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Jul 15, 2025
Modeling Crystal Growth For Advanced Materials And Medicines
ChE Associate Professor Francisco Hung, in collaboration with Erik Santiso from North Carolina State University, was awarded a $590,666 NSF grant for “Molecular Modeling of Solute Precipitate Nucleation in Confinement.”
Jul 15, 2025
Sharing Radio Waves For Better Connections
Assistant Research Professor Michael Polese, William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, and WIoT Research Scientist Paolo Testolina were awarded a $759,422 NSF grant for “Sharing Spectrum, Services, and Infrastructure in Spectrum Era 4.”
Jul 15, 2025
Working With Communities To Reduce Flood Risk
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz, Assistant Professor James Dennedy-Frank, and CEE Affiliated Faculty Geoffrey C. Trussell were awarded a $998,696 NSF grant for “Working with communities to reduce flood risk and increase resilience.”
Jul 15, 2025
Innovative Heat-Conductive Plastic Prevents Overheating of Electronics
MIE Professor Randall Erb and Daniel Braconnier, PhD’23, mechanical engineering, give insight into their research and development of a lightweight plastic-ceramic composite that can conduct heat and can be used to cool down advanced electronics.
Jul 14, 2025
AI-Based Sensor Fusion Unveils Auroral Ionosphere Dynamics
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas, in collaboration with Joshua Semeter from Boston University (PI), was awarded a $1,153,603 NSF grant for “Unveiling Hidden Dynamics of the Auroral Ionosphere Using AI-based Sensor Fusion.”
Jul 14, 2025
ECE PhD Receives ACC 2025 Best Paper Finalist Award
Seyed Hamid Hosseini, PhD’26, electrical engineering, working under the supervision of Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani, received a Best Paper Finalist Award at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC 2025) for his paper titled “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intervention of Partially Observable Regulatory Networks.”
Jul 14, 2025
Designing Smarter Catalysts for Cleaner Methane Conversion
Sarah LaCroix, E’27, and Chengyu Zhou, PhD’28, co-authored a paper with ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao titled “Discovering Ni/Cu single-Atom Alloy as a Highly Active and Selective Catalyst for Direct Methane Conversion to Ethylene: A First-Principles Kinetic Study” that was featured in the Supplementary Journal Cover Art of ACS Catalysis.
Jul 08, 2025
Patent for Magnetic Microwires in Medical Treatments
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, and ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes were awarded a patent for “Magnetic microwires for energy-transporting biomedical applications.”