News
Feb 22, 2011
Measuring Interatomic Distances
ECE Professor Lee Makowski has received a $280K NIH grant to develop MADMAX, a Multi-wavelength Anomalous Diffraction using Medium Angle X-ray solution scattering, for the precise measurement of conformational changes in proteins.
Feb 22, 2011
Receiving the Highest Honor
MIE Professor James Benneyan has been awarded the Smalley President’s Award, the highest honor from the Society for Health Systems for his lifelong service to the healthcare IE profession.
Feb 17, 2011
Teaching Students Through Video Games
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has developed Geckoman!, an online video game, that teaches middle-school students about nanoscience.
Feb 16, 2011
Chory Chosen as a Pioneering Leader
Emma Chory, ChE’12, has been selected as a Steamboat Scholar. The summer program provides talented undergrads prestigious internships with Grant Partners to cultivate their leadership skills.
Feb 15, 2011
Passing Knowledge On
STEM Associate Professor Christos Zahopoulos has received the IEEE-USA Professional Achievement for Individuals Award for “sparking precollegiate interest in technology and engineering careers” through NU’s RE-SEED program.
Feb 11, 2011
Malima is CIMIT Finalist
Asanterabi Malima, a PhD in ECE, has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare for his research project “Highly Sensitive Micron Scale In-vivo Biosensor for Multiple Biomarker Detection”.
Feb 09, 2011
Factoring in Delays
MIE Assistant Professor Rifat Sipahi has developed an “intelligent” algorithm that takes into account time delays in areas such as traffic flow, supply chain management, and human biology.
Feb 07, 2011
Carrier Awarded $230K Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Rebecca Carrier received a $230K grant from NIH to development a natural matrix-based cell delivery vehicle for delivery of RPCs to the subretinal space to promote retinal regeneration.