News
Sep 16, 2020
Third COE Startup Acquired in Three Years
The Northeastern Spinout, Flaskworks, founded by former ChE Professor Shashi Murthy, was acquired in August by Northwest Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company specializing in personalized immune therapies, for approximately $4.33 million.
Sep 16, 2020
Could Breathalyzers Make Covid Testing Quicker and Easier?
ECE Professor Nian Sun was featured in the Wired.com article “Could Breathalyzers Make Covid Testing Quicker and Easier?” for his efforts in using breathalyzer like devices to detect viral particles.
Sep 16, 2020
Using a Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Cluster to Support Exploration at Scale
ECE Professor David Kaeli and Assistant Professors Yanzhi Wang, Xue Lin, and Devesh Tiwari were awarded a $570K NSF grant for the “Acquisition of a Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Cluster to Support Exploration at Scale.”
Sep 16, 2020
Monitoring Outbreaks of COVID in the Sewage
CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto is screening the city of Somerville, MA’s wastewater to gauge whether COVID-19 cases are increasing or decreasing.
Sep 14, 2020
ChE Graduate Student Jiaming Xu Now Published in AIChE Journal
ChE PhD Graduate Student Jiaming Xu co-authored a paper with ChE Associate Professor Francisco Hung and Associate Professor Steve Lustig titled “Power generation from waste heat: Ionic liquid‐based absorption cycle versus organic Rankine cycle” which was published in the AIChE Journal.
Sep 14, 2020
Caracoglia Selected as ASCE Fellow
CEE Professor Luca Caracoglia was selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers for his contributions in research, education, and outreach in the areas of structural engineering, structural dynamics, probabilistic mechanics, wind engineering and wind energy.
Sep 14, 2020
Bencherif Lab Receives NSF I-Corps Teams Award
The Bencherif lab received a $50K NSF award for “Oxygen-controlling Cryogels for Cell Culture Applications” to participate in the national NSF Innovation Corps Teams program.
Sep 11, 2020
MIE PhD Candidate Criss Zhang co-hosted the 2020 AtC-AtG International Magnetics Conference
MIE PhD Candidate Criss (Xiaoyu) Zhang served on the Program Committee and helped run the 2020 Around-the-Clock Around-the-Globe (AtC-AtG) Magnetics Conference, a brand-new virtual international conference powered by the IEEE Magnetics Society.