News
Aug 21, 2020
Yeh Leads New Initiative to Build Advanced Data Ecosystems for High Energy Physics and Genomics
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh is leading an $875K two-year NSF grant multi-university research initiative for “CC* Integration-Large: N-DISE: NDN for Data Intensive Science Experiments” in collaboration with California Institute of Technology, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Tennessee Technological University.
Aug 19, 2020
Can Real-Time Microbial Monitoring Advance Microalgal Wastewater Treatment?
In a new $2M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, CEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto is collaborating with researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Buffalo, a municipality, and private industry to study the use of algae in purifying wastewater and biofuel production.
Aug 17, 2020
Research on Extracellular Matrix Making Waves for Asthma Therapy
BioE Assistant Professor Harikrishnan Parameswaran’s research on “Intercellular communication controls agonist-induced calcium oscillations independently of gap junctions in smooth muscle cells” was published in Science Advances.
Aug 17, 2020
ChE Professor and PhD Candidates Selected to Participate in MALSI+ 2020
ChE Professor Thomas Webster, PhD candidate David Medina Cruz, PhD candidate Ada Vernet Crua, and their team selected to participate in MALSI+ 2020 with one of their startups SynCell Biotechnology.
Aug 17, 2020
Murtadha Aldoukhi and Gupta Win IEOM First Place Paper Award
MIE PhD candidate Murtadha Aldoukhi and Professor Surendra M. Gupta’s paper titled “Flexible Model to Design Closed Loop Supply Chain Network Under Uncertainties” won the First Place Paper Award at the 5th North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.
Aug 14, 2020
Supporting Her Homeland of Lebanon
Engineering and Public Policy student Karen Fayad, E’19, MS’21, has been working with the Jobs for Lebanon charity to raise money to provide food and reconstruction support to help her home country of Lebanon.
Aug 13, 2020
Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes Published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research
ChE Assistant Professors Abigail Koppes and Ryan Koppes published their research in the Journal of Neuroscience titled: “The effects of low intensity focused ultrasonic stimulation on dorsal root ganglion neurons and Schwann cells in vitro.”
Aug 11, 2020
Using Augmented Reality to Train Workforce With New Methods
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam (PI), Digital Learning Assistant Vice Chancellor Kemi Jona, Khoury Professor Stacy C. Marsella, Public Policy Associate Professor Alicia Sasser Modestino, and CATLTR Associate Director Nicholas C. Wilson, in collaboration with consultant Robert Roy, Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and Microsoft HoloLens Group, were awarded a $150K NSF grant for “Training an Agile, Adaptive Workforce for the Future of Manufacturing with Intelligent Augmented Reality”.