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May 13, 2025
Stephen Lynch, E’89, Credits Northeastern for Success in Energy Industry
During his address at the College of Engineering undergraduate commencement ceremony, Stephen Lynch, E’89, electrical engineering, shared how his co-op experiences at General Motors and a nuclear power plant prepared him professionally and gave him the confidence that drove his success.
May 12, 2025
Northeastern’s Boston Campus Hosts Inaugural Magnetics Workshop
The Inaugural NU Cross-College Magnetics Center Workshop, hosted at Northeastern’s Boston campus on May 7, 2025, brought together dozens of participants from the university’s Boston, Burlington, and Portland campuses.
May 09, 2025
New Computational Model Enables Alloy Design for Real Materials
MIE Professor Moneesh Upmanyu’s new research paper, “Solute-drag Forces From Short-time Equilibrium Fluctuations of Crystalline Interfaces,” was selected as an Editor’s Pick by the Journal of Applied Physics. He discovered a faster, cost-efficient, and more accurate computational model for alloy design of real materials.
May 08, 2025
Zheng Moderates Photonics Panel at CLEO 2025
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng moderated the panel discussion, “Next-Gen Photonic Metamaterials: Innovations in Light, Heat, Devices, and AI,” at the 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), organized by the IEEE Photonics Society, OPTICA, and APS.
May 08, 2025
ECE Team Wins Best Reproducible Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2025
A research team led by Guodong Chen, PhD’29, computer engineering, won the Best Reproducible Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2025 for research on “TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression Using Volume-Tracked Reference Meshes.”
May 06, 2025
Northeastern Team Wins Grand Prize at MassRobotics Competition
A Northeastern University student team won first place at the MassRobotics Form & Function Robotics Challenge, receiving the $10,000 grand prize. They competed against 16 teams from universities across the globe.
May 02, 2025
Short Bursts of Mechanical Stress on Epithelial Cells Can Trigger Lasting Biological Response
Ning Wang, BioE professor and director of the Institute for Mechanobiology, and a team of researchers published “Mechanomemory After Short Episodes of Intermittent Stresses Induces YAP Translocation via Increasing F-actin” in APL Bioengineering.
May 01, 2025
Cassella Receives EFTF Young Scientist Award
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella is the recipient of the European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) Young Scientist Award “for his seminal research on metamaterials in RF microacoustics as well as for his pioneering contributions on long-range remote sensors and lower-noise frequency generators through parametric nonlinearities.”