Student Research News
Jul 06, 2020
SPIRAL Receives 2 Best Paper Awards at PETRA
Two papers from SPIRAL researchers received best paper awards at PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) conference.
Jul 06, 2020
PhD Student Rashida Nayeem finalist for Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics at The International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2020
EE PhD student Rashida Nayeem, advised by Prof. Dagmar Sternad, was a finalist for the Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation for her paper “Transient Behavior and Predictability in Manipulating Complex Objects.”
Jun 25, 2020
Bioengineers Develop Innovative Respiratory-Assist Device as Alternative to Ventilator
BioE alumnus Craig Smallwood, PhD’18, invented a respiratory-assist device as an alternative to a ventilator for low-resource environments. BioE Professor and Chair Lee Makowski, in collaboration with physicians at Korle Bu Hospital in Ghana, has made the first few of these devices available for use on patients suffering from respiratory distress.
Jun 11, 2020
Making Her Mark
Her research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She also had an internship at Sanofi and is part of the Experiential PhD program.
Jun 11, 2020
Distinctive Excellence: Our 2020 Rhodes Scholar
Kritika Singh, E’20, receives Rhodes Scholar, NIH OxCam Scholar, and Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award.
May 13, 2020
Phd Student Zhao Chen Awarded Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship
CEE PhD student Zhao Chen was awarded a 2020 Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship for his exceptional submittal for innovative research to investigate “Efficient Seismic Meta-modeling of Highly Nonlinear Structures with Scarce Data”.
Apr 27, 2020
Faust Received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research
Mechanical Engineering student Jessica Faust, PhD’20, was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research.
Apr 23, 2020
Ripley Receives 2020 Compass Award
ChE Katelyn Ripley, E’20, is the recipient of the 2020 Compass Award, which recognizes exemplary students from the senior class who, during their time on campus, have demonstrated a true dedication to a core set of values: leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern.