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Mar 17, 2014
Real development starts at home
Growing up in Mali, Mohamed Kante saw many Western aid workers come and go. “The minute they leave, the people on the ground think they can’t keep it going without the […]
Mar 14, 2014
Northeastern ECE Professor and Chair Sheila S. Hemami presents Professor José Moura with the Distinguished Speaker Seminar plaque
Professor José M. F. Moura delivered the latest ECE Distinguished Speaker Series seminar on March 14 at Northeastern. The lecture, "The Data Deluge – the End of Theory?” drew examples […]
Mar 12, 2014
Carol Livermore integrates origami into tissue engineering
Carol Livermore, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Engineering tissue to create livers and other human organs for transplant is a fast-growing field in biotechnology. To overcome one of […]
Mar 05, 2014
Nano-scale Templating
MIE Assistant Professor Marilyn Minus was awarded a $400K NSF CAREER grant to develop a new manufacturing process to control polymer molecular alignment in nano-composite materials. Dr. Minus' research focuses […]
Mar 03, 2014
Multipurpose Nanocrystals
ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster was featured in the Boston Herald for his use of nanocrystals to fix everything from potholes to cancer cells.
Mar 03, 2014
Face value
Facebook is home to nearly 3 billion photos. Every minute, YouTube grows by another 100 hours of video. And, according to IHS Research, some 30 million surveillance cameras pepper our public spaces, […]
Feb 24, 2014
A VAST solution for airport security
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a terrorist or a two-year-old who’s been separated from her parents at the airport: if you cause a disturbance in the flow of airport traffic, […]
Feb 24, 2014
Northeastern breaks ground on state-of-the-art science and engineering complex
Members of Northeastern & the Boston community were present for the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex groundbreaking ceremony.