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Mar 08, 2022
Hajjar and Collaborators Awarded New Grant for Fundamental Innovation in Building Design
In a new grant from the Charles Pankow Foundation and industry partners, CDM Smith Professor and Northeastern Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Chair Jerome Hajjar and colleagues at three other institutions were awarded $425,000 to investigate a new modular steel plate floor framing and diaphragm system in steel building structures.
Mar 07, 2022
Designing a Solar-Driven Water Desalination System
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was awarded a $250K NSF grant to develop a “Solar Evaporator-Based High-Efficiency Water Desalination System.”
Mar 07, 2022
Research to Help Unlock the Mystery of How Cancer Spreads
Bioengineering Professor Mark Niedre and Assistant Professor Chiara Bellini received a 5-year, $2.7M grant titled “Continuous, Non-Invasive Optical Monitoring of Circulating Tumor Cell-Mediated Metastasis in Awake Mice” from the National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health. The project will develop a new instrument (“w-DiFC”) for optically detecting and counting rare circulating tumor cells continuously and non-invasively in awake, freely-moving mice.
Feb 28, 2022
2.1M DOE Award to Develop Clean Energy Technology
ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi, who is director of the Northeastern SMART Center and the Kostas Nanotechnology Lab, has been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for “High-Performance and Miniaturized Greenhouse Gas Sensor for Drone-based Remote Sensing.” The grant is part of the OPEN 2021 program, which […]
Feb 28, 2022
Sternad awarded $3M NIH-MERIT Award for Human Control of Complex Objects
Dagmar Sternad, University Distinguished Professor of Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics, and Core Faculty in the Institute for Experiential Robotics, has been awarded a five-year $3M Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health to investigate human sensorimotor control of dynamically complex objects.
Feb 28, 2022
CEE Alumna Named One of ASCE 2022 New Faces in Civil Engineering
Civil engineering alumna Annahid Dastgheib-Beheshti, E’15, was named one of the ASCE 2022 New Faces in Civil Engineering. Dastgheib-Beheshti is the current President of the Northeastern University Civil Engineering Alumni Organization and is a Senior Civil Engineer at Arup in Boston.
Feb 25, 2022
Handling Both Routing and Caching Effectively
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a patent for “Joint routing and caching method for content delivery with optimality guarantees for arbitrary networks.”
Feb 25, 2022
Combined Overtone Resonators for the mmWave Spectrum
ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi was awarded a patent for “Aluminum nitride combined overtone resonators for the mmWave spectrum.” Abstract Source: USPTO A resonator system is provided in which a combined overtone resonator device is excited with a two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration in a cross sectional plane of a piezoelectric plate in response to an […]