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Feb 19, 2026
Improving the Durability of Wearable Health Monitors and Flexible Displays
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai published his research on “Prevalent Low Interfacial Fatigue Threshold in Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives” in the Journal of Applied Mechanics.
Feb 19, 2026
Becoming Intentional at Dennis Lab with Warisha Tahir
Warisha Tahir, PhD’27, chemical engineering, currently works at Dennis Lab under Professor Alison Dennis. With a focus on positive human impact, Tahir will use her skills and experience to develop new innovations in the public health realm.
Feb 19, 2026
COE Donates $10,000 to BPS Science Fair in Honor of National Engineers Week
Earlier this month, the College of Engineering welcomed high schoolers from Boston Latin and O’Bryant School of Math and Science for a STEM field trip, and presented the Boston Public Schools Science Fair with a $10,000 gift — a contribution the college is spotlighting as we honor National Engineers Week.
Feb 19, 2026
Minkara Wins 2026 Sloan Fellowship for Pulmonary Protein Research
Assistant Professor Mona Minkara, bioengineering, was given the 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship for her research at Northeastern. She is studying a protein called collectins within the pulmonary surfactant, hoping to model its functions to enhance innate immunity from the lungs.
Feb 18, 2026
Cutting Costs for Biofuel by Combining Opposing Microbes to Optimize Manufacturing
New research from the Woolston Lab at Northeastern, led by Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Ben Woolston, is optimizing the biofuel manufacturing process by combining different types of microbes. To do this, they are putting them in the same bioreactor with little oxygen, hoping to reduce cost and resource use in the biofuel industry.
Feb 17, 2026
Yehoshua Publishes Book on Machine Learning Foundations
ECE Associate Teaching Professor Roi Yehoshua published a book on “Machine Learning Foundations, Volume 1: Supervised Learning.”
Feb 17, 2026
Using Heat Patterns for Secure Information Encryption
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng’s research on “Logic computing-derived near-field radiative thermal encryption” was published in Applied Physics Letters.
Feb 17, 2026
Zhu Joins Editorial Boards of the Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry and Extreme Mechanics Letters
Juner Zhu, an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, has joined the editorial boards of the Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry and Extreme Mechanics Letters. Zhu also recently joined the Advisory Board of Cell Reports Physical Science.