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SUMMARY:SPARC (Seminars to Promote ALERT Research and Collaboration) Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:The ALERT (Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats) Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence at Northeastern University is launching a free online summer series titled\, SPARC (Seminars to Promote ALERT Research and Collaboration). SPARC will give attendees a preview of ALERT’s work with industry and government stakeholders. More details can be viewed on the ALERT webpage: http://www.northeastern.edu/alert/sparc \nThe sixth webinar of the SPARC series will be held on September 2nd from 11:30am – 12:00pm EDT. The presentation titled\, “Ion Mobility Spectrometer (IMS): One Stop Shopping For All Detection Needs” will be presented by Professor Jimmie Oxley of the University of Rhode Island and Dr. Miriam Fico of Smiths Detection. This webinar features the work and collaboration of Professor Jimmie Oxley and Dr. Miriam Fico as they discuss a solution suitable for the detection of both organic explosives and inorganic explosives. \nIf you are interested in attending this webinar\, please reach out to Tiffany Lam at t.lam@northeastern.edu for registration information. \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/sparc-seminars-to-promote-alert-research-and-collaboration-webinar-series-6/
ORGANIZER;CN="ALERT":MAILTO:alert-info@coe.neu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200911T120000
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SUMMARY:Bioengineering Works in Progress Student Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:This virtual seminar series is an opportunity for Bioengineering graduate students to present their work. Presenters are listed below: \nFrederick Sebastian from the Amini lab \nTitle: “Computational Approaches to Assess Irides in Glaucomatous Eyes” \nChia-Ming Wang from the Carrier lab \nTitle: “Development of a gut-microbiome mesofluidic device allowing facile visualization of intestinal mucosal barrier interface” \nPlease email Danielle at d.freshnock@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioengineering-works-in-progress-student-seminar-series/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200917T170000
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SUMMARY:Galante Engineering Business Program - Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:To start up or not? And if not\, what?\nJoin the Galante Engineering Business Program on Thursday\, September 17th from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM for a presentation by Dr. George Zavaliagkos\, current VP of Technology at Sense and former Speech Platform Senior Manager at Amazon. George earned his Ph.D. in Speech Recognition at Northeastern University and now works on using machine learning for energy disaggregation and home monitoring at Sense. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A. This is a virtual event and it will be held over Zoom. Please RSVP.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/galante-engineering-business-program-virtual-event/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200917T193000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
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SUMMARY:COE Clubs/Organizations Fair
DESCRIPTION:The College of Engineering Clubs/Organizations Fair takes place on Thursday\, September 17\, 2020\, from 6:30pm-7:30pm. Find out what student groups are all about & meet some of the student leaders involved! Learn more about the groups participating and how to join!  \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/coe-clubs-organizations-fair/
ORGANIZER;CN="Undergraduate Academic Advising":MAILTO:COEAdvising@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200918T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200918T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200909T150604Z
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SUMMARY:Bioengineering Works in Progress Student Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:This virtual seminar series is an opportunity for Bioengineering graduate students to present their research. The first presenter is Nathaniel Silvia from the Dai lab. Title: “Characterizing glioblastoma pathology by in vitro modeling”. The second presenter is Tengfei He from the Bajpayee lab. Title: “Multi-arm Avidin Nano-construct for Intra-cartilage Delivery of Small Molecule Drugs”. Please email Danielle at d.freshnock@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioengineering-works-in-progress-student-seminar-series-2/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T124500
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Citation Management Tools
DESCRIPTION:Start your fall 2020 research off on the right foot with Snell Library’s series of online workshops about citation management! Learn the basics of tools to help you manage citations for yourself or your research group. \nRegister here: bit.ly/citationmgmtworkshops
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/introduction-to-citation-management-tools/2020-09-22/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200922T173000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200911T143952Z
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SUMMARY:BioE Seminar: The Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur by Dr. Amar Sawhney
DESCRIPTION:Entering startups and entrepreneurship can be intimidating as a fresh graduate\, hear from accomplished Dr. Amar Sawhney about success in start-ups and biotech. Currently\, President and CEO of Instylla Inc.\, his resume includes Founder and CEO of Confluent Surgical (acquired by Covidien)\, Chairman of MarketRx (acquired by Cognizant)\, Technology Founder of Focal Inc. (acquired by Genzyme)\, Chairman of Augmenix\, and much more. Dr. Sawhney has founded nine companies and was among those named a Champion of Change by the Obama Administration. Learn from the stories and advice of a notable “Immigrant Innovator” on being a serial entrepreneur. \n\nJoin Zoom Meeting \n\n\nMeeting ID: 992 9731 3601 \n\n\nPasscode: 121417
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioe-seminar-the-journey-of-a-serial-entrepreneur-by-dr-amar-sawhney/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T120000
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SUMMARY:BioE Seminar Series Presents: Ryan Koppes
DESCRIPTION:Ryan Koppes\, Ph.D. \nAssistant Professor\, Department of Chemical Engineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Engineering Innervated Organ Systems” \n ABSTRACT:   \nMicrophysiological systems (MPS) hold the potential to provide benchtop models to investigate fundamental biology and disease while reducing the need for animal models. However\, many conventional in vitro models fail to fully capture the complex cell-cell interactions\, 3D microenvironments\, structural organization\, or vascularization of multicellular organ systems. A key criterion for replicating physiologically relevant architectures in a dish is the ability to compartmentalize discrete cell populations\, extracellular matrix compositions\, and/or mechanical properties\, without meaningfully restricting auto- and paracrine signaling. Traditionally\, compartmentalization within MPS has relied on the use of posts or microtunnels fabricated in silicon-based materials\, often requiring expensive lithographic capabilities. Further\, these methods are commonly limited to confining discrete tissues in the x-y plane. Towards overcoming these limitations\, we have developed a new ‘cut & assemble’ manufacturing technique. We have utilized these new tools to establish a number of MPS platforms to model the cardiovascular system. As part of this talk\, I will highlight the potential of this new technology and how we have applied it to model the heart and the adrenal medulla at the benchtop. Further\, through our work\, I will demonstrate how important the inclusion of neuron populations are for recapitulating organ function. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nDr. Ryan Koppes has been an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University since 2015\, where he has founded the Laboratory for Neuromodulation and Neuromuscular Repair (LNNR). Ryan received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy\, New York in 2013. His doctoral research with Dr. David Corr focused on soft musculoskeletal biomechanics and tissue engineering. In 2013\, Dr. Koppes joined the Bioelectronics Laboratory with Dr. Polina Anikeeva in Material Science and Engineering at MIT\, where he worked as a Translational Fellow on neural interface technology utilizing a multimaterial thermal drawing process and optogenetics. He was the recipient of the NIH R21 Trailblazer in 2017\, is a co-investigator on a 2019 AHA Innovative Project Award\, an NSF I-Corps\, and is a co-investigator on a 2020 NIH BRAIN Initiative R01 between Northeastern\, UCLA\, and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Koppes also enjoys teaching Chemical Engineering Experimental Design Lab II (Unit Operations II) for senior engineers\, as well as mentoring undergraduates in the laboratory. \nPlease email Elizabeth Chesley at e.chesley@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioe-seminar-series-presents-ryan-koppes/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200923T190000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200923T202210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T202210Z
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SUMMARY:GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL DAY: Cornell University
DESCRIPTION:The Graduate School of Engineering is happy to announce their participation in Cornell University’s Graduate and Professional School Day. During this virtual event\, students will have the opportunity to meet representatives and speak about their graduate programs of interest.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/graduate-and-professional-school-day-cornell-university/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200926
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200922T140219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200922T140220Z
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SUMMARY:6th Annual Energy Conference
DESCRIPTION:Northeastern University – Energy Systems Society is happy to announce it’s 6th Annual Energy Conference 2020. This year\, the conference will be completely virtual and will take place on 24th and 25th September 2020. \nIn today’s uncertain environment and challenged conditions\, the process of information and education exchange should not stop. We at the Energy Systems Society\, believe that every pandemic\, every calamity is an opportunity for innovation. With the ultimate aim of educational enrichment\, we bring you the 6th Annual Northeastern University Energy Conference 2020. \nThe Conference will consist of 2 Key-note Speakers\, 6-panel discussions comprising a Technology\, Business\, and Policy track\, one-panel discussion focused on Career Development\, and one completely virtual expo-area. \nVisit our website and register for the conference.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/6th-annual-energy-conference/
ORGANIZER;CN="Mechanical & Industrial Engineering":MAILTO:mie-web@coe.neu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200909T150656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T150656Z
