News
Jun 09, 2014
Overcoming the Odds
Computer Engineering PhD student William Tomlinson was featured in ASEE Prism for the struggles he encountered in his educational career.
Jun 09, 2014
Erb and Minus Awarded EAGER Grant
MIE Assistant Professors Randall Erb & Marilyn Minus were awarded a $135K NSF EAGER grant to fabricate and disperse suspensions of colloidally-assembled hierarchical ceramic fillers for discontinuous fiber composite materials
Jun 09, 2014
Professor to lead U.S. biomaterials research society
Thomas Webster, professor and chair of Northeastern’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has been named president of the U.S. Society for Biomaterials. The 3,000-plus-member organization is the nation’s leading multidisciplinary society of academic, healthcare, government, and business professionals dedicated to promoting advancements in all aspects of biomaterials science, education, and professional standards to enhance human health and quality […]
Jun 03, 2014
Engineering ideas to help people in need
The newly formed student group Enabling Engineering uses engineering principles to design and build projects to help individuals with disabilities.
Jun 02, 2014
Fu Receives DURIP Award
ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu received a highly competitive $240K DOD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Research Equipment award for major equipment for his SMILE lab.
Jun 02, 2014
Northeastern Awarded NIH Grant to Study Links Between Contaminants, Preterm Birth
Northeastern University has received a five-year, $13.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health to continue its interdisciplinary investigation into the complex relationship between environmental contamination and preterm birth. The multi-university research team previously received a $10 million NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Superfund Research Program grant in 2010 to establish the Puerto Rico Testsite for […]
May 30, 2014
Student project targets memory impairment
People with memory-impairing diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, are not only losing their memories—they’re also losing their independence. And as memory loss worsens, they rely may more on others to help them with daily tasks. For a senior capstone project, a team of Northeastern University engineering students sought a way to help, knowing that more than 15 million Americans […]
May 23, 2014
Dissertation Fellowship Winner
Chemical Engineering PhD student Noreen Rizvi was awarded an American Association of University Women’s American Dissertation Fellowship. Rizvi is part of Northeastern Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons' research group. She will be supported by the AAUW program as she completes her dissertation, which is based on Metabolic Engineering. Other well-known recipients of American Fellowships in the past include Susan […]