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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 […]
May 23, 2014
Goluch Wins $770K Grant
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Edgar Goluch was awarded a $770K grant by the National Science Foundation to create a Nano-Constriction Device to automatically isolate and cultivate microbes in their own habitat. With the new device, Goluch and co-principal researcher Slava Epstein aim to develop a modern technique to cultivate microorganisms, featuring a growth chamber with a single sub-micrometer […]
May 21, 2014
Three students earn NSF graduate research fellowships
Three Northeastern University doctoral students—Allison Matzelle, Jennifer Morales, and Tanya Rogers—have been selected as 2014 recipients of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. They are among 2,000 awardees from a pool of more than 14,000 applicants to the program, which aims to help ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in […]
May 21, 2014
Can current stimulate smarts?
“I’m not yet convinced it’s going to work,” Misha Pavel, an expert in neural engineering and a professor of practice at Northeastern University, said of the possibility of applying low-level current to the scalp as a means of improving intelligence. But that skepticism has only inspired Pavel and his colleagues, including associate professor of electrical and computer […]