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Apr 11, 2014
SREC Engineering Award
BSME student Robinson Greig was awarded the SREC Engineering Award at this year's RISE Expo for "Gather – Enhanced Short-Term Social Event Discovery and Planning". The application, "Gather", is meant to provide an easy solution for users who want to plan events and activities together with existing or new friends.
Apr 11, 2014
COE Dean's Award
ECE PhD Aida Ehyaei was awarded the COE Dean's Award at this year's RISE Expo for "A System For Gathering Data on Sleep Behavior and Context in the Home Setting".
Apr 11, 2014
Interdisciplinary Research
Jodi Belz (BioE PhD), Stacey Markovic (EE PhD), and Mark Niedre (ECE Assistant Professor) were awarded a Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Award at this year’s RISE Expo. The project, called “Localized tumor delivery of radiosensitizers and chemotherapeutics using ‘INCeRT’ implants” involves a new chemo-treatment that can potentially reduce tumors.
Apr 11, 2014
Entrepreneurship Excellence
Amir Farjadian (BioE PhD), Qingchao Kong (MIE PhD), Carlo Sartori (MIE BSMS), & Constantinos Mavroidis (MIE Prof) received an Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award at this year's RISE Expo. The $5K Entrepreneurship Award is given to the presentation that earns the highest honors during the exhibition.
Apr 11, 2014
Double Win at RISE 2014
PhD Bioengineering student David Walsh & Juliette Kassas (COS) were awarded the Excellence in Research award AND the Graduate Engineering and Technology Research award at this year's RISE 2014 Expo. The Research medal is one of the main awards given out at RISE; the other three are Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship. The Research award is […]
Apr 10, 2014
Three Northeastern students named Goldwater Scholars
Three Northeastern University students—Theo Bowe, S’16, Tushar Swamy, E/S’15, and Greg Allan, E/S’16—have been selected to receive the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. A total of 283 sophomores and juniors in the U.S. were named Goldwater Scholars for the 2014–15 academic year. Scholars were selected from a field of 1,166 math, science, and engineering students […]
Jan 27, 2014
Students Win Paper Competition
Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE) IE students Serpil Mutlu (PhD) and Rachel Miller (MS) won the 2014 Institute of Industrial Engineers graduate student healthcare paper competition for their paper "Optimizing Resident Based Teamlet Schedules to Improve Continuity in Primary Care". HSyE students seek to improve healthcare through research and engineering application methods. The Institute offers […]
Dec 02, 2013
Congratulations Radhika Barua
Radhika Barua, a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. candidate has been selected as one of two recipients of the 2013-2014 GMAG (Topical Group on Magnetism) PhD Dissertation Research Award for outstanding dissertation research in magnetism. The award includes a cash prize of $500, an additional $250 towards her travel expenses for the March meeting, and an invited talk […]