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Sep 05, 2024
Creating International Deep Tech Partnerships
ECE Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation David Horsley, in collaboration with Innovation Impact International, was awarded a $299,898 NSF EAGER grant for “Catalyzing Deep Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship via International Partnerships.”
Sep 05, 2024
A Bio-Inspired Approach to Material Design
MIE Postdoctoral Research Associate Richard Nash, PhD’23, and Associate Professor Yaning Li published their research, “On-demand Auxeticity and Co-existing Pre-tension Induced Compression Stage in a Sandwich Design With Kinematically Constrained 3D Suture Tiles,” in Nature Communications.
Sep 05, 2024
Testing Well Water To Help Owners Manage Water Quality
Kyla Drewry, PhD’25, civil and environmental engineering, under the guidance of CEE Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper, led a team of PhD students on a research trip to North Carolina where they tested private well water. One in four residents using private wells in that region is faced with contamination issues.
Sep 04, 2024
New Modeling for Intestinal Health
Research conducted by Kyla Kaiser, PhD’24, chemical engineering, Jessica Snyder, PhD’23, bioengineering, ChE Associate Professors Ryan Koppes, and Abigail Koppes on “A Pumpless, High-Throughput Microphysiological System To Mimic Enteric Innervation of Duodenal Epithelium and the Impact on Barrier Function” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Sep 03, 2024
$1.2M DARPA Grant To Enhance Security of Mixed Reality Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani was awarded a $1.2 million DARPA grant for “VeriPro: Verified Probabilistic Cognitive Reasoning for Tactical Mixed Reality Systems.” This multidisciplinary effort includes partners from Penn State University (lead), Design Interactive Inc., Kennesaw State University, George Washington University, and the University of Southern California.
Sep 03, 2024
Undergraduate Students Publish Research at 2024 IEEE MIT URTC
Ise Okhiria, KCS ’25, and Alyssa Lee, S ’25, who are recipients of the Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards and advised by CEE/Khoury Assistant Professor Fatemeh Ghoreishi, will present the results of their project in a publication at the 2024 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC).
Sep 03, 2024
Alpha Fund Award for Pioneering Innovation With Finder @ Social
Surya Sai Brahmendra Ramoju, MS’24, data analytics engineering, received the Alpha Fund Award from Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education for his commitment to fostering transformative change in the digital sphere as founder of Finder @ Social.
Aug 30, 2024
The Necessary Risks of Space Exploration
ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh says the stranding of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the International Space Station reflects the inevitable risks of space travel that are necessary to endure to learn more about the universe.