News
Mar 11, 2013
Webster is Keynote Speaker
Chemical Engineering professor & chair of department Thomas Webster will be the keynote speaker at the NSF sponsored Columbia-US workshop on Nanotechnology in Energy and Medical Applications. The objectives of the workshop are: to explore common themes in the use of nanotechnology in energy and medicine through an interactive workshop; to cultivate research networks by facilitating planning meetings among […]
Mar 05, 2013
Andrew Childs Wins Compass Award
CEE BS/MS student, Andrew Childs, will receive one of nine 2013 Compass Awards which is given to the NU seniors whom show the most leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern.
Mar 05, 2013
3Qs: The rules of cyber-engagement
The Obama administration is close to approving the nation’s first set of rules for how the military can defend or retaliate against a major cyberattack, according to a report last month in The New York Times. One such new rule would reportedly give the president power to order a pre-emptive strike if the U.S. detects […]
Mar 04, 2013
A Step Closer to Cloaking
ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei is developing a method to incorporate active electronic circuits into metamaterials to prevent frequency bandwidth problems. Source: News @ Northeastern A couple years ago, researchers introduced a new material that they said could make any object invisible to both radar and the human eye. Invisibility cloaking would have a major […]
Feb 25, 2013
Congratulations Joseph Hollman
ECE PhD student Joseph Hollmann won an NSF East-Asia Pacific Summer Institute fellowship in which he will be working on computational modeling of light propagation in random media. View the full release here. NSF and selected foreign counterpart science and technology agencies sponsor international research institutes for U.S. graduate students in seven East Asia and Pacific locations […]
Feb 25, 2013
Congratulations Sarah Brown
Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Sarah Brown was awarded the Mike Shinn Distinguished Member of the Year award for her excellent scholastic performance and her dedicated service to NSBE. The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), is a nonprofit organization that is owned and managed by its members. With more than 30,000 members around the world, […]
Feb 20, 2013
Harris Selected as Fellow
Assistant Dean Richard Harris will be inducted in April as a Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences for his extraordinary scientific accomplishments and service to the science community and the public. Each year, the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences honors distinguished individuals through its Fellows Program. The awardees constitute a select and prestigious community of […]
Feb 19, 2013
Professor Matthias Ruth hosts symposium at AAAS
Professor Matthias Ruth, who holds appointments in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, hosted a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science focusing on how environmental changes will affect water.