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Jun 27, 2014
Upmanyu Wins STIR Grant
MIE Associate Professor Moneesh Upmanyu's team won a $50K Short-Term Innovative Research (STIR) grant from the Army Research Office. This grant designs next-generation nanocrystalline metal alloys by engineering solute-interface interactions.
Jun 26, 2014
Solar boat team makes ‘splash’ at intercollegiate competition
Members of Northeastern’s Solar Boat club had planned to rebuild in 2014, foregoing a chance to win now in exchange for future success. Turns out, the future is now: Earlier this month, Northeastern finished second overall and was named the most improved team at the annual Solar Splash competition in Ohio. In 2013, the Northeastern team finished 10th. “This year was […]
Jun 19, 2014
Nature’s nanoantenna
In the majority of his research, Northeastern associate professor of electrical and computer engineering Hossein Mosallaei tries to develop new materials that aren’t available in nature. But in some recent work with colleagues at Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Mosallaei is looking to nature herself for the inspiration. The materials Mosallaei typically works with are […]
Jun 18, 2014
Take 5: Get to know Northeastern’s Baja SAE team
Northeastern’s chapter of Baja SAE recently completed another successful season, finishing 8th overall in the third and final competition of the year held in Illinois earlier this month. Baja SAE is an intercollegiate design and motorsport competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers, in which engineering students design, display, and race vehicles. Here, former team captain Matt Nussbaum, E’14, and incoming captain […]
Jun 11, 2014
#howmatters: ingredients for cancer drug delivery
Last week, Chobani Yogurt came out with a new ad campaign intended to promote its “all-natural” ingredients list. A series of witty messages revealed themselves each time a hungry yogurt eater popped the lid on one of their Chobani100 yogurt cups. Example: “Nature got us to 100 calories, not scientists. #howmatters.” Not surprisingly, scientists took issue with […]
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 […]