News
Aug 11, 2021
Northeastern Wins $10 Million NSF Grant to Boost People of Color and Women in Engineering Nationally
Northeastern’s College of Engineering won a prestigious NSF $10 million five-year grant, Engineering PLUS (Partnerships Launching Underrepresented Students) Alliance, to build a system and a network to increase engineering degrees among women and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color) nationally. Karl Reid, Northeastern University’s Chief Diversity Office, is PI, and Michael Silevitch, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, ECE, Claire Duggan, director of STEM programs and operations, COE, and Richard Harris, assistant dean for Academic Scholarship, Mentoring, and Outreach and director of NU Program in Multicultural Engineering, COE, are co-PIs, as well as Karen Horting of the Society of Women Engineers.
Aug 10, 2021
Spin Out Company from ECE Lab Receives NSF SBIR Phase I Funding
ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang is co-founder of a startup company CoCoPIE, LLC that was awarded a $250K Small Business Innovation Research Phase I NSF grant for “Enabling Real-Time AI on End Devices through Compression-Compilation Co-Design.”
Aug 10, 2021
Addressing Future Distribution Systems Challenges
ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a $380K NSF grant for designing “A Comprehensive Approach to Monitoring Active Distribution Systems.”
Aug 09, 2021
Understanding the Global Chip Shortage, a Big Crisis Involving Tiny Components
ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi was featured in the Popular Science article “Understanding the global chip shortage, a big crisis involving tiny components.”
Aug 09, 2021
Undergraduate Student in Bencherif Lab Wins Honors Early Research Award
Joyce Shen, S’23, a third-year biochemistry undergraduate student in the Bencherif Lab, was recently awarded an Honors Early Research Award for her work on the project “Engineering Polyester-coated Nanoparticles for Extended Oxygen Release.”
Aug 08, 2021
Civil Engineering PhD Student Featured in the Boston Globe
Civil engineering PhD student Max Rome was featured in the Boston Globe article, “Abundant Plant Growth on Floating Wetland Helps Battle the ‘Dirty Water Stigma’.”
Aug 06, 2021
Chemical Modeling with a Sense of Touch
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in Nature’s article “Chemical modeling with a sense of touch.”
Aug 06, 2021
Northeastern Receives Rare Designation by FCC as Spectrum Innovation Zone
Northeastern University has been given the rare designation by the FCC as a Spectrum Innovation Zone, which will allow for opportunities to build the next generation of wireless technology. It is the fourth such hub in the U.S. and the first to enable experimentation for wireless communications and sensing technologies above 100 gigahertz, including a frequency band that is crucial for the development of 6G technologies.