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Nolan Nicholson

Nicholson receives 2024 Robert P. Wadell Transportation Engineering Scholarship

Nolan Nicholson, a Notre Dame junior majoring in civil engineering, has received the 2024 Robert P. Wadell Transportation Engineering Scholarship, a national-level award given by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to an outstanding undergraduate pursuing a career in transportation …

Peter C Burns

Peter Burns elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Peter Burns, the Henry Massman Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director of Notre Dame’s Center for Sustainable Energy (ND Energy), has been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a lifetime fellow. AAAS is one of the world’s largest …

An image of the JOIDES research vessel with a stormy sky in the background

Sea-going expedition unearths clues to ancient climate

Millions of years ago, cataclysmic tectonic events closed the passageway between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, triggering profound changes in ocean circulation, temperature and salinity.  The JOIDES Resolution, a 470-ft research vessel capable of drilling cores three miles below …

William M. Fairley

William M. Fairley, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences

William M. Fairley, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences at the University of Notre Dame, passed away Oct. 9. He was 93. Fairley earned a bachelor’s degree at Colby College, a master’s degree in geology from the University of Maine and a doctoral …

Philip Barutha and Wade McGillis

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences welcomes two new faculty in 2022

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences is pleased to introduce two new members of the faculty, Philip Barutha and Wade McGillis. “It is wonderful to welcome these professors to our department,” said Diogo Bolster, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Hydrology …