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Jan 06, 2014

Patterson Awarded Grant

Professor Mark Patterson, an affiliate of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the College of Science, was awarded a $291K grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to determine how […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dec 23, 2013

Analyzing Security Fraud: Target’s security breach

Last week, the retail giant Target expe­ri­enced an unprece­dented data secu­rity breach and the debit and credit card infor­ma­tion of up to 40 mil­lion accounts was stolen. The cause of […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dec 18, 2013

Vittoria awarded NSF grant

Professor Carmine Vittoria was awarded a $78K NSF Eager grant to explore Magneto-Electric Hexaferrite Thin film Devices.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dec 17, 2013

Ligament Nanomedicine: New ways to treat injuries like Gronk’s

New Eng­land Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski tore both his ante­rior cru­ciate lig­a­ment and medial col­lat­eral lig­a­ments in a game two weeks ago after a defender’s jar­ring hit to his leg. The cur­rent […]

Chemical Engineering

Dec 16, 2013

Thank You NU Epsilon Zeta

The NU Epsilon Zeta chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity presented a check to the Center for STEM Education to support enrichment programs for middle & high school students. […]

Dec 11, 2013

Kim Receives 2 Honors

Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yong-Bin Kim received a best paper award at the International Soc Design Conference and was appointed an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dec 10, 2013

The (second) life of an inventor

Con­stan­tinos Mavroidis hasn’t always been an inventor. “It was the spirit that already exists at North­eastern that got me started,” he said. When the Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor of Mechan­ical and Indus­trial Engi­neering came to North­eastern […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 04, 2013

Are plastics the new natural gas?

Yiannis Lev­endis, Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Mechan­ical and Indus­trial Engi­neering at North­eastern, keeps a pho­to­graph of a burning plastic foam cup tacked to the wall above his desk. Thick black smoke emanates from the […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering