News
May 12, 2026
The Family Blueprint: Three Siblings’ Journeys with Mechanical Engineering
Carly, E’18, Kevin, E’21, and Kayla Parlato, E’26, have all graduated from Northeastern with mechanical engineering degrees. Inspired by their engineering father, they were all drawn to the same discipline, yet carved their own paths using the opportunities and resources Northeastern provided.
May 12, 2026
Climate and Wildfires Drive Persistent U.S. Formaldehyde Levels
CEE Assistant Professor Shang Liu’s research on “Surface Atmospheric Formaldehyde Trends in the U.S. Driven by Temperature-Dependent Biogenic Precursor Emissions and Influenced by Wildfires” was published in ACS ES&T Air.
May 11, 2026
Closing the Loop: AI-Driven Predictive Modeling for Printed Electronics
ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji will present an end-to-end framework for AI-driven predictive modeling and closed-loop control in printed electronics during a NextFlex webinar on May 28.
May 07, 2026
Paying It Forward: Four Northeastern Engineers on Service, Purpose, and Giving Back
Four Northeastern engineering students — Clare Chi, Hebat Elkacemi, Jimmy Cheung, and Mia Filardi—were selected this year as Patrick P. Lee Scholarship recipients, chosen not for accolades alone but for their commitment to bringing others along with them. From teaching robotics to Boston schoolchildren to leading civic engagement programs and organizing voter registration drives, each has found a distinct way to turn their education outward. Their stories reflect a simple but demanding idea: that what you receive, you owe to others.
May 07, 2026
Summer 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
May 06, 2026
New Project Combines Biology, Music, and Math to Display Limb Regeneration
A project named “Morphogenesis,” led by Garret Compston and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, uses Alan Turing’s pattern with musical representation to portray the biological process behind how individual cells, tissues and organs develop their specific shapes and structures when the embryo is still developing.
May 05, 2026
Closas to Serve as General Co-Chair at NAVICON 2026
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas will serve as the general co-chair of the organizing committee for the inaugural IEEE Navigation Conference (NAVICON 2026), which will be held in Munich, Germany, from December 9 to 11, 2026.
May 05, 2026
Minkara Named 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was one of seventeen named a 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for her work in decoding the molecular logic of innate immune recognition.