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SUMMARY:Bioengineering Works in Progress Student Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:This virtual seminar series is an opportunity for Bioengineering graduate students to present their research. The first presenter is Fernando Ivich from the Niedre & Clark lab. Title: “Development of an Optical Instrument for Diffuse Sensing of Fluorescence-Based Circulating Sensors for Human in vivo Drug Monitoring”. The second presenter is Suzanne Stasiak from the Parameswaran lab. Title: “Elucidating force transfer pathways in smooth muscle cell ensembles”. Please email Danielle at d.freshnock@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioengineering-works-in-progress-student-seminar-series-3/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200925T201242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201242Z
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar: "Engineering the Production of Medicinal Natural Products from Plant Cell Cultures"
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:\n \nCarolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons\, Ph.D. \nAssociate Professor\, Chemical Engineering Department; Chemistry & Chemical Biology Department\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Engineering the Production of Medicinal Natural Products from Plant Cell Cultures” \nAbstract: \nMany plant-derived pharmaceuticals are currently supplied by extracting the plant material.  Due to the slow growth rates or low product concentrations in plants\, finding an alternative route for supplying these critical drugs is necessary.  The overall vision of this research is to enhance the production of critical plant-derived pharmaceutical compounds through genetically engineered plant cell cultures\, specifically using the production of terpenoid indole alkaloids (TIAs) from cultures of Catharanthus roseus as a model system.  The C. roseus plant produces several highly valued pharmaceuticals\, including the anti-cancer drugs vincristine and vinblastine.  The high cost and need for these pharmaceuticals motivate our research to better understand their biosynthesis and ultimately overproduce these compounds using C. roseus cultures.  In this talk\, I will present our research in exploring how TIA biosynthesis is regulated and how this knowledge leads to developing synthetic biology strategies for manipulating TIA production. \nBiography: \nCarolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern University.  She earned her B.S. from the University of Kansas and her Ph.D. from Cornell University\, both in Chemical Engineering.  As an undergraduate\, she modeled reaction networks with Prof. Bala Subramaniam and investigated oil and gas recovery strategies at ARCO Oil and Gas. Growing up in the midst of wheat fields in Kansas\, she was always intrigued by plants and specifically medicines from plants.  As a doctoral student\, she investigated bioprocess strategies for increasing the production of medicines from plant cell cultures with Prof. Michael L. Shuler. \nHer current research area is in plant metabolic engineering and plant synthetic biology.  Her team of graduate and undergraduate students focus on understanding how plants regulate the production of specialized metabolites and on developing and applying tools for engineering the production of pharmaceutical compounds and biofuels from plant tissue cultures and microalgae cultures.  Carolyn seeks to engage majors across disciplines in understanding the fundamentals underlying life in living organisms and translating this understanding to developing solutions to society’s grand challenges.  She contributed to the revision of the widely used textbook for bioprocess engineering (Bioprocess Engineering:  Basic Concepts by M.L. Shuler\, F. Kargi\, and M. DeLisa).  For her teaching and research mentoring\, she was awarded the Martin Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award and the University Excellence in Teaching Award at Northeastern University. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-engineering-the-production-of-medicinal-natural-products-from-plant-cell-cultures/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200909T173211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T173211Z
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SUMMARY:Effectively Navigating Challenging Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Would you like to gain respect\, achieve your goals\, and improve your professional relationships? What if this were possible by adjusting the way you communicate?   \nClick here to register for this virtual workshop! \nChallenging conversations are high-risk\, sometimes emotional discussions between individuals with differing opinions. This workshop will help graduate students recognize when challenging conversations are happening\, or need to happen\, and prepare them with strategies to navigate them productively. This includes being able to give both positive and negative feedback as well as receive it from colleagues and advisors\, in order to effectively meet personal\, academic\, and professional goals.  \nThis interactive workshop\, facilitated by COE CommLab Fellows\, will offer background on navigating challenging conversations\, and provide time for participants to work together in smaller groups to analyze\, assess\, process\, and practice frequently encountered scenarios. There will also be time for participants to discuss their own challenging conversations and make new strategies.   \nThis workshop is designed and facilitated by the COE CommLab and co-sponsored by the Office of the Graduate Obudsperson\, Employer Engagement and Career Design\, and the PhD Network.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/effectively-navigating-challenging-conversations/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200918T151310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T151310Z
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SUMMARY:BioE Seminar Series Presents: Tara Deans
