Tag: Women in Engineering 2025

Patricia J. Culligan and two students stand on a green roof in New York City, examining data from a monitoring device. The roof has grass and plants, with the Empire State Building and other buildings visible in the background under a clear blue sky.

Optimizing for people: a conversation with Patricia Culligan on urban green infrastructure

As urban populations grow and temperatures rise, city dwellers will rely on cool, green, shady places as never before. Green infrastructure—such as green roofs, rain gardens, urban forests—offer sustainable solutions to the water management and heat dissipation challenges unique to cities. …

A home destroyed by Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 hurricane, which struck Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in 2017. Engineers at Notre Dame have been leading assessments of structural damage following major hurricanes and warn rapidly intensifying storms like Helene and Milton are the new normal. (Photo: University of Notre Dame)

ND Expert: Hurricanes like Milton, Helene are the new normal

There is no rest for weary Florida residents who have yet to recover from Hurricane Helene. Less than two weeks since the Category 4 storm made landfall, battering the state and surrounding southeast region, another major hurricane is charting a dangerous path toward Florida’s Gulf …

Ming Hu

Notre Dame researchers create new tool to analyze embodied carbon in more than 1 million buildings in Chicago

The built environment — which includes the construction and operation of buildings, highways, bridges and other infrastructure — is responsible for close to 40 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. While many building codes and benchmarks have …

Paola Crippa

Downwind states face disproportionate burden of air pollution

A recent Supreme Court decision to block a federal rule curbing interstate air pollution further complicates efforts to reduce emissions and adds to an already disproportionate burden on “downwind” states, according to researchers at the University of Notre Dame. “Toxic air pollution is …

Tracy Kijewski-Correa

Notre Dame researcher champions local leadership for life-saving disaster assessment

The earthquake that struck southwest Haiti in August 2021 killed thousands of people and left more than half a million seeking help. New research by a University of Notre Dame expert finds that the assessment of this disaster can serve as a model for evaluating future disasters and making …