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Oct 20, 2023
Sherman Center Venture Co-op: Mukki Gill
Mukki Gill, a mechanical engineering and history major, is on a venture co-op at the Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education. In this Q&A she describes her experience and hope to invent a medical device for epilepsy.
Oct 20, 2023
Advancing Early Cancer Detection
ChE/COS Assistant Professor Magda Barecka has discovered a new, more efficient, and environmentally friendly method of separating carbon isotopes, which has the potential to advance both the early detection of cancer and the sustainable production of chemicals. Her research was published in the journal iScience.
Oct 20, 2023
$2M NIH R35 MIRA Award for Developing a Computer Model for Improved Disease Understanding
ChE Assistant Professor Srirupa Chakraborty has been awarded a $1.99 million NIH R35 MIRA Award for Early Stage Investigators to design and develop a computational model for making biomaterials that function like mucin, a naturally occurring substance in the human body that serves as a protective layer on tubular organs and surfaces exposed to external environment.
Oct 20, 2023
Developing a Computer Model to Deliver Gene Therapies for Cystic Fibrosis
ChE Assistant Professor Srirupa Chakraborty was awarded a $100K NIH SBIR award for “Computationally-Inspired Design of Non-Viral Gene Delivery Vehicles for mRNA-Based Cystic Fibrosis Therapies.”
Oct 20, 2023
A Climate Dialogue To Remember: South Asia and the 2023 Monsoons
A Dialogue of Civilizations course led by CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly traveled to India during the summer of 2023 to study climate science and engineering, adaptation and policy, data science and artificial intelligence, and cultural immersion.
Oct 19, 2023
Aayushi Mishra Joins Northeastern CEE PhD Program as Inaugural Lizzy Warner Fellow
Aayushi Mishra, a new student in the Interdisciplinary PhD program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was awarded the inaugural Mary Elizabeth “Lizzy” Warner ’22 Fellowship.
Oct 18, 2023
Testing Extremes of Human Motor Control To Advance Robotics
Dagmar Sternad, University Distinguished Professor of biology, physics, and ECE, and her research group at Northeastern’s Action Lab, including mechanical engineering PhD student Mahdiar Edraki, are looking at extreme human movement to understand how humans manipulate complex objects, like whips.
Oct 18, 2023
Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Munoz was featured in the Scientific American article “Here’s Why Salt Water Is Invading the Mississippi and Whether It Will Happen More Often.”