News
Aug 23, 2012
A new kind of pub crawl
Websites like Facebook, LinkedIn and other social-media networks contain massive amounts of valuable public information. Automated web tools called web crawlers sift through these sites, pulling out information on millions […]
Aug 20, 2012
Alumni have their hands in space
As a kid, Liz Duffy E ’11 wanted to be an astronaut. Megan Richardson E ’10, on the other hand, was more interested in robots. Today they are both working […]
Aug 20, 2012
Strumming on the nano-banjo
When you pluck a banjo string, you trigger a vibration that resonates at a frequency unique to the geometry and material of the string. We can distinguish that frequency as […]
Aug 13, 2012
Summer in the engineering lab
More than 20 undergraduate students from eight colleges and universities throughout the country presented a host of innovative research projects on Thursday afternoon at Northeastern University. The projects, ranging from […]
Aug 10, 2012
New Research Grant on Offshore Wind Farms
CEE Assistant Professor Andrew Myers,Professor & Chair Jerry Hajjar, and Sanjay Arwade, Associate Professor at UMass Amherst, have received a new $325K research grant from NSF on Reliability-based Hurricane Risk Assessment for Offshore Wind Farms.
Aug 08, 2012
Fat for better drug function
Scientists have long known that food digestion affects the way the body absorbs various compounds—from nutrients to drugs and toxins. “You can get multiple hundreds of percent improvement in bioavailability if […]
Aug 07, 2012
Carrier Awarded $430K Grant
Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Rebecca Carrier received a $430K grant from NIH to determine the “Impact of Lipids on Intestinal Mucus Transport and Structural Properties”. The National Institutes of Health […]
Aug 06, 2012
Congratulations Ming Wood
MIE middler Ming Wood was selected as the recipient of the $2500 Robert L. Peaslee-Detroit Brazing and Soldering Scholarship which will be presented at the AWS conference in Las Vegas. […]