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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 […]
Nov 20, 2013
A sustainable breeding ground for collaboration
A complex structure the size of a shoebox perched on a table’s edge in Curry Student Center Ballroom on Monday evening. The 3-D printed construction resembled a series of tiny, hauntingly bare trees with inimical spikes for branches. Architecture professor Jane Amidon explained that students in the Design for Sustainable Urban Environments program created the model and others […]
Oct 17, 2013
Northeastern startup named finalist in global competition
On their first day of graduate school at Northeastern, Sean Kevlahan told Adam Hatch of his ambitious vision: Hatch would invent something amazing, and Kevlahan would help him sell it. Four years later, their biotechnology startup Quad Technologies has made it to the final round of the prestigious 2013 MassChallenge, an annual global startup competition […]
Sep 12, 2013
Student Wins Travel Grant
Bioengineering PhD student David Walsh won a prestigious travel grant to attend the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting to present his work on designing microfluidic systems to diagnose disease of the eye. The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is the professional society for biomedical engineering and bioengineering.Founded in early 1968, the Society now boasts nearly 6,500 […]
Jul 26, 2013
Young scholars get a taste for science in the summer
Twenty-four high school students listened intently as civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Matthew Eckelman presented his research on modeling the energy inputs and outputs of commercial products and processes. At the end of the lecture, Eckelman revealed a surprising fact. “Seventeen years ago I was where you are now,” he told the students, who gathered in […]
Jul 19, 2013
A green, inexpensive solution to groundwater contamination
Trichloroethylene—a degreasing agent frequently used for military and industrial applications—has seeped into groundwater around the world, with serious health consequences. Scientists have thus far had little success in reducing the widespread contamination of trichloroethylene through bioremediation, chemical reduction, and oxidation. But now three Northeastern researchers—members of one of Northeastern’s federally-funded research centers—are developing an electrochemical […]
Jul 11, 2013
ISACA Scholarship Winners
M.S. Information Sciences students Lujaen Basri and Nishant Gour won first and third place, respectively, at the 2013 H. Peet Raap Memorial Scholarship for their knowledge of the practice of Information Systems Auditing and the field of Governance, Risk and Compliance. ISACA engages in the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems. […]
Jun 10, 2013
Students dial in on emergency communications
When the south tower of Manhattan’s World Trade Center collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, emergency responders outside the building ordered the firefighters within to evacuate. Many did not receive the message. As is often the case in emergency situations, the communication took place almost entirely over radio waves. According to the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, […]