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May 19, 2026
Schulte Grahame Honored with 2026 Heart of CommUNITY Collaboration Award
FYE Teaching Professor Kathryn Schulte Grahame was selected as a 2026 recipient of Northeastern University’s Heart of CommUNITY: Collaboration Award.
May 19, 2026
Patent for Brainwave Feedback Technology to Help Treat Anxiety and Depression
ECE Professor Sarah Ostadabbas has received a patent for “System and method for providing neurofeedback from steady-state visual evoked potentials to target affect-biased attention for treating therapeutic outcomes such as anxiety and depression.”
May 19, 2026
Patent for Compressing and Accelerating Mobile AI Models
ECE Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for compressing recurrent neural network (RNN) models and accelerating RNN execution in mobile devices to achieve real-time inference.”
May 19, 2026
Engineering a Greener Future, One Protein at a Time
JiaJia Fu, E’26, is a bioengineering student whose research spans modeling the HIV glycan shield at Northeastern’s SymBioSys Lab to engineering plastic-degrading enzymes as a research co-op at the Harvard Wyss Institute. After graduation, she plans to pursue a PhD at the intersection of sustainability and biotechnology, bringing a rare blend of computational and wet lab expertise—and a deep conviction that bioengineering can help solve the planet’s most pressing ecological problems.
May 18, 2026
Trust the Process: How Juliana Castro Turned Uncertainty into Direction
Juliana Castro, BS’26, industrial engineering, completed three co-ops during her time at Northeastern. With a background in engineering and passion for making complex systems more accessible, she hopes to one day launch her own venture—built on the experience, perspective, and drive she developed along the way.
May 18, 2026
Built for the Outdoors: How Aidan Kane Found His Direction
Aidan Kane, E’26, graduated this spring with a degree in chemical engineering. During his time at Northeastern, he gained extensive co-op experience and served as Project Lead for an initiative at the Sherman Center.
May 18, 2026
Translating a Building Operations Pilot with Fulbright Scholar
CEE Associate Professor Michael Kane helped build a 14-hour building operators training certification pilot, that he is now going to take to Argentina as a Fulbright Scholar, and translate the program into Spanish.
May 14, 2026
Maheswaran Selected as ASEE Fellow
COE Distinguished Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran was selected as a Fellow Member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Society.