • Notre Dame sends cancer research aboard the International Space Station

    • University of Notre Dame researchers are taking their science to space aboard NASA’s 30th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission, which is slated to launch no earlier than Thursday (March 21). The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft will lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and travel to the International Space Station (ISS), which is in orbit roughly 250 miles above Earth’s surface. In addition to food, supplies and equipment for the ISS crew, the spacecraft will transport an experimental study from researchers in Notre Dame’s Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.

  • Notre Dame joins consortium to support responsible artificial intelligence

    • The consortium, called the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), was formed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce that works to develop standards for emerging technologies. As part of the new consortium, University of Notre Dame researchers will help establish the advanced measurement techniques required to identify the risks associated with current AI systems and to develop new systems that are safer and more trustworthy.

  • Notre Dame joins IBM, Meta, other partners in founding new AI Alliance

    • On Tuesday (Dec. 5), the University of Notre Dame joined with partners around the world to launch the AI Alliance. The AI Alliance is a broad, international coalition of organizations that are working across numerous aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) education, research, development, deployment and governance. Its aim is to enhance the social benefits of AI by supporting open innovation and ensuring that AI systems are safe, secure and trustworthy.

  • Researchers use AI to track chemotherapy complications, help families fighting pediatric cancer

    • In Mexico, where cancer is the second leading cause of death for children, families travel a significant distance to specialty hospitals for chemotherapy treatment. When a patient leaves the hospital after treatment, there is no system to follow up on their recovery or outcome. This was the challenge that Nitesh Chawla, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society at the University of Notre Dame, and Angélica García Martínez, postdoctoral research associate at the Lucy Family Institute, set out to address.

  • Notre Dame hosts 800 local high school students for first Building Trades Day

    • The event was an opportunity for students to meet local employers, explore trades education and career opportunities in the greater South Bend community, and see how their classroom learning can build a foundation for future success.

  • Doosan Enerbility recognized for supporting sustainable energy research at Notre Dame

    • On Wednesday, September 27, the University of Notre Dame added Doosan Enerbility to the University's Founders Wall. Located just off Notre Dame avenue near the University’s main entrance, the Founders Wall recognizes individuals and organizations that have contributed five million dollars or more to support the University’s academic mission.

  • Matthew Morrison awarded Google Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship to advance digital hardware education

    • Matthew Morrison, associate teaching professor in computer science and engineering, has been awarded a Google Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship. His research project will focus on integrating semiconductor chip design software into K-12 and university curricula, with the goal of accelerating the training of semiconductor hardware professionals around the country.

  • Will math show that muscle form matters? Notre Dame Sports Performance, ACMS join forces as part of NFL charities grant examining hamstring injuries

    • The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (ACMS) has partnered with Notre Dame’s Department of Athletics on a project funded by the National Football League (NFL) to investigate potential risk factors for hamstring injuries. The aim is to harness the knowledge that can help better identify at risk athletes and even predict injuries before they occur.

  • Notre Dame partners with Tennessee State and nine other HBCUs to grow the U.S. microelectronics workforce

    • Matt Morrison, associate teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, recently joined Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI). The initiative provides $50 million to support science, technology, engineering, arts, and math opportunities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).

  • Notre Dame Welcomes Young African Leaders for six-week leadership institute

    • Notre Dame’s President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., welcomed 23 of Africa’s brightest emerging leaders to campus on June 26 for a six-week Leadership Institute sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The cohort hails from 18 African nations and is part of the 2023 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of the U.S. Government’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). The Pulte Institute has been a YALI partner since 2013.

  • Brianna Lynn Wimer named 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow to address computing needs of vision-impaired people

    • Brianna Lynn Wimer, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named a 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellow. The fellowship recognizes graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields.

  • ND Experts on the opportunities, concerns and impacts of AI

    • University of Notre Dame experts reflect on the opportunities, concerns and impacts of AI on different fields — including entertainment and media, the arts, politics, the labor market, education and business. Several of these faculty are affiliates of the interdisciplinary Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center.

  • Collaboration for cold-chain biological transportation in Belize yields positive results

    • The Notre Dame Belize Response Initiative for Cold-Chain (ND-BRICC) Development Project is a collaboration with the Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness, which received financial support from Carrier, an industry leader in cold chain innovation, and its Sensitech business, as well as donations from UPS Healthcare.

  • The Chip Makers: Students at ND's Nanofabrication Facility

    • Each year, a group of Notre Dame students receives a massive—though tiny—challenge: Build a semiconductor chip inside Notre Dame’s nanofabrication facility

  • A Science of Disruption: Prof. Diego Gómez-Zará in partnership with Amazon

    • Prof. Gómez-Zará (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering) has developed data-driven tools for determining the factors that make a product, concept, and technology become disruptive rather than developmental. And now, with new funding from Amazon, he is ready to develop tools to predict early on—even before launch or publication—whether a technology will be widely adopted or whether a new idea will catch on.

  • Sierra Space and Notre Dame to Push the Boundaries of Scientific Discovery in Space

    • The University of Notre Dame and Sierra Space signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to facilitate future collaborations that advance space research and exploration. A leading pureplay commercial space company, Sierra Space is building “the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space to benefit life on Earth.”

  • Anna McGinn ’22 J.D., one of ND Law’s Bank of America Foundation Fellows, helps free wrongfully convicted man

    • McGinn is working with the Great North Innocence Project for two years as a Bank of America Foundation Fellow — one of the public-interest legal fellowships granted each year to members of Notre Dame Law School’s graduating class.

  • Notre Dame partners with Accenture to grow health equity data and analytics to improve health care for vulnerable populations

    • With the support of a gift from Accenture, the first undertaking for the Health Equity Data Lab at the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society is the Accenture Health Equity Data project, led by Nitesh Chawla, the institute’s founding director and the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Accenture has also committed to a fundraising campaign with its employees and alumni, including those who have ties to Notre Dame, over a three-year period.

  • Notre Dame Patient Advocacy Initiative receives founding gift from Horizon Therapeutics

    • Horizon Therapeutics, a biotechnology company whose mission is to deliver medicines for rare, autoimmune and severe inflammatory diseases, has made a founding five-year gift to establish the University of Notre Dame’s Patient Advocacy Initiative in the College of Science.

  • Notre Dame graduates development professionals from first online course

    • Initially created for long-standing Pulte Institute partner Chemonics International, the course immersed the organization’s learners in the fundamental concepts about data and the use of data in the development context. The three-level course is designed to meet learners where they are physically, culturally, and professionally while still considering the personalized needs of each learner.