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Sep 04, 2026
Northeastern Co-Op Secures Cloud Infrastructure for United Nations
Northeastern software engineering and information systems graduate student Grace Awuma completed a global co-op with the United Nations Development Program in Copenhagen, Denmark, securing data and managing global access permissions for its cloud infrastructure services team.
Sep 04, 2026
Inaugural Summer Program Connects Engineering Students to Seattle Robotics Industry
Northeastern University’s inaugural seven-week “Summer In Seattle” program gave undergraduate engineering students hands-on experience in the Pacific Northwest’s vibrant robotics ecosystem through immersive coursework, industry site visits, and simulation projects.
Sep 03, 2026
Interdisciplinary Team Receives NSF FIRE Grant to Study FireScreens for Wildfire Safety
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis, CEE Professor Luca Caracoglia, Affiliated Faculty Michelle Laboy, and MIE Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton were awarded a $1.06M NSF Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) grant for “Investigating Potential Solutions to Reduce Wildfire Risk Through Structural Hardening.”
Sep 02, 2026
Five ways 3D printing is improving lab work
ChE/COS Assistant Professors Magda Barecka was featured in the Nature article “Five ways 3D printing is improving lab work.”
Sep 02, 2026
Thermal Management Breakthroughs Developed for Extreme Space Environments
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng spent his summer collaborating with NASA engineers to develop advanced thermal management materials, including heat-harvesting cells and phase-change gels, designed to prevent battery explosions and withstand extreme space environments.
Sep 02, 2026
Bioengineering Alumna to Speak at Boston Convocation
Bioengineering alumna Samantha Johnson, E’21, MS’21, founder and CEO of Tatum Robotics, will serve as the featured alumni speaker at Northeastern University’s Boston Convocation, where she will share how her student experiences led her to develop tactile-signing robotic technology for the DeafBlind community.
Sep 02, 2026
Explainer: What El Niño’s return means for the Panama Canal — and global trade
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz was featured in the Reuters article “Explainer: What El Niño’s return means for the Panama Canal — and global trade.”
Sep 02, 2026
Multifactorial Causes of Himalaya Flood Devastation
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly explains that the catastrophic devastation from the recent flood in Nepal and Tibet was driven by a combination of natural triggers—such as a dislodged glacier chunk mixing with monsoon sediments—and human factors like land-use choices, lack of infrastructure preparedness, and high regional vulnerability.