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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 […]
Dec 02, 2013
Researchers ready for historic aquatic ‘Mission’
“Only when he can range wider, stay longer, go deeper, can man learn to utilize the incredible wealth of the sea.” In 1973, those words welcomed viewers into the unprecedented on-screen adventure of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Now, 40 years later, Northeastern researchers are teaming up with Cousteau’s grandson, Fabien, to reignite the famous oceanographer’s […]
Dec 02, 2013
Gupta: Book of the Month
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Surendra Gupta’s book “Reverse Supply Chains: Issues and Analysis” was selected as Book of the Month by Industrial Engineer Magazine. The magazine serves the diverse audience of professionals and students whose common interest is industrial engineering. Their mission is to provide useful, interesting, timely and thought-provoking content that addresses the broad spectrum […]
Nov 27, 2013
ECE Superstars win at supercomputers
When professor Dave Kaeli approached them about entering a supercomputer competition, electrical and computer engineering students Neel Shah and Tushar Swamy had zero experience in the task at hand. “I had never even built a regular computer,” said Shah, let alone a super one. But that didn’t stop them from signing up…nor from stealing the […]
Nov 25, 2013
Nickerson Awarded Scholarship
Matthew Nickerson, a Mechanical and Industrial Engineering BS/MS student, is the recipient of a $5000 James D. Arangio Scholarship. The family of James D. Arangio ’62 has established a scholarship fund in the name of their father James to benefit one deserving student with a similar passion and dedication to the field of Mechanical Engineering and […]
Nov 25, 2013
Sharrows on Steroids
Boston installs "sharrows on steroids," a new way of marking lanes shared by bikes and cars, invented by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Peter Furth. Dr. Furth received a Ph.D. degree in Transportation Systems from MIT in 1981 and his expertise areas include traffic signal control and priority, transit operations modeling and transit data collection.
Nov 21, 2013
Robotic inspectors on disaster duty
In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake in Japan initiated a tsunami that wreaked havoc across the coast of the island nation. The most infamous damage occurred when the Fukushima Daichii nuclear power plant suffered serious equipment failures, which led to the second largest nuclear disaster in history. In the aftermath, inspection and repair crews faced severe […]
Nov 21, 2013
To treat cancer, is the force strong with nanorobots?
Every day, more than 20,000 people around the world succumb to cancer, according to statistics compiled by the World Health Organization. Thousands more continue to suffer through treatment and its side effects. Since the drugs used to kill cancer cells are just as toxic to neighboring healthy cells, researchers have long coveted a drug delivery method […]