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Nov 20, 2013

A sustainable breeding ground for collaboration

A com­plex struc­ture the size of a shoebox perched on a table’s edge in Curry Stu­dent Center Ball­room on Monday evening. The 3-​​D printed con­struc­tion resem­bled a series of tiny, […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Oct 17, 2013

Northeastern startup named finalist in global competition

On their first day of grad­uate school at North­eastern, Sean Kevlahan told Adam Hatch of his ambi­tious vision: Hatch would invent some­thing amazing, and Kevlahan would help him sell it. […]

Chemical Engineering

Sep 12, 2013

Student Wins Travel Grant

Bioengineering PhD student David Walsh won a prestigious travel grant to attend the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting to present his work on designing microfluidic systems to diagnose disease of […]

Bioengineering

Jul 26, 2013

Young scholars get a taste for science in the summer

Twenty-​​four high school stu­dents lis­tened intently as civil and envi­ron­mental engi­neering assis­tant pro­fessor Matthew Eck­elman pre­sented his research on mod­eling the energy inputs and out­puts of com­mer­cial prod­ucts and processes. At the […]

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 19, 2013

A green, inexpensive solution to groundwater contamination

Trichloroethylene—a degreasing agent fre­quently used for mil­i­tary and indus­trial applications—has seeped into ground­water around the world, with serious health con­se­quences. Sci­en­tists have thus far had little suc­cess in reducing the […]

Jul 11, 2013

ISACA Scholarship Winners

M.S. Information Sciences students Lujaen Basri and Nishant Gour won first and third place, respectively, at the 2013 H. Peet Raap Memorial Scholarship for their knowledge of the practice of Information Systems Auditing and […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 10, 2013

Students dial in on emergency communications

When the south tower of Manhattan’s World Trade Center col­lapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, emer­gency respon­ders out­side the building ordered the fire­fighters within to evac­uate. Many did not receive the message. […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 15, 2013

Congratulations Qi Wang

Qi Wang, a Bioengineering PhD student, won “Best Presentation” at the Annual AIChE meeting for his research in “The synthesis of selenium nanoparticles via a simple fast reaction and its […]

Bioengineering