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Jul 28, 2025
Understanding Bone Change From Evolution To Everyday Movement
MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, in collaboration with Brown University, was awarded a $625,000 NSF grant for “Bones and Burrowing: Mechanoadaptation in phylogeny, ontogeny and ecology of Peromyscus.”
Jul 24, 2025
Advancing Health Research While Safeguarding Genetic Privacy
MIE Assistant Professor Xubo Yue, in collaboration with Brown University, has received a $1M NSF grant for the project titled “SCH: Protecting Privacy and Promoting Fairness in Advanced Genomic Research using Federated Learning.” This project represents a significant step forward in advancing federated learning for large-scale, privacy-preserving analysis of biological data across multiple institutions – enabling collaboration without the need for data sharing.
Jul 24, 2025
Breakthroughs In Next-Generation Wireless Communication
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, in collaboration with Princeton University (lead), Florida International University, and New York University, was awarded a $1.2M NSF grant for “Resilient Multi-User Mobile sub-THz Networks using Near-Field Wavefronts.”
Jul 23, 2025
Akcay and Martagan received 2025 EURO Award
MIE Associate Professors Alp Akcay and Tugce Martagan were awarded the 2025 EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper. This award recognizes the most outstanding paper published in the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), one of the leading journals in the field of operations research and decision sciences.
Jul 23, 2025
Seba’s Short-Tailed Bat Displays Distinctive Wing-Bone Morphological and Material Properties
Bioengineering alumni Xiaoxiang Ma, MS’23, and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, published their research on “A proximodistal gradient in bone structure and mechanics in the wings of Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata” in The Anatomical Record.
Jul 22, 2025
Advancing Weather Prediction for Defense Applications
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly is the lead PI for a $1,000,000 grant from the Air Force Weather titled “Weather Ensemble Analytics and Visualization Environment (WEAVE)”.
Jul 22, 2025
Club Brings Together Students Interested in AI
MGEN Adjunct Faculty David de Hilster created the NL Blockchain Club to give students the opportunity to design and build an AI ecosystem using blockchain and a programming language called NLP++.
Jul 22, 2025
New Innovative App That Tracks Seizures
Muskaan “Mukki” Gill, E’25, mechanical engineering and history, developed an app that helps individuals to track and manage their seizures. Gill came up with this idea after witnessing her brother’s struggle with recurring seizures.