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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.
Apr 02, 2025
AI Modeling Technology To Accelerate Cancer Diagnoses
Northeastern researchers, including BioE Assistant Research Professor Saeed Amal, are partnering with Santovia Path AI and Prima CARE to develop AI modeling tools to speed up the cancer diagnosis process. The research is based on AI technology created by Amal to assist in diagnosing various forms of breast and prostate cancers.
Apr 02, 2025
Stubbins Leads $1.3M NSF Grant To Investigate Plastics’ Role in Ocean Carbon Cycle
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins, in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire and the Sea Education Association, is leading a $1,319,273 NSF grant for “Nutrient-Mediated Interactions Between Plastic-Derived Dissolved Organic Carbon and the Biological Carbon Pump.”
Apr 01, 2025
Joy Inducted Into the 2025 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
Abraham Joy, BioE professor and chair, has been inducted into the 2025 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows “for seminal innovations in the design, fabrication and translation of synthetic biomimetic biomaterials into novel therapeutic and diagnostic medical products.”
Mar 31, 2025
ChE PhD Student To Receive 2025 Kokes Award
Colin Gallagher, PhD’27, chemical engineering, who works in ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao’s lab, was awarded a 2025 Kokes Award, which he will receive at the 29th North American Catalysis Society Meeting (NAM29), to be held in Atlanta, Georgia in June