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Nov 25, 2025
PNAS Perspective Defines Mechanomedicine as Target for Disease Treatment
Ning Wang, bioengineering professor and director of the Institute for Mechanobiology, co-authored a perspective article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on “Mechanomedicine: Present state and future promise,” in which they define and map out the future of this critical emerging field.
Nov 25, 2025
ECE Research on Energy-Efficient Serverless Computing Recognized at SC25
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari’s research group received the Best Paper Finalist honor at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC25), the premier international conference for High Performance Computing (HPC). The paper, “GreenMix: Energy-Efficient Serverless Computing via Randomized Sketching on Asymmetric Multi-Cores,” presents a novel technique to significantly improve energy efficiency in modern serverless computing systems.
Nov 25, 2025
An Auto Holy Grail: Motors That Don’t Rely on Chinese Rare Earths
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, was featured in the New York Times article “An Auto Holy Grail: Motors That Don’t Rely on Chinese Rare Earths.”
Nov 20, 2025
New Tool to Detect AI-Generated Text
Sohni Rais, MS’25, information systems, has been researching and developing a tool to analyze writing and detect AI-generated text.
Nov 19, 2025
Yonina Eldar Appointed Joseph E. Aoun Professor
ECE Professor and Joseph E. Aoun Chair Yonina Eldar has dedicated her work to developing meaningful and impactful solutions to improve the healthcare and biomedical technology industry. She now joins Northeastern’s College of Engineering as one of the Joseph E. Aoun Chairs to continue working on impactful projects.
Nov 18, 2025
From Young Scholars Program to Full-Time Student
While in high school, Dmitra Mukasa, E’28, bioengineering, participated in the Young scholars’ program offered by Northeastern. There, she learned about Northeastern’s impactful research and vast array of career opportunities available to its students, sparking her interest in attending the school. Now, in her second year of undergraduate studies, Mukasa has found a degree path that encapsulates all her interests and aspirations, making her excited to continue the journey.
Nov 17, 2025
Engineers Without Borders Making a Difference in Uganda and Panama
Bioengineering students Casey Laguna, E’26, and Elizabeth-Anne Burgett, E’26, are members of Engineers Without Borders at Northeastern. Currently, they are working on an impactful project to build water distribution systems in Panama and Uganda.
Nov 14, 2025
Advanced Battery Design Improves Power and Sulfur Utilization
MIE Associate Professor Hongli Zhu published her research on “Operando Neutron Imaging of Lithium Flux and Gradient Cathode Design for Enhanced Kinetics in High-Loading All-Solid-State Li─S Batteries” in Advanced Materials.