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Oct 23, 2017

A New Way to Fight ‘Superbugs’

ChE PhD student Ben Geilich is using nanoparticles to improve an antibiotics ability to treat infections. Source: Northeastern Magazine Northeastern doctoral graduate Ben Geilich cheerfully admits that he loves studying […]

Chemical Engineering

Oct 23, 2017

Prof. Webster to give talk at web conference "Frontiers of Applied Microbiology" Tuesday, Oct. 24th

Prof. Thomas J. Webster will give a talk at the web conference “Frontiers in Applied Microbiolgy” entitled “The Age of Nanobiotics: Killing Bacteria with Nanotechnology and without Antibiotics”.

Chemical Engineering

Oct 20, 2017

Human-Robot Friendship

Murphy Wonsick, PhD’20—Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to complete dangerous tasks in space. In fact, she’s working on one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots to exist—Northeastern’s NASA robot Valkyrie—under the direction of Taskin Padir, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oct 20, 2017

Human-Robot Friendship

Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oct 19, 2017

Prof. Coury Gives Talk at University of California, Riverside

ChE Professor Art Coury gave a talk at the University of California, Riverside yesterday as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series Presentation to Biomedical Engineering Department. Coury's talk is entitled, "Perspectives […]

Chemical Engineering

Oct 18, 2017

Easy ‘Friending’ Startup

Jay Shome and Andrew Smith, BS, Computer Engineering, 2018—“Friending made easy.” That’s the motto of FriendsUp, a new app enabling users to share contact information and connect via Snapchat, Facebook, […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oct 18, 2017

Reengineering Scholarship Opportunities

ME alum Joseph Alim and student Tuan Ho have created the startup ScholarJet which enables high school students to participate in company-sponsored challenges such as creating 3-D models, running marathons, or developing apps to finance their college education.

Oct 18, 2017

Easy ‘Friending’ Startup

Computer Engineering students Jay Shome and Andrew Smith developed the app FriendsUp to share and connect to multiple social accounts at once.

Electrical & Computer Engineering