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May 12, 2025
Fungi Could Be Used To Build Homes One Day. Meet the Researchers Trying To Make It Possible
BioE Senior Research Scientist Avinash Manjula-Basavanna was quoted in the CNN article “Fungi Could Be Used To Build Homes One Day. Meet the Researchers Trying To Make it Possible.” He provided insight on a new study using living beings, such as fungi and bacteria, as construction materials.
May 12, 2025
Pivoting From Biology to Sustainable Design With an MS in Sustainable Building Systems
Dane Brimmeier, MS’ 24, sustainable building systems, switched his career path from biology to sustainable design through academics, involvement in a professional student club, and co-op which led to a contracted full-time position.
May 09, 2025
New Computational Model Enables Alloy Design for Real Materials
MIE Professor Moneesh Upmanyu’s new research paper, “Solute-drag Forces From Short-time Equilibrium Fluctuations of Crystalline Interfaces,” was selected as an Editor’s Pick by the Journal of Applied Physics. He discovered a faster, cost-efficient, and more accurate computational model for alloy design of real materials.
May 08, 2025
A New Project Is Helping Chelsea Residents Better Understand Their Air Quality
CEE/MES Associate Professor Amy Mueller was featured in the CommonWealth Beacon article “A New Project Is Helping Chelsea Residents Better Understand Their Air Quality“.
May 08, 2025
Zheng Moderates Photonics Panel at CLEO 2025
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng moderated the panel discussion, “Next-Gen Photonic Metamaterials: Innovations in Light, Heat, Devices, and AI,” at the 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), organized by the IEEE Photonics Society, OPTICA, and APS.
May 08, 2025
ECE Team Wins Best Reproducible Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2025
A research team led by Guodong Chen, PhD’29, computer engineering, won the Best Reproducible Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2025 for research on “TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression Using Volume-Tracked Reference Meshes.”
May 07, 2025
Mechanical Engineering Scholarship in Memory of James D. Arangio, E’62
The legacy of James D. Arangio, E’62, mechanical engineering, lives on through an annual scholarship for a mechanical engineering student. Arangio had a co-op at Raytheon that led to a 43-year career.
May 06, 2025
Northeastern Team Wins Grand Prize at MassRobotics Competition
A Northeastern University student team won first place at the MassRobotics Form & Function Robotics Challenge, receiving the $10,000 grand prize. They competed against 16 teams from universities across the globe.