News
Mar 30, 2021
Parameswaran Receives NSF CAREER Award for Better Treatment of Asthma
Assistant Professor Harikrishnan Parameswaran, bioengineering, received a $600K NSF CAREER Award for “Elucidating the Role of Collective Cell-Matrix Interactions in the Mechanobiology of Airway Narrowing.” The research seeks to understand how the smooth muscle detects inhaled irritants and generates force at the cellular level to develop better treatment for people with asthma.
Mar 30, 2021
Two COE Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Cameron Young, E’22, chemical engineering and biochemistry, and Spencer Lake Jacobs-Skolik, E’22, electrical engineering, were awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the United States’ premier award for outstanding young researchers in STEM fields.
Mar 29, 2021
SMILE Lab Wins 1st at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu’s SMILE lab won first prize for both the RGB and RGB-D competition tracks of the CVPR21 International Sign Language Challenge.
Mar 29, 2021
Congratulations NSF GRFP Recipients
Congratulations to the current students and alumni who are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. The GRFP provides three years […]
Mar 29, 2021
Eller Receives Prestigious Hodgkinson Award
Kerry Eller, E’21, bioengineering, received the Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award for her distinguished scholastic achievement as well as character, personality, qualities of leadership, cooperative work experience, and service in voluntary organizations and activities. The award is one of Northeastern University’s highest honors for graduating seniors. Colleges nominate their top students on the basis of […]
Mar 29, 2021
Nature Biotechnology Perspective on Increasing proteomics throughput
BioE Assistant Professor and Allen Distinguished Investigator Nikolai Slavov published a perspective article in Nature Biotechnology “Increasing proteomics throughput” highlighting new mass-spectrometry technologies transcending limitations in the throughput of proteomics and opening the stage for many exciting applications.
Mar 25, 2021
Dealing with the Stress of the Pandemic
To help deal with the stress of the pandemic, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Engineering Susan Freeman starts each of her classes with a few moments of meditation and laughter.
Mar 18, 2021
Northeastern Team Named Finalists of DOE Solar Decathlon Competition
A team of Northeastern University students was named Finalists in the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2021 Design Challenge. The students, guided by faculty advisor Associate Professor David Fannon of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Architecture, will compete virtually before industry-recognized judges at the Solar Decathlon Competition event in […]