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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.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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 […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

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 […]

Chemical Engineering

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 […]

Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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 […]

Chemical Engineering

Oct 31, 2013

From Classroom to Business: 3Qs with 3-​​Spark

Pitching your busi­ness to U.S. Sen. Eliz­a­beth Warren is no easy feat, but it helps when you’ve prac­ticed your ele­vator pitch a number of times before­hand, says North­eastern alumnus and […]

Oct 30, 2013

Congratulations PES Scholars

ECE students Alyssa Bezreh, Neel Shah, & Sahil Maripuri were selected as 2013/14 PES Scholarship Plus recipients which supports students interested in the power and energy industry. In 2013-14 academic […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering