News
Feb 01, 2022
Creating a Wireless Network Operating System
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for creating a “Distributed wireless network operating system.”
Feb 01, 2022
Transmitting Implantable Medical Device Data Ultrasonically
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for designing an “Ultrasonic multiplexing network for implantable medical devices.”
Feb 01, 2022
Creating Ultra-Low Power Consumption
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “High stability gain structure and filter realization with less than 50 ppm/° c. temperature variation with ultra-low power consumption using switched-capacitor and sub-threshold biasing.”
Jan 31, 2022
ChE PhD Student Receives ASPB Travel Award
Krystyna K. F. Traverse, PhD’23, chemical engineering, has been awarded a 2022 American Society of Plant Biologist Travel Award to attend the Plant Biology 2022 Worldwide Summit in Portland, OR from July 9-13, 2022. Traverse is advised by ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons.
Jan 31, 2022
Creating an Oxygen-Controlling Cell Culture (OCC) System
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $250K Partnerships for Innovation – Technology Translation (PFI-TT) grant to ChE Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif for “Cell Culture System with Enzyme-based Control of Oxygen Concentration to Enhance Biomedical Research”. The team includes graduate student Zachary Rogers, CEO of Cryoxia Biosciences, and technology commercialization expert/consultant Dr. James […]
Jan 31, 2022
Using State-of-the-Art Simulations to Determine Climate Effects on the Mississippi River
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Muñoz, in collaboration with Rice University, was awarded a $700K NSF grant for “Evaluating the Past and Future of Mississippi River Hydroclimatology to Constrain Risk via Integrated Climate Modeling, Observations, and Reconstructions.”
Jan 28, 2022
Measuring Viral Concentrations and Infectivity
BioE Assistant Professor Sara Rouhanifard and Affiliated Faculty Meni Wanunu were awarded a $250K PFI-TT NSF grant for “Developing an integrated platform for high accuracy measurements of viral particle count and infectious titer.”
Jan 27, 2022
Fall 2021 Spark Fund Awardees
BioE Professor Jeff Ruberti, ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston, and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng are recipients of Spark Fund Awards, which help Northeastern researchers bridge the gap between promising lab results and demonstrating a commercially viable prototype.