Student Research News
Jul 31, 2014
Family Health Scare Leads to Healthcare Systems Engineering
Kendall Sanderson, BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2013—To the industrial engineering major, one of the most fascinating problems to solve is the efficient routing of delivery trucks around the country. When Sanderson learned he could apply this skill to the healthcare industry to prevent mistakes like those made with his mother, he knew he’d found […]
Jul 23, 2014
Inside the NASA Langley Research Center
ME student Craig Schmidt, Jr. explains the awesome experiences he is having participating in a NASA internship.
Jul 11, 2014
Congratulations Caroline Webb
Caroline Webb, a student of Chemical Engineering, is the recipient of a 2014 Provost Undergraduate Research Award in the amount of $1,000. Recipients of this award are funded by the Provost's Office and are overseen by full-time Northeastern faculty members. Students are also encouraged to present the results of their research at campus-wide events such as RISE, which […]
Jun 11, 2014
#howmatters: ingredients for cancer drug delivery
Last week, Chobani Yogurt came out with a new ad campaign intended to promote its “all-natural” ingredients list. A series of witty messages revealed themselves each time a hungry yogurt eater popped the lid on one of their Chobani100 yogurt cups. Example: “Nature got us to 100 calories, not scientists. #howmatters.” Not surprisingly, scientists took issue with […]
Jun 03, 2014
Engineering ideas to help people in need
The newly formed student group Enabling Engineering uses engineering principles to design and build projects to help individuals with disabilities.
May 23, 2014
Dissertation Fellowship Winner
Chemical Engineering PhD student Noreen Rizvi was awarded an American Association of University Women’s American Dissertation Fellowship. Rizvi is part of Northeastern Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons' research group. She will be supported by the AAUW program as she completes her dissertation, which is based on Metabolic Engineering. Other well-known recipients of American Fellowships in the past include Susan […]
May 21, 2014
Three students earn NSF graduate research fellowships
Three Northeastern University doctoral students—Allison Matzelle, Jennifer Morales, and Tanya Rogers—have been selected as 2014 recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. They are among 2,000 awardees from a pool of more than 14,000 applicants to the program, which aims to help ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in […]
May 20, 2014
Periodic Buckling Pattern
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering faculty members’s Jim Papadopoulos, Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi, Ashkan Vaziri, and PhD students Babak Haghpanah & Davood Mousanezhad were featured on the cover of Proceedings of Royal Society A for “Buckling of regular, chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs under a general macroscopic stress state”. Proceedings A has published many influential articles on Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences […]