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Oct 21, 2021
Paul Champion receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Conference on Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
The International Conference on Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS) selected BioE Affiliate Faculty and Physics Professor Paul Champion as a recipient for its Lifetime Achievement Award for “Outstanding Contributions and World-Wide Recognition for Developing novel Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopies to Measure Complex Phenomena in Biological Systems”.
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Oct 20, 2021
INFORMS Receives 2021 Student Chapter Award
The Northeastern University INFORMS student group has been selected as a winner of the 2021 INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Award at the Magna cum laude level for the third year in a row.
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Oct 19, 2021
Pfluger Receives Award for Innovation in Chemical Engineering Education
ChE Associate Professor Courtney Pfluger received the “2021 Award for Innovation in Chemical Engineering Education” for the development of an immersive, sustainability-focused, global learning experience through an innovative in-country and virtual faculty-led program applying chemical engineering concepts to global issues.
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Oct 19, 2021
2021 Fulbright Applicants
Rodrigo Blanco Bravo, E’22, bioengineering; Hannah Boyce, E’22, chemical engineering; Lake Jacobs-Skolik, E’22, electrical engineering; and Carrie Tam, E’22, civil engineering and architectural studies, are among the slate of 2021 Northeastern University applicants to the Fulbright US Student Program.
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Oct 19, 2021
Boyce Nominated for Marshall and Mitchell Scholarships
Chemical engineering student Hannah Boyce, E’22, has been nominated for the Marshall and Mitchell Scholarships, which fund study in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and are among the most prestigious postgraduate awards in the world.
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Oct 12, 2021
Creating a Global Network to Explore Living Systems
University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, physics and bioengineering, in collaboration with Princeton University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, William Marsh Rice University, and Yale University, is leading a $5.5M NSF grant for “International Physics of Living Systems Graduate Research Network.”
Oct 12, 2021
Announcing Fall 2021 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Several engineering students and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they continue climbing to new heights of achievement in undergraduate research and creative endeavor throughout their Northeastern journeys. ASCENT AWARDS […]
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Oct 12, 2021
Koppes Awarded $1.96M Early-Stage Investigator Grant from NIH
ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes received a $1.96M NIH R35 MIRA (Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award) for Early Stage Investigators for “Engineering Multifaceted 3D Human Organ Platforms for Toxicity Testing.” This research will help to develop human organs-on-a-chip to improve drug toxicity testing.