Student Research News
Nov 02, 2017
Scholarship Supports Global Co-op Opportunities
Taylor Wilde, BS Chemical Engineering 2019, was the recipient of a Fung Scholarship, which allowed him to work on co-op at a research lab at École Normale Supérieure, a university […]
Oct 27, 2017
A New Way to Fight ‘Superbugs’
Ben Geilich, PhD, Chemical Engineering, 2016, is using nanoparticles to improve an antibiotics ability to treat infections. Northeastern doctoral graduate Ben Geilich cheerfully admits that he loves studying bacteria—tiny, resourceful […]
Oct 25, 2017
Northeastern Researcher Creates Innovative Surgical Glue
ChE Assistant Professor Nasim Annabi was featured in The Huntington News article “Northeastern researcher creates innovative surgical glue”.
Oct 23, 2017
A New Way to Fight ‘Superbugs’
ChE PhD student Ben Geilich is using nanoparticles to improve an antibiotics ability to treat infections. Source: Northeastern Magazine Northeastern doctoral graduate Ben Geilich cheerfully admits that he loves studying […]
Oct 20, 2017
Human-Robot Friendship
Murphy Wonsick, PhD’20—Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to complete dangerous tasks in space. In fact, she’s working on one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots to exist—Northeastern’s NASA robot Valkyrie—under the direction of Taskin Padir, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern.
Oct 20, 2017
Human-Robot Friendship
Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to […]
Oct 18, 2017
Easy ‘Friending’ Startup
Computer Engineering students Jay Shome and Andrew Smith developed the app FriendsUp to share and connect to multiple social accounts at once.
Oct 18, 2017
ChE Medical Devices Project Selected as Chunhui Cup Finalist
ChE Research Assistant Professor Linlin Sun, Dept. Chair & Professor Tom Webster, and ChE student Cungu Cao are part of a six-person interdisciplinary team developing the Wearable Nano-Piezoelectric Sensors for Neck Movement and Detection Device that has been selected as finalists for the 12th Annual Chunhuibei (Chunhui) Cup Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition