News
Apr 24, 2023
Finding a Community of Peers With MSIS-Bridge in Silicon Valley
With a bachelor’s degree in linguistics, Yang Jiang joined the MSIS-bridge program in Silicon Valley after working in Japan as a technology consultant and program manager at Accenture. She wanted to change her career to a software engineer to understand how the software is developed rather only implement the technology solutions.
Apr 24, 2023
Career Change From Paralegal to Data Analyst With MSIS-Bridge
Kaleigh Sieczkowski, a student of the MS in information systems-bridge (MSIS-bridge) program, made a career pivot when she realized her passion for solving problems using technology. She studied international relations at Michigan State University, subsequently working as a paralegal. She plans to become a business intelligence analyst after graduating.
Apr 24, 2023
Concern About Parking Garage Safety in Mass. in Wake of Deadly Collapse in New York City
CEE Professor Mehrdad Sasani was featured in the CBS News article “Concern About Parking Garage Safety in Mass. in Wake of Deadly Collapse in New York City.”
Apr 24, 2023
First-Year Engineering Showcase at Northeastern London
First-year engineering students at Northeastern University London showed off their hard work this semester with a robot exhibition in the campus hub.
Apr 24, 2023
$3.4M NIH Grant To Discover RNA Modification Sites Using Pseudouridine Modified mRNA
BioE Assistant Professor Sara Rouhanifard was awarded a $3.4 million NIH R01 grant for “Synthetic mRNA Control Set for Nanopore-Based Pseudouridine Modification Profiling in Human Transcriptomes.” The research has the potential to vastly increase insight into the epitranscriptome—changes in chemical modifications of RNA that can affect gene expression within cells—which could help identify new therapeutic targets and lead to new classes of drugs.
Apr 24, 2023
NIH $1.96M MIRA R35 Award To Battle Against Antibiotic Resistance
Elizabeth Libby, assistant professor of bioengineering, recently received a five-year, $1.96 million Early Stage Investigator R35 MIRA (Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award) grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Physiological and Developmental Role of Bacterial Ser/Thr Kinases.” Libby’s research is focused on how bacteria develop resistance at the cellular level—knowledge that will be crucial to the development of more effective antibiotics.
Apr 20, 2023
2023 Capstone Projects
The engineering departments hosted a series of poster sessions and presentations featuring capstone projects completed by our engineering seniors.
Apr 20, 2023
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship
Brett Emery, PhD’28, mechanical engineering, advised by Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton, was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship.