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Jan 26, 2022
Ensuring Well Water is Safe to Drink
CEE Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper is researching private wells, which serve about 15% of the US population, to determine if they have been contaminated after events like floods.
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Jan 25, 2022
Creating a More Comfortable Fitness Tracker
ECE Associate Professor Canek Fuentes-Hernandez is creating a thin, flexible fitness tracker that doesn’t consume a lot of power.
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Jan 24, 2022
Do 5G Frequency Bands Interfere with Older Plane Altimeters?
William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia explains how new 5G network radio frequencies might interfere with older plane altimeters.
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Jan 24, 2022
risQ Acquired by Intercontinental Exchange
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly’s spinout company risQ, a climate modeling and analytics company founded by him and his former PhD students, was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange last month.
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Jan 24, 2022
Checking to Determine if a Mask is Counterfeit
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir explains how to help determine if N95 and KN95 masks are counterfeit by checking for certain codes and expiration dates.
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Jan 24, 2022
Fu Receives Acorn Innovation Fund Award
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu received an Acorn Innovation Fund Award for his project “Pathfind: AI Driven Remote Motion Tracking by Light-Weight Deep Learning.”
Jan 19, 2022
Henry Luce Foundation Awards Prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowships To Northeastern University
Northeastern University is honored to be the recipient of an award from the Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM to support fellowships for women pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering or Physics. Since its first grants in 1989, the Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Program for Women in STEM has become the […]
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Jan 18, 2022
Kaeli Selected as ACM Fellow
ECE Professor David Kaeli was selected as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for his contributions to computer architecture and compilers.