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Congratulations RISE: 2021 Winners
Congratulations to our engineering students who won awards at the RISE:2021 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo!
You made WHAT last summer?
Two students from a Center for STEM Education summer program were featured in NSF’s tumblr post “You made WHAT last summer?” about their work in MIE Associate Professor Carol Livermore’s lab.
ApreX Biotech Spinoff Uses Origami for Drug Development
MIE Associate Professor Carol Livermore's new spinoff company ApreX Biotech is using origami techniques to mimic tissues in the human body to test drug interactions. Source: News @ Northeastern To Northeastern engineering professor Carol Livermore, origami is more than just beautiful art—it’s a platform to create life-saving innovations in science and medicine. Since 2015, a […]
Young Scholar Program Provides Experience-Based Learning for Future Scientists and Engineers
The Center for STEM Education kicked off its 2017 Young Scholars Program on June 26, 2017, with 26 budding scientists and engineers from high schools at a variety of cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.
Livermore awarded a patent for sealable microvalves
MIE Associate Professor Carol Livermore and doctoral student Chenye Yang were awarded a patent for a “Sealable microvalve that can be repeatedly opened and sealed” that can be used for miniature vacuum and analysis systems. Abstract Source: USPTO A substantially leak-free, sealable microvalve that can be repeatedly opened and sealed is presented. The resealable microvalve […]
Faculty and Staff Awards 2016
2016 Faculty and Staff Awards Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2015-2016 academic school year. Faculty Fellow Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE Carol Livermore, MIE Marilyn Minus, MIE Rising Star Staff Award Gabrielle Fiorenza, Co-op Nicole Nightingale, Dean’s Office Outstanding Teachers […]
2016 COE Faculty Fellows
Congratulations to this year’s class of COE Faculty Fellows: Kaushik Chowdhury, Carol Livermore, and Marilyn Minus.
Carol Livermore co-chairs PowerMEMS 2015, and her research group presents four papers.
MIE Associate Professor Carol Livermore co-chaired the 15th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2015) in Boston.
NSF visits Livermore's Lab as part of Young Scholars Program
MIE Associate Professor Carol Livermore's Micropower and Nanoengineering Laboratory was visited by a NSF Program Manager to discuss the research she is doing with young scholars and undergraduate students this summer.
Origami Tissue Engineering
MIE Associate Professor Carol Livermore-Clifford was featured in Boston Magazine for her ideas of using origami techniques to create 3D organ tissues.
Fusing Nanotube Structures
MIE Associate Professors Yung Joon Jung, Moneesh Upmanyu, Carol Livermore-Clifford, and ECE Professor David Kaeli were awarded an $1.3M NSF grant to create high-performance carbon nanofibers.
Carol Livermore integrates origami into tissue engineering
Carol Livermore, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Engineering tissue to create livers and other human organs for transplant is a fast-growing field in biotechnology. To overcome one of its critical challenges, Livermore is applying the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, origami. Current tissue engineering methods lack precision in placing blood vessels and […]
Origami unfolds a new tissue engineering strategy
Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, has been around for more than a millennium, but associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering Carol Livermore is now using it to create solutions in an emerging multidisciplinary field in medicine: tissue engineering. “There are lots of reasons to wish that we could make human spare parts,” said Livermore, […]