News
Jan 06, 2014
Patterson Awarded Grant
Professor Mark Patterson, an affiliate of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Science, was awarded a $291K grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to determine how environmental stresses affect the gastrovascular system in perforate and imperforate corals. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in […]
Dec 23, 2013
Analyzing Security Fraud: Target’s security breach
Last week, the retail giant Target experienced an unprecedented data security breach and the debit and credit card information of up to 40 million accounts was stolen. The cause of the security breach, one of the largest credit card breaches in U.S. history, is still under investigation. Here Engin Kirda, the Sy and Laurie Sternberg […]
Dec 18, 2013
Vittoria awarded NSF grant
Professor Carmine Vittoria was awarded a $78K NSF Eager grant to explore Magneto-Electric Hexaferrite Thin film Devices.
Dec 17, 2013
Ligament Nanomedicine: New ways to treat injuries like Gronk’s
New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski tore both his anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligaments in a game two weeks ago after a defender’s jarring hit to his leg. The current recovery period for ligament tears is often more than a year, so the injury has ended his 2013 season and could possibly affect his availability […]
Dec 16, 2013
Thank You NU Epsilon Zeta
The NU Epsilon Zeta chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity presented a check to the Center for STEM Education to support enrichment programs for middle & high school students. The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity was founded in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, by Samuel Eells (1810-1842). While founded as a literary […]
Dec 11, 2013
Kim Receives 2 Honors
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yong-Bin Kim received a best paper award at the International Soc Design Conference and was appointed an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II Journal. The International SoC Design Conference (ISOCC) aims at providing the world’s premier SoC design forum for leading researchers from academia and […]
Dec 10, 2013
The (second) life of an inventor
Constantinos Mavroidis hasn’t always been an inventor. “It was the spirit that already exists at Northeastern that got me started,” he said. When the Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering came to Northeastern from Rutgers University in 2004, he had two patents issued to his name. Today he has more than three dozen that have been approved or […]
Dec 04, 2013
Are plastics the new natural gas?
Yiannis Levendis, Distinguished Professor Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern, keeps a photograph of a burning plastic foam cup tacked to the wall above his desk. Thick black smoke emanates from the receptacle, which, subsequent pictures reveal, was reduced to a sooty powder by the end of the combustion process. The photo represents a mission for Levendis, whose […]