DESCRIPTION:Tara Deans\, Ph.D. \nAssistant Professor\, Department of Biomedical Engineering\, University of Utah\, Salt Lake City\, Utah  \n“Using synthetic biology to engineer therapeutic devices” \nABSTRACT:   \nSynthetic biology has transformed how cells can be reprogrammed\, providing a means to reliably and predictably control cell behavior with the assembly of genetic parts into more complex gene circuits. Using these approaches\, we are programming stem cells with novel genetic tools to control genes and pathways that result in changes in stem cell fate decisions\, in addition to reprogramming terminally differentiated cells to function as unique therapeutic diagnostic and delivery vehicles. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nDr. Tara Deans received her PhD from Boston University in Biomedical Engineering. Following her postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University\, she became an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah. Currently\, Dr. Deans runs an applied mammalian synthetic biology laboratory where her lab focuses on building novel genetic tools to study the mechanisms of stem cell differentiation for the purpose of directing cell fate decisions. Recently\, Dr. Deans received four prestigious awards to support this area of research: the NSF CAREER Award\, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award\, the NIH Trailblazer Award\, and an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. In addition to her research\, Dr. Deans was named a STEM Ambassador in the STEM Ambassador Program (STEMAP) at the University of Utah to engage underrepresented groups in STEM fields.  \nPlease email Elizabeth Chesley at e.chesley@northeastern.edu for the seminar link.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioe-seminar-series-presents-tara-deans/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200925T201515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T201515Z
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar: "Engineering Innervated Organ Systems"
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:   \nRyan Koppes\, Ph.D. \nAssistant Professor\, Department of Chemical Engineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Engineering Innervated Organ Systems” \nAbstract:   \nMicrophysiological systems (MPS) hold the potential to provide benchtop models to investigate fundamental biology and disease while reducing the need for animal models. However\, many conventional in vitro models fail to fully capture the complex cell-cell interactions\, 3D microenvironments\, structural organization\, or vascularization of multicellular organ systems. A key criterion for replicating physiologically relevant architectures in a dish is the ability to compartmentalize discrete cell populations\, extracellular matrix compositions\, and/or mechanical properties\, without meaningfully restricting auto- and paracrine signaling. Traditionally\, compartmentalization within MPS has relied on the use of posts or microtunnels fabricated in silicon-based materials\, often requiring expensive lithographic capabilities. Further\, these methods are commonly limited to confining discrete tissues in the x-y plane. Towards overcoming these limitations\, we have developed a new ‘cut & assemble’ manufacturing technique. We have utilized these new tools to establish a number of MPS platforms to model the cardiovascular system. As part of this talk\, I will highlight the potential of this new technology and how we have applied it to model the heart and the adrenal medulla at the benchtop. Further\, through our work\, I will demonstrate how important the inclusion of neuron populations are for recapitulating organ function. \nBiography: \nDr. Ryan Koppes has been an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University since 2015\, where he has founded the Laboratory for Neuromodulation and Neuromuscular Repair (LNNR). Ryan received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy\, New York in 2013. His doctoral research with Dr. David Corr focused on soft musculoskeletal biomechanics and tissue engineering. In 2013\, Dr. Koppes joined the Bioelectronics Laboratory with Dr. Polina Anikeeva in Material Science and Engineering at MIT\, where he worked as a Translational Fellow on neural interface technology utilizing a multimaterial thermal drawing process and optogenetics. He was the recipient of the NIH R21 Trailblazer in 2017\, is a co-investigator on a 2019 AHA Innovative Project Award\, an NSF I-Corps\, and is a co-investigator on a 2020 NIH BRAIN Initiative R01 between Northeastern\, UCLA\, and Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Koppes also enjoys teaching Chemical Engineering Experimental Design Lab II (Unit Operations II) for senior engineers\, as well as mentoring undergraduates in the laboratory. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-engineering-innervated-organ-systems/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200930T190000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200928T180610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T180610Z
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SUMMARY:Cornell University Graduate and Professional School Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join the Graduate Admissions team at the Cornell Graduate Professional School Day. They will be available to answer your admissions and program questions. This event will take place on September 30\, 2020 from 4pm-7pm virtually.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/cornell-university-graduate-and-professional-school-fair/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200923T140841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200923T140841Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Heads Up Lunchtime Funtime
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Student Services is hosting a Heads Up Virtual “lunchtime funtime” event for Master’s students to get to know each other and play an exciting competition against each other on October 1st\, 12-1pm EST!  Heads Up is a game where one student in a group will have to guess 10 words within a category with the help of their group members.  You will need to register via the Zoom link we will send out shortly to students to attend the event.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/virtual-heads-up-lunchtime-funtime/
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate School of Engineering":MAILTO:coe-gradadmissions@northeastern.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201002T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201002T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200916T193727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200916T193727Z
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SUMMARY:Bioengineering Works in Progress Student Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:This virtual seminar series is an opportunity for Bioengineering graduate students to present their research. The first presenter is Shira Tsour from the Slavov lab. Title: “Quantifying rates of mistranslation”. The second presenter is Richard Huffman from the Slavov lab. Title: “Increased Sensitivity\, Reliability\, and Consistency of Single-Cell Proteomics Measurements via Targeted LC-MS/MS Methods”. Please email Danielle at d.freshnock@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioengineering-works-in-progress-student-seminar-series-4/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T150000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200928T180703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T180703Z
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SUMMARY:Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Virtual Fall Career Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join the Graduate Admissions team at the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology Virtual Fall Career Fair. They will be available to answer your admissions and program questions. This event will take place on October 5 from 10:00-3:00pm virtually.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/rose-hulman-institute-of-technology-virtual-fall-career-fair/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T150000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200928T180752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T180752Z
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SUMMARY:Big Ten + Graduate School Expo
DESCRIPTION:Join the Graduate Admissions team at the Big Ten + Graduate School Expo hosted by Purdue University. They will be available to answer your admissions and program questions. This event will take place on October 5th virtually.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/big-ten-graduate-school-expo-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201005T124500
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UID:22031-1601899200-1601901900@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Getting Started with EndNote for Windows
DESCRIPTION:Start your fall 2020 research off on the right foot with Snell Library’s series of online workshops about citation management! In this session\, learn how to use EndNote for Windows to help you manage citations for yourself or your research group. \nRegister here: bit.ly/citationmgmtworkshops
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/getting-started-with-endnote-for-windows/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T120000
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SUMMARY:ECE PhD Dissertation Defense: Mahsa Bayati
DESCRIPTION:PhD Defense: Efficient Data Access with Heterogeneous Computing using GPUs and Direct Non-volatile Storage. \nMahsa Bayati \nLocation: Zoom Link \nAbstract: The amount of data being collected that requires analysis is growing at an exponential rate. Along with this growth comes an increasing need for storage and computation. Researchers address these needs by (I) deploying distributed bigdata platforms equipped with cutting-edge storage devices\, and (II) building heterogeneous clusters with Central Processing Units (CPUs) and computational accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The high performance of these mainstream systems is achieved by efficiently accessing data and computation resources and scheduling parallel and distributed tasks. \nThe performance of each job depends on the characteristics of both the application and the underlying storage and computational environments. However\, it is not a trivia to maintain efficiency and provide high performance in these mainstream systems. First\, in bigdata platforms like Spark and Hadoop\, full utilization of Solid State Devices (SSDs)\, i.e.\, Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) and Key-Value (KV) SSDs is challenging. Data communication between Spark tasks\, levels of parallelism\, and resource co-location significantly affects achieving high I/O throughput. Second\, in heterogeneous systems\, one of the main bottlenecks of GPU computation is the data transfer bandwidth to GPUs in I/O intensive applications. The traditional GPU approach gets data from host memory\, which can limit data throughput and processing and thus degrade end-to-end performance. In this work\, we initially explore different attributes to exploit the full benefits of various SSDs in bigdata platforms. We then focus on mitigating the data transfer bottleneck in a heterogeneous bigdata framework. \nWe build a heterogeneous framework that facilitates GPU direct access to storage. Our framework aims to minimize the data transfer delay\, thus enhancing the performance of distributed and parallel tasks to obtain the full benefits of compute and storage resources. Our heterogeneous cluster is supplied with CPUs and GPUs as computing resources and non-volatile flash-based drives as storage resources. We also deploy the Spark bigdata platform to execute large workloads over our cluster. We then adopt a novel technique (e.g.