Student Research News
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
Oct 18, 2017
Caroline Ghio '21 Wins Undergraduate Research Creative Endeavors Award
Caroline Ghio, a second year chemical engineering undergraduate student, was awarded in fall 2017 an Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavor (UGRCE) Award from Northeastern University. The Office of Undergraduate Research […]
Oct 11, 2017
Northeastern ChE to Represent at BMES
Today marks the start of Biomedical Engineering Society’s Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. ChemE students and faculty will participate in sixteen oral presentations and thirteen poster presentations over the next four days. With over 4,000 attendees […]
Oct 11, 2017
Lejeune Awarded Department of Energy SCGSR Research Fellowship
Chemical Engineering PhD candidate Brian Lejeune has been awarded DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship. Brian is advised by Cabot Professor Laura Lewis holding joint appointments in […]
Oct 05, 2017
Zhu's Research Featured on Inside Cover of Nanoscale
MIE Assistant Professor Hongli Zhu’s research on “Ultralight, highly thermally insulating and fire resistant aerogel by encapsulating cellulose nanofibers with two-dimensional MoS2” was featured on the inside cover of the Nanoscale journal.