Student Research News
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Apr 12, 2019
Michael Tormey Wins 2019 Northeastern President’s Award
As one of 10 students with the highest GPA, Michael Tormey received Northeastern’s President’s Award.
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Apr 08, 2019
A New Model Can Predict the Shape of a Squeezed Nanocrystal When Blanketed Under Graphene
MIE PhD student Scott Julien, who works in Professor Kai-Tak Wan’s Micro/Nano Bio-Mechanical Characterization Lab, was featured in the Science Times article “A New Model Can Predict the Shape of a Squeezed Nanocrystal When Blanketed Under Graphene”.
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Apr 05, 2019
Congratulations RISE:2019 Winners
Congratulations to our engineering students who won awards at the RISE:2019 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo!
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Apr 01, 2019
Love of Science Leads to Prestigious Award
Minhal Ahmed, a fifth-year bioengineering student, was named the winner of the Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award for 2019, one of the highest honors a senior can receive.
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Mar 27, 2019
2019 AAAS Student E-Poster Competition Experience
Written by Ada Vernet-Crua, a first-year PhD student. About Ada Vernet-Crua Ada is working in the Nanomedicine lab investigating novel materials for biomedical applications – such as antibacterial and anticancer – utilizing different eco-friendly and cost-effective approaches to produce metallic nanoparticles. Before starting at Northeastern, Ada completed her BS in Chemistry at Rovira I Virgili […]
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Mar 25, 2019
Eggermont receives MSCA Seal of Excellence Award
Dr. Loek Eggermont, a postdoctoral fellow in the Bencherif lab, has received the prestigious European Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence Award for his work on cryogels to re-educate immune cells.
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Mar 21, 2019
Auguste Lab Published in Science Advances
Chemical Engineering Professor Debra Auguste’s research paper, Dual complementary liposomes inhibit triple-negative breast tumor progression and metastasis, was recently published in Sciences Advances journal.
Mar 14, 2019
PhD Student Wins Honorable Paper Award in 2019 APS/URSI
ECE PhD student Mohammad Mahdi Salary from Professor Hossein Mosallaei’s group receives Honorable Student Paper Award in the 2019 IEEE AP-S/URSI Conference, held in Atlanta, GA. The work is on full-duplex NIR communications.