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Jul 20, 2026
Expanding Proteome Diversity Through Alternate RNA Decoding
BioE Professor Nikolai Slavov’s laboratory published research on “Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals” in Nature.
Jul 16, 2026
Designing a More Affordable, Sustainable Marimba
Amartya Bhattacharya, E, computer science and computer engineering, tested the physical and acoustic properties of 17 different materials, finding that hickory and cherry wood show the most promise as sustainable, affordable alternatives to endangered rosewood for constructing marimba practice bars.
Jul 16, 2026
Bringing AI and Robotics to New England’s Seafood Industry
ECE Professors Taskin Padir and Hanumant Singh are collaborating on the newly launched, National Science Foundation-backed “Seafood Engine” in New England, a multi-state initiative utilizing a $15 million grant to revitalize the regional seafood industry and reduce the U.S. seafood trade deficit through advanced technologies like robotics and AI.
Jul 16, 2026
Pantry Staple Science Helps Engineering Team Rethink the Laws of Physics
MIE Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Tang and graduate student Boqian Yan, MS’24, PhD, mechanical engineering, published research in Physical Review Fluids mapping five distinct behaviors of particle-heavy droplets—like oobleck—colliding with liquids, offering insights that could advance precision 3D printing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and environmental pesticide application.
Jul 14, 2026
Northeastern University Unveils GENESIS: First Agentic AI System to Take 5G/6G RAN Features from Specification to Over-the-Air in Hours
GENESIS, a groundbreaking AI framework developed by Northeastern’s Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) to autonomously translate 5G/6G specifications into over-the-air code in hours, was featured on PR Newswire.
Jul 14, 2026
Creating Shock-Resistant Sensors That Won’t Break Under Pressure
Research conducted by the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation on “Toward Enhanced Inertial Sensing via Dynamically Soft Topological States in Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterials,” was published in Advanced Functional Materials, a top journal in materials science and engineering.
Jul 14, 2026
BioE PhD Student wins Best Oral Presentation at the 2026 C. elegans Neuroscience Meeting
Sahana Gangadharan, a fourth-year BioE PhD candidate in Associate Professor Vivek Venkatachalam’s lab, won the “Best Oral Presentation” award at the 2026 C. elegans Neuroscience Meeting (CeNeuro).
Jul 09, 2026
Zhao’s Research Featured on Cover of Nanoscale
ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao’s research on “Computational progress of designing single-atom alloy catalysts for methane activation” was featured on the back cover of Nanoscale.