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Aug 07, 2022
2022 Abie Award Winner Kris Dorsey
Kris Dorsey, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, jointly appointed in physical therapy, movement and rehabilitation sciences, is a 2022 Emerging Leader Abie Award winner from AnitaB.org.
Aug 04, 2022
Engineering Summer Bridge Program Goes University Wide
The Summer Bridge program started in the College of Engineering 20 years ago with just 11 students and has grown so much over the years that Northeastern welcomed its inaugural university-wide Summer Bridge program this year.
Aug 04, 2022
Developing High-Performance System to Harvest Solar and Thermal Energy
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng, in collaboration with Faraday Technology Inc., received a $150k research grant from the U.S. Air Force to create “Concentric Ultra-Dark Solar-Thermal Absorber and Metasurface Thermal Emitter for Thermophotovoltaic Power Conversion.”
Aug 02, 2022
Wang’s Research Paper Receives Honorary Mention at ICLR 2022 Workshop
ECE Associate Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded an Honorary Mention for his paper “Coarsening the Granularity: Towards Structurally Sparse Lottery Tickets” at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022) […]
Jul 28, 2022
Revolutionizing the Tissue Repair Process
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti and mechanical engineering alum Jeff Paten, PhD’14, created the spinoff company BrilliantStrings Therapeutics to develop a new process to repair soft tissue.
Jul 27, 2022
Ganguly Quoted in Two Newsweek Articles
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly was quoted in two Newsweek articles about the increased droughts that have caused water levels to drop in Lake Mead and Lake Wilson. Locally, Ganguly was […]
Jul 27, 2022
Alum Evan Kodra Is Driven To Make a Difference
Evan Kodra, PhD’14, interdisciplinary engineering, co-founded risQ, a startup that factors the impacts of climate change and social equity into municipal investment decisions. With its success, he also established a graduate fellowship for future climate-change researchers at Northeastern’s College of Engineering.
Jul 25, 2022
Expert: As Climate Change Continues, Heat Waves and Power Outages Will Too
From Acton to Falmouth to Boston, the seven-day heat wave saw a flurry of power outages. “Basically, what happens, the network gets overloaded,” explained Dr. Ozlem Ergun, a Professor of […]