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BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara Profiled in Tatler
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in the Tatler article “Meet Dr. Mona Minkara, the Blind Scientist Redefining Accessible Travel and Adventure.”
Fall 2024 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Fall 2024 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

$1.95M NIH MIRA R35 Award for Developing New Strategies To Combat Bacterial Infections
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was awarded a $1.95 million NIH R35 MIRA Award for Early-Stage Investigators for “Foundational Investigations Into Bacterial Surface Glycan Dynamics.” The project aims to advance knowledge of bacterial and glycan behavior, leading to new ways to enhance health and prevent infections.
2024 URF Scholars Recipients
Several engineering students received 2024 URF Scholars Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. URF Scholars are students who are graduating this year and who have earned a PEAK Experiences Award, applied for a distinguished fellowship, or participated in graduate school advising.
Summer 2024 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2024 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Celebrating Affinity Student Groups at the 18th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to several COE affinity student groups at the 18th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The groups represented included SHPE, SWE, BESS, SASE, and DICE.

NSF CAREER Award To Improve Immune Response With AI
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was awarded a $827,000 NSF CAREER Award for “Decoding the Code of Glycan-Collectin Interactions: Computational Engineering of Surfactant Proteins for Tailored Glycan Recognition.” The focus will be to better understand and improve the immune system response to pathogens.

Mona Minkara Advocates for Accessibility in Science
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in the Chemical and Engineering News article “Mona Minkara Advocates for Accessibility in Science.”

Celebrating Bioengineering at Northeastern: Visions for the Future
The Department of Bioengineering hosted a 10 year anniversary celebration to commemorate what the department has accomplished and showcase its plans for the future.
Spring 2024 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
A record number of engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2024 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Minkara Serves as Moderator for Intersection of Disability Panel
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara served as a moderator for the “Intersection of Disability Panel” at the Disrupting Ableism and Advancing STEM: A National Leadership Summit held on June 5, 2023.

We Need People With Different Perspectives To Solve Problems
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara’s speech at the United Nations about the need for visually impaired people in the field of science earned her a standing ovation.

Celebrating National Engineers Week 2023
The College of Engineering celebrated National Engineers Week with events including a ‘Break the Mold’ Fireside Chat with award-winning engineer and commentator Dr. Shini Somara and Dean Gregory Abowd; Cookies with the Dean event, which included snacks, photo and video booths, COE swag and a lot of COE pride; Breakout sessions with Shini Somara with select students and faculty showing our progressive engineering program, research, and community; and an Engineering for Everyone Expo hosted by the Center for STEM Education.

Students With Visual Impairments Empowered To Explore Chemistry Through SEPA Project
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in the NIH Biomedical Beat article “Students With Visual Impairments Empowered To Explore Chemistry Through SEPA Project.”
Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

This Technology Makes Data Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in the NPR podcast “This Technology Makes Data Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People.”

BioE Alum Wins 2022 Innovator Award
Bioengineering alumna Samantha Johnson, E’21, ME’21, was the first place winner of the 2022 Innovator Awards given out by Northeastern’s Women Who Empower in the young alumnae graduate category, which she will use to develop a robotic arm that can sign in ASL.
Faculty and Staff Awards 2022
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2021-2022 academic school year.
BioE’s Minkara Participates in Zero-Gravity Flight
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara participated in a zero-gravity flight with a crew of 12 ambassadors with mobility, vision, and hearing disabilities to test how spacesuits and vessels can be made […]

Dr. Mona Minkara creates docu-series to share the global perceptions of disabilities through travel
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured by WCVB in the article “Dr. Mona Minkara creates docu-series to share the global perceptions of disabilities through travel” for her creation of […]

Making Space Accessible to All
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara participated in a zero-gravity flight with a crew of 12 ambassadors with mobility, vision, and hearing disabilities to test how spacesuits and vessels can be made more accessible.
Fall 2021 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Chemical Modeling with a Sense of Touch
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in Nature’s article “Chemical modeling with a sense of touch.”
Summer 2021 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE undergraduate students are recipients of the Summer 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

REU Award for Modeling SARS-CoV-2 Proteins
BioE Affiliated Faculty Mary Jo Ondrechen, Assistant Professor Mona Minkara, and COS Assistant Professor Steven Lopez were awarded a $73K NSF RAPID grant for “Undergraduate Research in Modeling and Computation for Discovery of Molecular Probes for SARS-CoV-2 Proteins.”

Professor Mona Minkara’s interactive classroom requires no sight
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in The Huntington News article “Professor Mona Minkara’s interactive classroom requires no sight” for the challenges and successes she has had after being diagnosed with macular degeneration and cone-rod dystrophy.
Spring 2020 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Congratulations to the COE student recipients of the Spring 2020 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they […]

Approaching Research From a Different Perspective
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara, who has been blind since she was seven, has learned to approach research from different angles which is helping her determine how vaping affects lung function.

New Faculty Spotlight: Mona Minkara
Mona Minkara joins the Bioengineering department in August 2019 as an Assistant Professor.