\, Peer-to-Peer Direct Memory Access) to connect GPUs to non-volatile storage directly. Experimental results reveal that our heterogeneous Spark platform successfully bypasses the host memory and enables GPUs to communicate directly to the NVMe drive\, thus achieving higher data transfer throughput. The contributions of the dissertation are: (I) Realizing that bigdata processing applications need to consider framework features and application characteristics to fully utilize the high bandwidth of modern SSDs\, where compute and storage locality is essential to optimize the cost and performance. (II) Deploying our novel heterogeneous framework supporting GPU direct storage access improves data communication time around 35%- 50% and end-to-end performance by 30%.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/ece-phd-dissertation-defense-mahsa-bayati/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201006T190000
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SUMMARY:Galante Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Join the Galante Engineering Business Program for the first virtual info session of the semester on Tuesday\, October 6th from 6:00pm – 7:00pm via Zoom. During this meeting\, you will listen to a short presentation and also hear from a team of panelists that is made up of current students in the program. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and learn more about the various benefits of the program. Please RSVP by clicking this Link.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/galante-info-session-2/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201008
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CREATED:20200928T180847Z
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UID:22436-1602028800-1602115199@coe.northeastern.edu
SUMMARY:Olin College Fall Career Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join the Graduate Admissions team at the Olin College Fall Career Fair. They will be available to answer your admissions and program questions. This event will take place on October 7\, 2020\, virtually.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/olin-college-fall-career-fair/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T123000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20201005T151209Z
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: “Engineering the intestinal and retinal microenvironments”
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:\n \nRebecca Carrier\, Ph.D. \nProfessor & Associate Chair of Research\, Department of Chemical Engineering \nAffiliated Faculty\, Bioengineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston\, MA \n“Engineering the intestinal and retinal microenvironments” \nAbstract: The Advanced Drug Delivery Lab conducts research in regenerative medicine\, with a focus on intestinal and retinal tissue engineering\, and in oral drug delivery\, with a focus on enabling effective oral delivery of therapeutics. In the area of enabling effective oral drug delivery\, we have developed an experimental and theoretical framework to predict the impact of ingested lipids\, in food or drug delivery systems\, on oral drug absorption. This work could have a significant impact on societal health by providing practical\, relevant guidance for the oral dosing of drugs and nutritive supplements. As part of our efforts in enabling effective oral treatments\, we have explored the barrier properties of the gastrointestinal mucus barrier\, and revealed changes in the mucus barrier certain disease states. The lab is now exploring how to alter mucus barrier properties to potentially prevent certain diseases\, including necrotizing enterocolitis. In the area of intestinal tissue engineering\, we are developing human in vitro models of the microbiome-gut-immune axis for understanding the impact of what we ingest and the microbiome on human health. We are also developing biomaterial cell carriers for cell-therapy based retinal regeneration strategies\, with a focus on engineering cues into biomaterial carriers that will promote the survival and integration of implanted cells. \nBiosketch: Rebecca Carrier is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern. She earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1995\, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000\, where she worked as a pioneer in cardiac muscle tissue engineering. After completing her graduate studies\, Rebecca worked at Pfizer\, Inc.\, as a Senior Research Scientist in oral controlled release drug delivery. She joined Northeastern in 2003\, and the overall theme of her research interests is the interaction between biological systems and materials\, with specific applications in drug delivery and regenerative medicine. She has worked with multiple industrial partners including Pfizer\, Merck\, and Boehringer Ingelheim\, and has received honors including the NSF CAREER award\, NU “Outstanding Teacher (2011)\,” “Faculty Fellow (2014)\,” and Soren Buus Outstanding Research (2017) Awards for excellence in teaching and research leadership. She was also invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering (2016) and Frontiers of Engineering Education (2013) Symposia\, served as the Member-At-Large for the Society for Biomaterials from 2018-2019\, and was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2019. \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-engineering-the-intestinal-and-retinal-microenvironments/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20200918T175635Z
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SUMMARY:BioE Seminar Series Presents: Wayne Mitzner
