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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 […]

Chemical Engineering

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.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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 […]

Chemical Engineering

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 […]

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 […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

May 13, 2014

An eye toward better treatment

Every two months, North­eastern bio­engi­neering grad­uate stu­dent David Walsh’s 91-​​year-​​old grand­mother goes to the doctor to receive a drug injec­tion into her eyes. She has wet age-​​related mac­ular degen­er­a­tion. There is no cure, only […]

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering

May 09, 2014

Student Wins GROW Grant

Bioengineering PhD student David Walsh won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant to perform ocular diagnostic research at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, […]

Bioengineering

May 07, 2014

Dirt & Crystalline Interfaces

Advised by MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu, PhD student Changjian Wang published an article in the EPL (Europhysics Letters) journal entitled “Shear Accommodation in Dirty Grain Boundaries”. The paper is based on […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering