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Oct 28, 2025
Woolston Receives SIMB Early Career Award
ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston received a Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Early Career Award.
Oct 27, 2025
Helping Communities Impacted by the Climate Crisis
Raiana Sumpter, E’27, environmental engineering, cares deeply about two things: protecting vulnerable communities from climate change and building a more sustainable future for everyone. Through her classes and work experience, she has contributed to projects that address these challenges. She hopes to continue working on sustainable solutions in engineering.
Oct 27, 2025
Studying Robotics Through Powerful Research
Zhexin Xu, MS’25, robotics, pursued a master’s degree to explore a subject that has always intrigued him. Xu has fed his curiosity by participating in enthralling, specified research at Northeastern where he has been able to grow his knowledge of robotics and strengthen his skill set.
Oct 24, 2025
Methane-based straws have lower environmental impact than paper, study finds
ChE Assistant Professor Bryan James was featured in the Packaging Insights article “Methane-based straws have lower environmental impact than paper, study finds.”
Oct 24, 2025
When Variant Proteins Aren’t Actually the Variant Ones
The bioRxiv preprint of BioE Professor Nikolai Slavov’s research group on “Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals” was featured in the Science article “When Variant Proteins Aren’t Actually the Variant Ones.”
Oct 22, 2025
SpaceX and NASA Partnership Makes Positive Progress in Aerospace Industry
ECE Professor Taskin Padir talks about NASA’s partnership with SpaceX and how it will positively progress NASA’s research and help advance technology in the aerospace industry.
Oct 22, 2025
Hot Drought of Summer 2023 in Southwestern North America
Roux Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow Somnath Mondal’s research on “Hot Drought of Summer 2023 in Southwestern North America,” which was published in Geophysical Research Letters, was featured on American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Phys.org.
Oct 22, 2025
Dual Grants Totaling $1M Secured to Advance AI Safety Research
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi was selected as the single PI for two competitive research grants from Open Philanthropy totaling $1.02 million to advance her AI safety research.