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Oct 24, 2025
When Variant Proteins Aren’t Actually the Variant Ones
The bioRxiv preprint of BioE Professor Nikolai Slavov’s research group on “Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals” was featured in the Science article “When Variant Proteins Aren’t Actually the Variant Ones.”
Oct 22, 2025
SpaceX and NASA Partnership Makes Positive Progress in Aerospace Industry
ECE Professor Taskin Padir talks about NASA’s partnership with SpaceX and how it will positively progress NASA’s research and help advance technology in the aerospace industry.
Oct 22, 2025
Hot Drought of Summer 2023 in Southwestern North America
Roux Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow Somnath Mondal’s research on “Hot Drought of Summer 2023 in Southwestern North America,” which was published in Geophysical Research Letters, was featured on American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Phys.org.
Oct 22, 2025
Dual Grants Totaling $1M Secured to Advance AI Safety Research
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi was selected as the single PI for two competitive research grants from Open Philanthropy totaling $1.02 million to advance her AI safety research.
Oct 22, 2025
New Analog Chip Powers Next-Gen Radar
ECE Assistant Professor Aravind Nagulu’s lab published their work on “Fully Analog, Multi-Lag, RF Correlators for Code-Domain Radars Using Margin Propagation” in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
Oct 19, 2025
In ARPA-E Project, CEE faculty Push Frontier of Sustainable Structural Engineering
An ongoing multi-institutional research project led by CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor Jerry Hajjar and funded by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy (ARPA-E) is laying the groundwork at the forefront of structural engineering. The grant, titled “4C2B: Century-Scale Carbon-Sequestration in Cross-Laminated Timber Composite Bolted-Steel Buildings,” remains underway, but is already bearing fruit in the development of a new system for building design and construction, with multiple papers published with findings from the promising research.
Oct 17, 2025
Two Northeastern Professors Recognized as Massachusetts AI Innovators
CEE/MES Professor Qin Jim Chen and DMSB/MIE Associate Professor Tucker Marion both won the Massachusetts AI Hub’s AI Models Innovation Challenge.
Oct 16, 2025
New AI Tool Detects Sepsis Early
MGEN Teaching Professor Sergey Aitan has led a research project that has been working on developing an innovative medical tool using artificial intelligence that detects septic shock in the body.