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Jan 14, 2014
3Qs: Could circuits’ face-lift mean faster, smaller phones?
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun has developed a method for RF circuits to be tunable on both the capacitor & inductor side, allowing for smaller cell phones and longer battery […]
Jan 13, 2014
Murthy to Select Features
Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Shashi Murthy was appointed as a member of the Features Advisory Panel for the American Chemical Society’s journal Analytical Chemistry. Dr. Murthy joined Northeastern faculty in 2005 […]
Jan 13, 2014
Webster Selected Fellow
Chemical Engineering professor and Chair of department Thomas Webster was selected as a Fellow of the Ernst Strüngmann Forum, which is dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary communication and research. The Ernst […]
Jan 07, 2014
Professor Dagmar Sternad Gives 2013 Arthur Iberall Distinguished Lecture on Life and the Sciences of Complexity at University of Connecticut
Dr. Dagmar Sternad, Professor of Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics, gave the 2013 Arthur Iberall Distinguished Lecture on Life and the Sciences of Complexity at the University of […]
Jan 07, 2014
Professor emeritus honored for engineering education career
Electrical engineering professor emeritus John Proakis has received nearly a dozen awards and academic honors in his time, but he considers his most recent one the defining achievement of his […]
Jan 07, 2014
Smart bike pedals toward accident prevention
Every day, about two people in the U.S. succumb to fatal cycling accidents while more than 130 suffer harmful injuries. But in an era of increasing concern for the environment, […]
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 […]
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 […]