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Oct 16, 2025
STEMS Young Scholars Present Research on Opioid Use at 2025 IEEE MIT URTC
High school students Gabriella Jewitt and Daniel Golmohammadi, mentored by Tianyu Yang, PhD’26, industrial engineering, conducted research under the supervision of MIE Associate Professor Muhammad Noor E. Alam as part […]
Aug 08, 2025
Young Scholars Program Offers Incredible Opportunities for High School Students
The Young Scholars Program, offered by the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education, allows rising high school seniors to participate in a six-week program to gain hands-on experience in the world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Aug 07, 2025
Effectively Integrating Artificial Intelligence Into High School Classrooms
Ibrahim Zeid, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, Claire Duggan, executive director of the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education, and Associate Teaching Professor Jennifer Love led a week-long professional development program for twelve local high school STEM teachers, funded by a three-year $400,000 NSF grant titled “Modernizing Education: Using AI to Improve Students’ Learning and Build Skills for the Future.”
Jul 15, 2025
Modeling Crystal Growth For Advanced Materials And Medicines
ChE Associate Professor Francisco Hung, in collaboration with Erik Santiso from North Carolina State University, was awarded a $590,666 NSF grant for “Molecular Modeling of Solute Precipitate Nucleation in Confinement.”
Jun 23, 2025
NSF CAREER Award To Advance Multi-Agent Network Optimization Foundations
MIE Assistant Professor Shahin Shahrampour was awarded a $515,000 NSF CAREER grant for “Foundations of Scalable, Fast, and Online Decentralized Manifold Optimization in Multi-Agent Networks.” The project takes a substantial step toward the development and adoption of decentralized manifold optimization in large-scale, multi-agent optimization. Manifold optimization is instrumental in control and engineering applications.
Jun 02, 2025
NSF CAREER Award for Impact Dynamics of Complex Fluid Droplets on Surfaces
MIE Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Tang received a $584,946 NSF CAREER award for “Unraveling Flow-Fluid Coupling During Impact of Complex Fluid Droplets.” The research will establish a framework that combines several state-of-the-art diagnostic methods to probe the impact dynamics of drops composed of complicated fluids. Data will provide critical insight into the impact dynamics of complex fluid droplets on surfaces.
Apr 18, 2025
New Class of CMOS Chips To Address Quantum Computing Bottlenecks
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Professor Marvin Onabajo are developing CMOS-based chips that are smaller and more energy efficient than current technology used to address quantum computing bottlenecks. High school students in Northeastern’s Young Scholars program will participate in this project.
Apr 03, 2025
Making Wireless Signals More Resistant to Interference
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang were awarded a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting Radios’ ReSilience to Interference by Harnessing Magnon-Phonon Coupling In the First ElectromechanicaL SpinPhonic Devices (SHIELD).” They are enhancing a wireless transceiver’s resilience against electromagnetic interference in the 5G and 6G realms in order to transmit data at extremely high rates.