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Nov 20, 2013
A sustainable breeding ground for collaboration
A complex structure the size of a shoebox perched on a table’s edge in Curry Student Center Ballroom on Monday evening. The 3-D printed construction resembled a series of tiny, […]
Nov 20, 2013
A better motor for the Mars Rover
In the world of robotics, identifying actuators that are strong and compact is probably one of the most important open technological problems yet to be resolved. More often than not, […]
Nov 18, 2013
Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei’s research paper reaches top 10 downloaded articles in JOSA B
Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei and colleagues’ research paper reaches the top ten downloaded articles in JOSA B. The paper focused on Metasurfaces Nanoantennas for Light Processing.
Nov 06, 2013
Hey, bacteria are individuals too
Each person carries 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells, the former of which have continued to evolve in response to medicine’s most potent antibiotics. But microscopic bugs […]
Nov 05, 2013
A soda explosion of knowledge
To explain the concept of nanotechnology to a group of high school students, Thomas Webster, professor and chair of Northeastern’s Department of Chemical Engineering, pulled out a pack of Mentos. And […]
Nov 04, 2013
Harris Given Lee Hsun Award
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemical Engineering Professor Vincent Harris was honored by the Institute of Metal Research with the Lee Hsun Lecture Award, for his significant contributions to the field of […]
Nov 01, 2013
SWE Team Wins SME Bowl
Congratulations to Elise Zimmerman, Jenna Hormann, Maureen McCaffrey, & Annahid Dastgheib-Beheshti who won the Subject Matter Expert (SME) Bowl at this year’s National Society of Women Engineers (SWE) conference. SWE's […]
Nov 01, 2013
Earth-based startup gets a boost from space
Two weeks after being named a finalist in MassChallenge, the world’s largest venture accelerator, Northeastern spinoff Quad Technologies has been selected to receive a $45,000 award from the Center for the Advancement […]