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Jul 31, 2014
Northeastern Engineering announces 8 Young Investigator Awards in 2013-2014
These faculty recognitions bring the total young investigator awards in the college to 39, including 25 NSF CAREER and 10 DOD Young Investigator awards.
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Jul 29, 2014
Preparing Titania Nanotubes
ChE Professor Ron Willey was awarded a patent for his method of creating “Titania nanotubes prepared by anodization in chloride-containing electrolytes”.
Jul 29, 2014
Nanoscale Templating
MIE’s Ahmed Busnaina, Moneesh Upmanyu, & Sivasubramanian Somu were awarded a patent for “Highly organized single-walled carbon nanotube networks and method of making using template guided fluidic assembly”
Jul 28, 2014
Nanoscale Cover Feature
ChE professor Hicham Fenniri’s research on “Chiromers: conformation-driven mirror-image supramolecular chirality isomerism identified in a new class of helical rosette nanotubes” was featured on the cover Nanoscale.
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Jul 28, 2014
Tracking Sperm Whales
ECE associate professor Purnima Ratilal is using underwater acoustic methods to get the first high-resolution data localizing sperm whales in continental shelf waters off the coast of New England.
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Jul 23, 2014
Inside the NASA Langley Research Center
ME student Craig Schmidt, Jr. explains the awesome experiences he is having participating in a NASA internship.
Jul 22, 2014
Interdisciplinary NSF Grant
Electrical & Computer Engineering Associate Professor Jennifer Dy, Civil & Environmental Engineering Associate Professor Auroop Ganguly & Affiliated Assistant Professor Tarik Gouhier were awarded an $1.2M NSF Cyber SEES grant to study changes in marine organisms based on ocean temperature. The Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES) program aims to advance interdisciplinary research in […]
Jul 17, 2014
Early Disease Detection
EE Alum Asanterabi Malima, PhD’13, was presented with an Entrepreneurial Award by Gov. Deval Patrick for founding Biolom and developing a device that enables early, low-cost disease detection.