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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 […]
Nov 20, 2013
A better motor for the Mars Rover
In the world of robotics, identifying actuators that are strong and compact is probably one of the most important open technological problems yet to be resolved. More often than not, the mechanical elements that translate data into doing are big, rough, and generally unfriendly for use in everyday robotics, said Dinos Mavroidis, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and […]
Nov 18, 2013
Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei’s research paper reaches top 10 downloaded articles in JOSA B
Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei and colleagues’ research paper reaches the top ten downloaded articles in JOSA B. The paper focused on Metasurfaces Nanoantennas for Light Processing.
Nov 06, 2013
Hey, bacteria are individuals too
Each person carries 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells, the former of which have continued to evolve in response to medicine’s most potent antibiotics. But microscopic bugs don’t just dictate human health—they’re also integral to the health of every body of water on the planet. According to Ferdi Hellweger, an associate professor of civil […]
Nov 05, 2013
A soda explosion of knowledge
To explain the concept of nanotechnology to a group of high school students, Thomas Webster, professor and chair of Northeastern’s Department of Chemical Engineering, pulled out a pack of Mentos. And no, he wasn’t just making sure his breath was minty fresh. First, Webster showed that dropping a Mento into a soda bottle causes the sugary drink […]
Nov 04, 2013
Harris Given Lee Hsun Award
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Vincent Harris was honored by the Institute of Metal Research with the Lee Hsun Lecture Award, for his significant contributions to the field of materials science and engineering. During his visit to the Institute of Metal Research, Prof. Harris exchanged his opinions on the research fields like non-rare-earth permanent materials […]
Nov 01, 2013
SWE Team Wins SME Bowl
Congratulations to Elise Zimmerman, Jenna Hormann, Maureen McCaffrey, & Annahid Dastgheib-Beheshti who won the Subject Matter Expert (SME) Bowl at this year’s National Society of Women Engineers (SWE) conference. SWE's mission is to "stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in the […]
Nov 01, 2013
Earth-based startup gets a boost from space
Two weeks after being named a finalist in MassChallenge, the world’s largest venture accelerator, Northeastern spinoff Quad Technologies has been selected to receive a $45,000 award from the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space as part of the accelerator program’s “sidecar challenge.” Quad Technologies was one of eight startups selected by CASIS through the MassChallenge Startup Accelerator at […]