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Mar 14, 2025
Fighting Tumor Defenses With Engineering and Immunotherapy
BioE/Physics Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine gives the plenary lecture at the Global Summit on Mechanobiology and Mechanomedicine hosted by Northeastern’s Institute for Mechanobiology. He discusses how mechanobiology seeks to overcome the physical barriers around tumors to improve immunotherapy effectiveness.
Mar 13, 2025
AI Tool Could Improve Performance of AR/VR Glasses
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and two PhD students developed an AI tool that helps improve the performance of AR/VR applications, which could lead to less bulky and more esthetic AR/VR glasses.
Mar 13, 2025
NSF CAREER Award To Develop Stronger and More Versatile Adhesives
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai received a $650,000 NSF CAREER Award to improve the functionality of soft sticky adhesive materials so that they do not easily crack or break and can rapidly switch between adhesive and non-adhesive states.
Mar 12, 2025
Developing New Ways To Control Heat Flow
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng’s Nano Energy Laboratory, in collaboration with Mauro Antezza’s Theoretical Physics Group at the Université de Montpellier in Montpellier, France, published their research on “Flexible Tuning of Asymmetric Near-Field Radiative Thermal Transistor by Utilizing Distinct Phase-Change Materials,” as a featured article in Applied Physics Letters.
Mar 11, 2025
PhD Student Places First at AAAS 2025 Student E-Poster Competition
Aleksei Krotov, PhD’25, bioengineering, advised by COS/ECE University Distinguished Professor Dagmar Sternad, received first place in the 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting Student E-Poster Competition in the Brain and Behavior category.
Mar 10, 2025
Revolutionizing Live-Cell Research With InCu-Click
BioE Assistant Professor Sara Rouhanifard’s lab has developed InCu-Click, a breakthrough reagent that makes the powerful click chemistry technique safe for live-cell applications, opening up new possibilities in drug discovery, diagnostics, and biological research.
Mar 06, 2025
Unlocking the Secrets of Dark Matter With Graphene
ECE/COS Associate Professor Kin Chung Fong was awarded a $950,000 grant from the Department of Energy for “WIdeband graphene-based aXion dARk matter quantum Detector (WIXARD).” Fong will explore using astrophysics to gain insights into dark matter.
Mar 06, 2025
Patent for Highly Sensitive Gas Detection Technology
University Distinguished and MIE William Lincoln Smith Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded a patent for “Sensors with capacitive transduction via metamaterials for gas detection.”