Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences

Kyle Doudrick, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected to serve on the Science Advisory Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The board, which consists of 37 members from a broad range of scientific disciplines, provides scientific advice to EPA leadership. […] Th…

Hannah Spero, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) at the University of Notre Dame, has been named the recipient of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Doctoral Student Excellence in Teaching Award. This regional honor recognizes extraordinary dedication to the teaching and learning mission of […] The post Hannah S…

The University of Notre Dame’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, for the 2026 ASCE Indiana-Kentucky Student Symposium from April 9th through April 11th. Over 300 students from 12 universities across Indiana and Kentucky participated.  The Notre Dame ASCE Student Chapter earned a podium finish in 10 of the […] The post Notre Dame engineers …

Andrew Bartolini, director of the First-Year Engineering Program and associate teaching professor in the College of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2026 College of Engineering Outstanding Mentoring Award. This honor recognizes faculty members who extend their influence beyond academic instruction to foster the professional, personal, and holistic development of their students. Recipients are…

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; and the Social Justice Award. The award winners will […] The post Four Notre Dame Engineers among 2026 Gr…

Two University of Notre Dame engineering faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific societies. Danny Chen, professor of computer science and engineering, and Joshua Shrout, professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences, were recognized for distinguished c…

The University of Notre Dame has earned a spot on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2025, a list published annually by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The Top 100 U.S. Universities ranking highlights and celebrates U.S. academic institutions that play a large role in advancing innovation through the critical step of protecting their […] The post Notre Dame ranks am…

On a cold February night, more than 2,000 students gathered for Mass—nothing unusual in itself. What made the evening remarkable was the setting: a Gothic-style chapel of snow and ice. Designed and built by civil engineering student Martin Soros and architecture student Wesley Buonerba, St. Olaf’s Ice Chapel transformed snow and ice into a sacred […] The post Engineering in ice: Martin Soros on t…

Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame and the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development in Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, has been appointed the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Structural Engineering and Hazard Resilience. “Appointment to […] The post Tracy Kijewski-C…

Microscopic airborne particles known as PM 2.5 contribute to 100,000 premature deaths in the United States each year. A new University of Notre Dame study finds that 40 percent of these deaths can be attributed to pollution that crosses state lines, highlighting the impact of the problem and pinpointing which states are responsible. The study, […] The post New tool tracks cross-border pollution, …

Tracy Kijewski-Correa, professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences, with a joint appointment in the Keough School of Global Affairs, was installed on January 9 as president-elect of the American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE), the Americas division of the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE). Kijewski-Correa’s research enhances the resilience and …

Ice fog—a curtain of tiny ice crystals suspended above the earth’s surface—reduces visibility and makes air travel treacherous. How ice fog forms and why it persists is not entirely understood, and this has led to inaccurate forecasts, particularly visibility predictions that are critical for safe aviation and navigation.  To tackle this problem, a team of […] The post Shedding Light on Ice Fog i…

Kyle Bibby, professor and associate chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, and Jason Rohr, Ludmilla F., Stephen J., and Robert T. Galla College Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, were named 2025 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate/Web of Science. The distinction recognizes researchers whose scholarly […] The post …

The concept wasn’t new—the competition challenged scholars to present their complex research in just three minutes, equipped with a single slide, in a way that anyone could understand. While the Graduate School has hosted the Shaheen Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for graduate students for a decade, it’s the first time postdoctoral scholars have been […] The post Breakthrough Research. Tal…