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Apr 07, 2025
ChE PhD Student’s Research Featured on ChemPhysChem Cover
Chengyu Zhou, PhD’ 28, chemical engineering, co-authored a paper with ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao titled “Revealing Mechanisms of Lithium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction Reaction From First-Principles Simulations,” which was featured on the cover of ChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 7.
Apr 07, 2025
Announcing Hongfei Lin as the Arthur W. Zafiropoulo Professor of Chemical Engineering
Hongfei Lin, who has dedicated his professional career to advancing sustainable energy systems, is joining Northeastern in July 2025 as the Arthur W. Zafiropoulo professor of chemical engineering.
Apr 04, 2025
A Journey of Interdisciplinary Research Experiences
Matthew Coughlin, E’25, mechanical engineering, gained extensive research experience in thermofluids in a lab at Northeastern, with three summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates, and on co-op. He was nominated for the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship and received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award.
Apr 03, 2025
Report on Strategic Engineering for Next-Gen Wireless Competitiveness
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, who is co-director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern, co-organized the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) visioning event that led to the report, “Strategic Engineering for Next-Generation Wireless Competitiveness.”
Apr 03, 2025
Affinity Student Groups 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to engineering affinity student groups at the 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The participating groups included SHPE, SWE, BESS, and SASE.
Apr 03, 2025
Making Wireless Signals More Resistant to Interference
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang were awarded a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting Radios’ ReSilience to Interference by Harnessing Magnon-Phonon Coupling In the First ElectromechanicaL SpinPhonic Devices (SHIELD).” They are enhancing a wireless transceiver’s resilience against electromagnetic interference in the 5G and 6G realms in order to transmit data at extremely high rates.
Apr 02, 2025
Drug Delivery Using Cationic Exosomes To Treat Osteoarthritis
Tanvi Vinod Pathrikar, PhD’24, bioengineering, who worked in BioE Associate Professor Ambika Bajpayee’s lab, published “Cartilage-targeting Exosomes for Delivery of Receptor Antagonist of Interleukin-1 in Osteoarthritis treatment” in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.
Apr 02, 2025
Advanced Battery Modeling Framework Featured on Cover of Energy & Environmental Science
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu’s research, “A Microstructural Electrochemo-Mechanical Model of High-Nickel Composite Electrodes Towards Digital Twins To Bridge the Particle and Electrode-Level Characterizations,” was featured on the back cover of Energy & Environmental Science.