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Apr 10, 2023
Sustainability Trips to Brazil Earn Professor Northeastern’s First Global Educator Award
ChE Associate Teaching Professor Courtney Pfluger received Northeastern University’s inaugural 2023 Global Educator Award. Pfluger’s work on developing meaningful cooperative partner projects, including nine Dialogue of Civilizations visits to Brazil since 2013, made her nomination stand out.
Apr 07, 2023
Isolating Plastics To Analyze Pollutants
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins’ research on “An Optimized Acidic Digestion for the Isolation of Microplastics From Biota-rich Samples and Cellulose Acetate Matrices” was published in Environmental Pollution.
Apr 07, 2023
Biodegradable Nanogenerators Lead to Less Electronic Waste
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya’s research on “Aligned PLLA Electrospun Fibres Based Biodegradable Triboelectric Nanogenerator” was published in Nano Energy. His research demonstrates a fully biodegradable triboelectric nanogenerator to tackle the global issue of electronic waste.
Apr 06, 2023
NSF CAREER Award for Examining Flow of Polymer Gels in Confined Spaces
ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi was awarded a $550,000 NSF CAREER award for “In Situ Polymer Gelation in Confined Flows” to examine how polymer gels flow through tight spaces to better predict clogging behavior such as blood flow through a vessel.
Apr 06, 2023
Carrier Receives Honorable Mention at 3-D ROC
ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier received an honorable mention during the National Eye Institute (NEI) 3-D Retina Organoid Challenge (3-D ROC). Carrier’s team created an organoid-microvessel co-culture system that proposes to add vasculature embedded in a biomimetic hydrogel to organoids to increase oxygen and nutrient flow and mimic the chemical and physical cues present in developing eye tissue.
Apr 06, 2023
2023 Compass Awards
Bioengineering students Joseph Blanchet, E’22, and Shandy Ndjigue, E’23, are recipients of the 2023 Compass Awards, which recognizes exemplary students from the senior class who, during their time on campus, have demonstrated a true dedication to a core set of values: leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern.
Apr 06, 2023
Combating Chemotherapy Drug Shortages With Plant Engineering
ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons is developing methods to produce more plant-derived chemotherapeutic compounds to meet drug shortages. She received a Spark Fund award from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation for this work.
Apr 06, 2023
How Do You Start a Robotics Club From Scratch? Northeastern London Students Found the Winning Formula
As a current first-year engineering student at Northeastern’s London campus, Aidan Carrier helped to create a new robotics club that has already developed a talented robot that won the Unibots UK robotics competition.