News
Dec 17, 2019
ECE Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM
ECE PhD students Kai Li, Ufuk Muncuk, Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi, and Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded the best paper award at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 conference for their paper “SoftSense: Collaborative Surface-based Object Sensing and Tracking Using Networked Coils”.
Dec 16, 2019
Bencherif Lab Receives ACORN Award
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif recently received a 2020 ACORN Innovation Award from The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center for his project entitled “Hypoxia-inducing cryogels as a fast and inexpensive technology for hypoxic cell culture conditions”.
Dec 16, 2019
NU Team to Compete in 2020 Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge
Congratulations to the Northeastern team, advised by ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir, who was one of ten teams selected as finalists for the NASA 2020 RASC-AL Special Edition: Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge.
Dec 13, 2019
Compressible Cryogels to Target Diseased Cells
ChE Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif created a sponge-like gel that can be injected under the skin to provide medication or target certain immune cells.
Dec 12, 2019
Webster Awarded Patent for Bacteria-Resistant Polymers
ChE Professor Thomas Webster was awarded a patent for “nanostructured bacteria-resistant polymer materials.”
Dec 12, 2019
James Sinoimeri to Present at International Exchange with German Chemical Society (GDCh)
James Sinoimeri, E’21, will be presenting his work from ChE Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif’s lab at a highly selective international exchange program of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society, GDCh).
Dec 11, 2019
Celebrating Co-op Employer Partnership with Morphic Therapeutic
Bells were ringing at the stock exchange in New York City for Northeastern co-op employer partner Morphic Therapeutic, where our engineering and science co-op students were afforded the unique experience to visit Wall Street and ring the bell for their IPO.
Dec 09, 2019
2020 Marshall Scholar to Fix Transportation Challenges
CEE student Michael Tormey, E’20, was awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship which will allow him to study transport engineering for two years in the United Kingdom.