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Feb 24, 2022
Global Co-op Program Selected by NASFA for Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization
Northeastern University’s global cooperative education program has been selected by NASFA: Association of International Educators to receive a 2022 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. Northeastern is one of five higher education institutions to be recognized within two categories. The nomination was submitted by Sally Conant, assistant director of global cooperative education in Northeastern’s […]
Feb 23, 2022
$3.4M NIH ONES Award to Study the Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Human Health
BioE Assistant Professors Jessica Oakes and Chiara Bellini were awarded a 5-year, $3.4M NIH grant for “Cardiopulmonary Risk Assessment from Smoke Exposure at the Wildland Urban Interface.”
Feb 23, 2022
Engineering Student Selected as Northeastern’s First Churchill Scholar
Cameron Young, E’22, chemical engineering and biochemistry, is the first Northeastern student to be selected for the prestigious Churchill Scholarship, which will allow him to study breast cancer at Cambridge University in England.
Feb 22, 2022
Advancing the Development of 2D Polymers
ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig was awarded a $275k grant by the Army Research Laboratory in continued funding for the development of novel chemical monomers and polymerization methods for 2D polymers.
Feb 17, 2022
Method to Detect and Locate Small Tumors
BioE Associate Professor Qianqian Fang was awarded a patent for designing a “Method to localize small and high contrast inclusions in ill-posed model-based imaging modalities.”
Feb 17, 2022
Sign Language Robot You Can Feel
Bioengineering alumna Samantha Johnson, E’21, ME’21, created the tactile sign language robot, TATUM, for people who are deaf and blind to communicate. Related Article: Using Robots to Help Blind and Deaf People Communicate
Feb 16, 2022
Ostadabbas Receives NSF CAREER Grant for Early Detection of Autism
ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas was awarded a $600K NSF CAREER grant for “Learning Visual Representations of Motor Function in Infants as Prodromal Signs for Autism.”
Feb 14, 2022
Self-Powered Sensorial ‘Skin’ the Future of Motion and Gesture Recognition
Groundbreaking research on flexible photodetectors with computational powers by Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, has been published in npj Flexible Electronics. The researchers developed a new approach to achieve motion and gesture recognition using arrays of thin and flexible organic photodetectors distributed in space.