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Mitzner\, Ph.D. \nProfessor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Environmental Health & Engineering\, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health\, Baltimore Maryland  \n“New Insights into Lung Anatomy” \nABSTRACT:   \nWe have utilized an optical clearing method to allow visualization of a heretofore undescribed subpleural acinar structural organization in the mammalian lung.  The clearing method enables visualization of the lung structure 40-50 alveoli deep below the visceral pleura in intact inflated lungs.  In addition to confirming previous observations that the immediate subpleural alveoli are uniform in appearance\, we document for the first time that the subpleural lung parenchyma is much more uniformly organized than the internal parenchyma.  Specifically\, below the surface layer of alveoli\, there is a striking parallel arrangement of alveolar ducts that all run perpendicular to the visceral pleural surface.  A three dimensional visualization of alveolar ducts allowed for a calculation of the average inner to outer duct diameter ratio of 0.53 in these subpleural ducts. This unique\, self-organizing parallel duct structure likely impacts both elastic recoil and the transmission of tethering forces in healthy and diseased lungs. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nWayne Mitzner is Professor and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Environmental Health & Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.  Dr. Mitzner’s research interests are focused on the structural basis of physiologic and pathologic phenotypes in the lung.  He also has a keen interest in developing methods to assess and quantify pulmonary function in preclinical models\, and has chaired several minisymposia and postgraduate courses in this area.  These functional studies are directed toward investigating the best ways to evaluate pathologic processes after acute and long-term exogenous insults to the lung.  His work has had continuous funding from the NIH for the past 30 years and is supported by over 300 research publications.  \nPlease email Elizabeth Chesley at e.chesley@northeastern.edu for the seminar link.  
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioe-seminar-series-presents-wayne-mitzner/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201007T130000
DTSTAMP:20260517T212551
CREATED:20201005T151425Z
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SUMMARY:ChE Seminar Series Presents: “Engineering Bacteria to Solve Problems in Renewable Chemical Production and Human Health”
DESCRIPTION:ChE Seminar Series Presents:\n \nBenjamin M. Woolston\, PhD \nAssistant Professor\, Department of Chemical Engineering\, Northeastern University\, Boston \, MA \n“Engineering Bacteria to Solve Problems in Renewable Chemical Production and Human Health” \nAbstract: The synthetic biology revolution has given us the ability to genetically reprogram microbes to serve a wide variety of purposes – from miniscule chemical factories that orchestrate exquisitely selective enzymatic pathways to produce fuels\, pharmaceuticals and polymers from simple raw materials – to biological computers that can sense their chemical environment and implement complex decision-making algorithms. The overall goal of the Woolston lab is to harness this potential for applications in renewable energy production and the human gut microbiota. In this talk\, I will present an overview of the two major current thrusts of the lab: In the first\, we are engineering anaerobic bacteria for the conversion of renewable single-carbon feedstocks to biofuels\, taking advantage of a number of economic and ethical benefits of using these substrates compared to 1st and 2nd generation biofuel efforts. In the second\, we are developing engineered microbes that can sense and correct an overabundance of the microbially derived metabolite hydrogen sulfide in the human gut; a toxic\, volatile molecule implicated in the onset of IBD and colorectal cancer. As well as the exciting applied potential of the resultant technology\, these efforts will also provide us with model systems with which to answer broader fundamental questions about microbial metabolism. \nBiography: Dr. Woolston joined the NEU Chemical Engineering department as an Assistant Professor in January 2020. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow\, Dr. Woolston received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2017 from MIT under the guidance of Prof. Greg Stephanopoulos\, where his research focused on the development of genetic tools to enable metabolic engineering in anaerobic CO2-fixing microbes\, and the establishment of a methanol utilization pathway in the model organism Escherichia coli. While at MIT\, he was an inaugural Fellow of the Chemical Engineering Communication Lab\, where he provided peer tutoring and department-wide workshops to assist students and post-docs with aspects of scientific communication. His Post-doctoral work was conducted in the laboratory of Prof. Emily Balskus in the Chemistry & Chemical Biology department at Harvard University\, where he studied microbial metabolic pathways and enzymes that contribute to the stability of health-associated Lactobacilli in the human vaginal microbiota. At Northeastern\, his research program combines approaches from his previous research training in metabolic engineering\, synthetic biology\, biochemistry and microbiology to engineer microbes for biofuel & biochemical production\, and as diagnostics and therapeutics in the Human gut microbiota. His lab team currently consists of three graduate students and two undergraduates. Since joining NEU\, Dr. Woolston has taught the Biochemical Engineering senior elective (CHME 5630) and the graduate course in Kinetics & Reactor Design (CHME 7340). \nPlease email Alyssa Ramsey at a.ramsey@northeastern.edu for the link to the seminar.
