News
Feb 01, 2010
Lin Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
Yingzi Lin, Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, has received a $400K NSF CAREER for “Bridging Cognitive Science and Sensor Technology: Non-intrusive and Multi-modality Sensing in Human-Machine Interactions”.
Jan 28, 2010
Sheahan’s NIH Grant Renewed
CIV professor and acting chair Thomas Sheahan, has had his NIH grant renewed for his research on creating a reactive mat to remediate contaminated sediments and reduce health risks.
Jan 28, 2010
Developing Images Faster
ECE Professors Miriam Leeser and David Kaeli have created a method to develop medical images 10 to 1000x faster than current technology using 3D video graphics, which will lead to faster diagnoses.
Jan 26, 2010
DiMarzio Receives Patent for Research
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio has been awarded a patent for “Enhanced detection of acousto-photonic emissions in optically turbid media using a photo-refractive crystal-based detection system”.
Jan 20, 2010
Sun Receives Additional Funding
Nian Sun, an ECE Associate Professor, received an additional $76K towards his NSF CAREER award that investigates novel spin-spray synthesis methods for magnoelectronic films at low temperature.
Jan 13, 2010
Gu & Wan Receive $150K DOE Grant
CEE assistant professor April Gu and MIE associate professor Kai-tak Wan, have received a grant from DOE to explore how nano-scale cell surface characteristics dictate the microbial transport and migration behavior in contaminant remediation.
Jan 01, 2010
Engineers Without Borders Honors Northeastern Chapter
Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA) selected the Northeastern University chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-NEU) as a premiere chapter.
Dec 23, 2009
Gu Awarded NSF CAREER Grant
April Gu, Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, has received a $430K NSF CAREER grant to determine the levels of contaminants and toxicity in water supplies using prokaryotic real-time gene expression profiling.