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Jan 20, 2023
Renovation of Northeastern University Engineering Lab To Spark Urban Design Innovation
The new Civil and Environmental Engineering Design Studio was featured in the Boston Real Estate Times article “Renovation of Northeastern University Engineering Lab To Spark Urban Design Innovation.”
Jan 18, 2023
Atmospheric Rivers Can Lead to Massive Flooding and Deaths
MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz and CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly explain how atmospheric rivers can lead to devastating floods.
Jan 18, 2023
NSF CAREER Award for Examining sRNAs as Potential Disease Prevention
Jiahe Li, BioE assistant professor, has been awarded a $636,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, titled “Understanding and Harnessing Host-derived Small RNAs Against Opportunistic Pathogens,” to learn how to harness one of the body’s natural defense mechanisms to inhibit bad bacteria.
Jan 18, 2023
Patent for Designs for a Zero Power Plasmonic Microelectromechanical Device
ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Research Assistant Professor Zhenyun Qian were awarded a patent for designing a “Zero power plasmonic microelectromechanical device.”
Jan 18, 2023
Fu Selected as ACM Fellow
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to computer security, and especially to the secure engineering of medical devices.
Jan 17, 2023
Fall 2022 Spark Fund Awardees
ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons, ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes, and MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li are recipients of the Fall 2022 Spark Fund Awards from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation.
Jan 13, 2023
Locomotives, Ophthalmoscopes, and Mountain Bikes: A Northeastern Alum’s Impact
Morgan Misek, mechanical engineering alumnus, has founded Trxstle, an outdoors equipment company combining his love of cycling, the outdoors, and engineering—all of which he pursued while a student at Northeastern.
Jan 12, 2023
Patent for Creating Intelligent Access Points in Dense Wi-Fi Networks
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a patent for “Method and apparatus for access point discovery in dense WiFi networks”.