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Mansoor Amiji

Jun 10, 2024

New Approaches for Blood Disease Treatments

Bouvé/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji’s research on “Lipid Nanoparticles Target Haematopoietic Stem Cells” was published in Nature Nanotechnology.

Chemical Engineering

Jun 10, 2024

Taking a Healthy Lifestyle One Step at a Time

MGEN Associate Teaching Professor Ram Hariharan debunks the myth of a magic number of steps people need to take each day to stay healthy. He says the true benchmark that people should be setting depends on individual health and fitness goals.

Multidisciplinary Masters (IT Areas)

Megan Hofmann

Jun 10, 2024

Developing Tools for Interactive Smart Knitted Textiles

Khoury/MIE Assistant Professor Megan Hofmann was awarded a $550,000 NSF grant for “Tools for Programming and Designing Interactive Machine-Knitted Smart Textiles.”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 10, 2024

Northeastern Researchers Participate in Inaugural ClimaTech Conference

ECE/Khoury Professor Jennifer Dy, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, and CEE Assistant Professor Julia Hopkins took part in the inaugural ClimaTech conference, joining hundreds of energy and technology experts from around the world who gathered to explore how protecting the environment can contribute to economic growth. 

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 10, 2024

New England Tennis Hall of Fame Opens Its Doors to Foxboro’s Jaeger-Helton

MIE Teaching Professor Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton was featured in The Sun Chronicle article “New England Tennis Hall of Fame Opens Its Doors to Foxboro’s Jaeger-Helton” for her induction into the […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 06, 2024

PhD LEADERs Program Helps Alum Secure Multiple Job Offers and Shape Career Path

Burcu Özek, PhD’24, industrial engineering, credits Northeastern’s LEADERs program with helping her effectively communicate the value of her machine learning research in healthcare, leading to multiple job offers and ultimately guiding her career path.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 06, 2024

Ensuring Safety and Evaluating Risks for Deep-Sea Missions

ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh outlines the safety certifications and risk evaluations that go into deep-sea research missions in autonomous underwater vehicles. Despite last year’s OceanGate tragedy, another manned deep dive is planned to take place in the summer of 2026.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Yi Zheng

Jun 06, 2024

$1M Air Force Award To Harness Solar and Thermal Energy for Spacecrafts

MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng, in collaboration with Faraday Technology Inc., received a $1 million research grant from the U.S. Air Force, for a “Concentric Ultra-Dark Solar-Thermal Absorber and Metasurface Thermal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Power Conversion.”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering