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Jul 09, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Julia Varshavsky
Julia Varshavsky joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering in July 2021 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Bouvé College of Health Sciences.
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Jul 09, 2021
Creating a Low-Cost, Digital Biosensor to Detect Protein Biomarkers
MIE Professor Hongwei Sun, in collaboration with the University of Connecticut, is leading a $430K NSF grant for “A Low-Cost, “Digital” Biosensing Platform with Single Protein Biomarker Sensitivity”.
Jul 08, 2021
Announcing New Engineering Academic Programs
The College of Engineering at Northeastern University announces several new academic programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels, including innovative combined majors, to meet industry trends and provide program flexibility for students. Graduate MS in Advanced and Intelligent Manufacturing – meets the growing demand for engineers, researchers, and scientists trained in advanced manufacturing and Industry […]
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Jul 07, 2021
Stubbins and Munoz Published in Science for Plastics in the Earth System
A research paper, titled, “Plastics in the Earth System” by Associate Professor Aron Stubbins, MES/COS/CEE, and Assistant Professor Samuel E. Muñoz, MES/CEE, was published in the journal Science.
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Jul 07, 2021
Tracking Potential Outbreaks Through Wastewater
ECE Professor Nian Sun and MIE Professor Hongwei Sun are part of a team, led by Professor Sheree Pagsuyoin of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, which was awarded $660K in pledged funding as one of five third-place winners of the Trinity Awards, for their project, “Disease Surveillance with Multi-modal Sensor Network & Data Analytics”.
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Jul 06, 2021
NGSEA Wins 2021 SEI Graduate Student Chapter of the Year
The Northeastern Graduate Structural Engineering Association (NGSEA) was selected by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Local Activities Division as the Graduate Student Chapter of the Year for the second year in a row.
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Jul 06, 2021
Creating a Mass-Producible Ising Machine for Quantum-like Computing and Optimization at Room Temperature
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella, in collaboration with Prof. Philip Feng from the University of Florida, has been awarded a $500K NSF grant on “Massive Scale Computing and Optimization through On-chip ParameTric Ising MAchines (OPTIMA)”.
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Jul 02, 2021
Team Led by Sznaier Awarded $7.5M by DoD for Control and Learning Enabled Verifiably Robust AI
Mario Sznaier, Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), is leading a multi-university team that was awarded a $7.5 million, five-year grant from the Department of Defense (DoD).