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Engineering in ice: Martin Soros on the building of St. Olaf’s Chapel

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. …

Tracy Kijewski-Correa

Tracy Kijewski-Correa appointed the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Structural Engineering and Hazard Resilience

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 …

Nighttime city view with many lit buildings. Two industrial chimneys, one black and one white, glow red at their tops while releasing thick white smoke into the dark, cloudy sky.

New tool tracks cross-border pollution, revealing unequal distribution of risk, responsibility

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 …

Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a woman with long, dark brown hair and glasses, stands in front of a colorful map.

Tracy Kijewski-Correa, President-Elect, American Association for Wind Engineering

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 …

The Vaisala FD70 sensor, a piece of equipment used by researchers in northern Alaska, is decorated with white string lights, red beaded garland, and red Christmas ornaments.

Shedding Light on Ice Fog in the Darkness of Polar Night

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 …