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Dec 02, 2024
Alumnus-Founded NapSpin Aims to Reshape Restaurant Work
After an inspirational conversation with his brother, Mike Foley, E’17, mechanical engineering, developed and launched the startup NapSpin, which produces machines that automate rolling silverware into napkins. With added support from Northeastern’s GAP fund, Foley hopes to further develop and expand NapSpin to and beyond restaurants nationwide.
Nov 27, 2024
Reprogrammed Aortic Pig Valves Create New Options for Human Transplants
BioE Professor Ning Wang coauthored “Engineering Aortic Valves via Transdifferentiating Fibroblasts Into Valvular Endothelial Cells Without Using Viruses or iPS Cells,” published in Bioactive Materials. The research team created heart valve cells for rats through reprogrammed human skin cells to support compatibility with aortic valves from pigs.
Nov 27, 2024
Rapidly Screening for Environmental Toxins
Bouvé/CEE Assistant Professor Julia Varshavsky’s research on “Analyzing High-Throughput Assay Data To Advance the Rapid Screening of Environmental Chemicals for Human Reproductive Toxicity” was published in Reproductive Toxicology.
Nov 27, 2024
Using Exoskeletons To Increase Mobility
Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd is leading a team of graduate students, including Fatima Tourk, PhD’27, mechanical engineering, to create a battery-powered exoskeleton that is intended to assist people with mobility issues and enable complex movements without causing discomfort.
Nov 26, 2024
Propelling Efforts To Limit Worldwide Plastic Pollution
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins is part of a delegation involved in what could be the final round in the negotiation process for an international plastic pollution treaty that would limit plastic pollution worldwide. The delegation is led by Maria Ivanova, CSSH professor and director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern.
Nov 26, 2024
Patent for Optimizing Content Delivery Networks
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for “System and method for joint dynamic forwarding and caching in content distribution networks.”
Nov 26, 2024
Optimizing Wireless Networks With Digital Twins
ECE Principal Research Scientist Pedram Johari and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received the Best Paper Award for “TwiNet: Connecting Real World Networks to Their Digital Twins Through a Live Bidirectional Link” at the 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference.
Nov 26, 2024
Optimizing Wireless Backhaul Networks
ECE Research Scientist Gabriele Gemmi, Assistant Research Professor Michael Polese, and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received the Best Paper Award for “Optimizing and Managing Wireless Backhaul for Resilient Next-Generation Cellular Networks” at the 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM).