The Richard and Angela Wolohan Family Endowment for Engineering was established in 1991, by their children in honor of their 50^th wedding anniversary. Richard and Angela have seven children: three boys – Richard (’64), James (’73), Michael (’79) – and four girls — Kay, Patricia, Sharon, and Chris.

Funding from this endowment is used to purchase e-books in computer science, earth science, and energy to expand collections in those subject areas. By supporting special needs for research materials in a broad range of disciplines at Notre Dame, the Wolohan Family Endowment for Engineering allows the Libraries to respond with materials support for newly emerging and developing areas. Specifically, this fund supports special materials in computer science and water technologies, including water chemistry, hydrology, water supply, wastewater treatment, and water pollution control, as well as a significant number of critically needed society publications.

The Notre Dame College of Engineering is experiencing extraordinary growth in the numbers of faculty and students. Notre Dame researchers have engineered nanoparticles that show great promise for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM), an incurable cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow. These advancements rest on the research infrastructure that the Libraries continue to build because of the endowments like this.