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Dec 02, 2024
Alumnus-Founded NapSpin Aims To Reshape Restaurant Work
Mike Foley, E’17, mechanical engineering, developed and launched the startup NapSpin, which produces machines that automate rolling silverware into napkins. Now with support from Northeastern’s GAP fund, Foley hopes to expand beyond the restaurant market to hospitals, hotels, and cruise ships.
Nov 27, 2024
Reprogrammed Pig Aortic Heart Valves Create New Options for Human Transplants
BioE Professor Ning Wang coauthored “Engineering Aortic Valves via Transdifferentiating Fibroblasts Into Valvular Endothelial Cells Without Using Viruses or iPS Cells,” published in Bioactive Materials. For the research, human skin cells were reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve into a rodent.
Nov 27, 2024
Rapidly Screening for Environmental Toxins
Bouvé/CEE Assistant Professor Julia Varshavsky’s research on “Analyzing High-Throughput Assay Data To Advance the Rapid Screening of Environmental Chemicals for Human Reproductive Toxicity” was published in Reproductive Toxicology.
Nov 27, 2024
Using Exoskeletons To Increase Mobility
Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd is leading a team of graduate students, including Fatima Tourk, PhD’27, mechanical engineering, to create a battery-powered exoskeleton that is intended to assist people with mobility issues and enable complex movements without causing discomfort. He co-authored research published in Nature on a new lower-limb exoskeleton.
Nov 26, 2024
Propelling Efforts To Limit Worldwide Plastic Pollution
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins is part of a delegation involved in what could be the final round in the negotiation process for an international plastic pollution treaty that would limit plastic pollution worldwide.
Nov 26, 2024
Patent for Optimizing Content Delivery Networks
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for “System and method for joint dynamic forwarding and caching in content distribution networks.”
Nov 26, 2024
Optimizing Wireless Networks With Digital Twins
ECE Principal Research Scientist Pedram Johari and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received the Best Paper Award for “TwiNet: Connecting Real World Networks to Their Digital Twins Through a Live Bidirectional Link” at the 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference.
Nov 26, 2024
Optimizing Wireless Backhaul Networks
ECE Research Scientist Gabriele Gemmi, Assistant Research Professor Michael Polese, and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received the Best Paper Award for “Optimizing and Managing Wireless Backhaul for Resilient Next-Generation Cellular Networks” at the 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM).