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Sep 16, 2022
New Techniques of Treating Breast Cancer
ChE Professor Debra Auguste is developing a new targeted approach to treating triple-negative breast cancer–a form of the disease more prevalent in younger women, with a higher rate of mortality among African American women. By using ultra-deformable liposomes, drugs intended to combat the cancer can be applied to the source with more accuracy, increasing their effectiveness.
Sep 15, 2022
Developing an Ankle Exoskeleton to Assist the Mobility of Older Adults
MIE Assistant Professor Seungmoon Song was awarded a $747K NIH grant from the National Institute of Aging for “Simulation Framework to Develop Ankle Exoskeleton Gait Assistance for Older Adults.” The study will develop and evaluate how ankle-exoskeleton assistance affects metabolic energy consumption, walking speed, and pain during walking in healthy young and older adults, as well as in older adults with knee osteoarthritis.
Sep 15, 2022
Sheahan Publishes 3rd Ed. of An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
Executive Vice Provost and CEE Professor Thomas Sheahan published the 3rd edition of “An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering.” The book, also featured in the ASCE Geostrata magazine, focuses on both the fundamental and applied, covering the engineering classification, behavior, and properties of soils necessary for the design and construction of foundations and earth structures.
Sep 15, 2022
Abowd Receives UbiComp 10-year Impact Award
Gregory Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, was awarded the UbiComp 10-year Impact Award for his paper “What Next, Ubicomp?: Celebrating an Intellectual Disappearing Act.” The UbiComp conference series is the premiere venue for researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing.
Sep 12, 2022
Designing Novel Storage System for Better Management of Data from Scientific Instruments
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari is part of a multi-university and national lab team that received a $2.7 million DOE award for “End‐to‐end Object‐focused Software‐defined Data Management for Science.” The research will design a software framework that would make it easier for domain scientists using data storage systems to glean insights from massive scientific datasets.
Sep 09, 2022
Improving Infrastructure to Minimize Climate Damage
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly stresses the need to design and build a more resilient infrastructure to reduce exposure to devastating climate events like floods.
Sep 09, 2022
Northeastern University Launches New Certificates in Climate and Sustainability Engineering
Northeastern University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has launched two new graduate certificate programs, aimed at providing students with the skills to face some of our most pressing societal and engineering challenges. The two new graduate programs include a Certificate in Climate and Engineering and a Certificate in Sustainability Engineering. “These certificates will provide […]
Sep 09, 2022
Designing Self-Adaptive Next Generation RF Receivers for Heavily Crowded Electromagnetic Environments
ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, Professor Miriam Leeser, and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella were awarded a $750K NSF grant for “Advancing Coexistence through a Cross-Layer Design Platform with an Adaptive Frequency-Selective Radio Front-End and Digital Algorithms.” The research lays the groundwork for enhanced radio frequency communication systems that make use of real-time tuning to adapt to different spectrum environments for higher interference tolerance, and to provide design techniques and tools that improve the coexistence of wireless devices.