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/che-seminar-series-presents-engineering-bacteria-to-solve-problems-in-renewable-chemical-production-and-human-health/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201008T124500
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CREATED:20200828T214826Z
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SUMMARY:Getting Started with RefWorks
DESCRIPTION:Start your fall 2020 research off on the right foot with Snell Library’s series of online workshops about citation management! In this session\, learn how to use RefWorks to help you manage citations for yourself or your research group. \nRegister here: bit.ly/citationmgmtworkshops
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/getting-started-with-refworks/2020-10-08/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201008T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201008T130000
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SUMMARY:BioE Seminar Series Presents: Aileen Huang-Saad
DESCRIPTION:Aileen Huang-Saad\, Ph.D.\, MBA \nAssociate Professor\, Biomedical Engineering\, Entrepreneurship\, and Engineering Education\, University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor MI  \n“Closing the Gap Between Theory and Practice: Rethinking Engineering Education in Real-Time” \nABSTRACT:   \nDespite 20 years of focus on organizational change and effective educational best practices in STEM higher education\, significant research findings have had minimal influences on practice.  In 2016\, the University of Michigan BME Department sought to disrupt engineering education. Informed by organizational change theory\, we asked: 1) Is there potential for change; 2) what strategies facilitate change\, and 3) how can these strategies be implemented? As a result\, we developed an Instructional Design Sequence\, a new approach to instruction in which students\, post-docs\, and faculty create short Modules that use evidence-based teaching practices to expose BME students to BME professional practice.  This talk describes how the Sequence was conceived of and demonstrates how organizational theory\, entrepreneurship\, and design can be used to inform education practice. The resultant Sequence has the potential to be a transferrable model for transforming engineering education\, offering a new mechanism for integrating career-relevant curriculum into undergraduate curriculum in real-time\, while training future educators in instructional evidence-based practices. \nBIOGRAPHY: \nDr. Huang-Saad is faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Education at the University of Michigan. Dr. Huang-Saad has a thirteen-year history of bringing about organizational change in higher education\, leveraging evidence-based practices. She created the U-M BME graduate design program\, co-founded the U-M College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship\, launched the U-M National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node\, and developed the U-M BME Instructional Incubator. She is a canonical instructor for both the NSF and National Institute of Health (NIH) I-Corps Programs. Dr. Huang-Saad has received numerous awards for her teaching and student advising\, including the 1938E College of Engineering Award\, the Thomas M. Sawyer\, Jr. Teaching Award\, the U-M ASEE Outstanding Professor Award\, the International Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award\, and the College of Engineering Outstanding Student Advisor Award.  \nDr. Huang-Saad’s current research areas are entrepreneurship\, innovation\, and transforming higher education.  She is funded by the NSF to explore the influence of the microenvironment of entrepreneurship education on minoritized populations\, entrepreneurial ecosystems\, and fostering graduate student professional development.   \nPrior to joining the University of Michigan faculty\, Dr. Huang-Saad worked in industry gaining experience in new venture biotech\, the defense industry\, and medical device testing.  She has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania\, a Doctor of Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine\, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. \nIf interested in attending\, please email Elizabeth Chesley at e.chesley@northeastern.edu \n 
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/bioe-seminar-series-presents-aileen-huang-saad/
ORGANIZER;CN="Bioengineering":MAILTO:bioe@northeastern.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201009T124500
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CREATED:20200828T214920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200828T214920Z
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SUMMARY:Getting Started with EndNote for Mac
DESCRIPTION:Start your fall 2020 research off on the right foot with Snell Library’s series of online workshops about citation management! In this session\, learn how to use EndNote for Mac to help you manage citations for yourself or your research group. \nRegister here: bit.ly/citationmgmtworkshops
URL:https://coe.northeastern.edu/event/getting-started-with-endnote-for-mac/2020-10-09/
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