News
Feb 17, 2026
2026 Goldwater Scholarship Nominees
Megan Farrington, E’27, electrical engineering and physics, and Maren Ritterbuck, E’27, bioengineering and biochemistry were nominated for the 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship—a highly competitive, merit-based award for outstanding students in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering who are interested in pursuing careers in research.
Feb 17, 2026
Patent for Faster and More Efficient AI Applications on Smartphones
ECE Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for DNN weight pruning for real-time execution on mobile devices.”
Feb 17, 2026
Patent for Using Nasal Stem Cells to Help Repair Damaged Nerves
ChE Associate Professors Ryan Koppes and Abigail Koppes were awarded a patent for “Differentiation of olfactory mucosa derived mesenchymal stem cells to schwann cells for peripheral nerve repair.”
Feb 13, 2026
Patent for a Scalable and Sustainable Approach to High Performance Computing
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella was awarded a patent for developing a “Low power Ising system.”
Feb 13, 2026
Patent for Increasing the Yield and Safety of Essential Cancer Medicines
ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons was awarded a patent for “Cultivation and treatment of plants for the production of plant-derived drugs.”
Feb 13, 2026
Shrivastava and Zheng Receive MassCEC Funding for Climate Tech Advancement
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava’s start-up, Think Analog, Inc., and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng were each awarded $75,000 as part of a $4.5 million Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) investment for 23 clean energy and climate technology projects.
Feb 12, 2026
Engineering Faster Drug Delivery: A PhD Journey in Fluid Mechanics
Langqi Xing, PhD’28, mechanical and industrial engineering, currently works in the Multiphase Transport Research lab as a graduate researcher. Drawing on his interdisciplinary background and experiences at Northeastern, Xing plans to pursue an industrial role advancing fluid mechanics applications in medicine.
Feb 11, 2026
Recent Scuba Diving Trip in Antarctica to Study Sea Star Wasting Disease
Richard Whalen, director and teaching professor within the first-year engineering program, has recently completed a scuba diving off the coast of western Antarctica. The trip’s purpose was to study evidence of sea star wasting disease in Antarctic waters.