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Dec 05, 2024
Co-ops Lay Foundation for Accomplished Raytheon Career
Co-op enabled James Sweeney, E’66, electrical engineering, to earn as he pursued a degree with work relevant to his chosen field and taught him important people skills that helped him navigate professional relationships during his over 40-year career at Raytheon.
Dec 04, 2024
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara Profiled in Tatler
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was featured in the Tatler article “Meet Dr. Mona Minkara, the Blind Scientist Redefining Accessible Travel and Adventure.”
Dec 03, 2024
Developing Network Management and Optimization Expertise
On a co-op at Charles River Development, Kunal Bhoyar, MS’24, information systems, built a foundation in network management that he expects will apply to a range of career options as he moves forward.
Dec 03, 2024
Developing AI Skills To Improve Business Operations
Anjali Kabra, MS’24, information systems, honed her AI skills on a co-op at Emergys and in the classroom to prepare for a career that focuses on using AI to optimize business operations.
Dec 02, 2024
Alumnus-Founded NapSpin Aims To Reshape Restaurant Work
Mike Foley, E’17, mechanical engineering, developed and launched the startup NapSpin, which produces machines that automate rolling silverware into napkins. Now with support from Northeastern’s GAP fund, Foley hopes to expand beyond the restaurant market to hospitals, hotels, and cruise ships.
Nov 27, 2024
Reprogrammed Pig Aortic Heart Valves Create New Options for Human Transplants
BioE Professor Ning Wang coauthored “Engineering Aortic Valves via Transdifferentiating Fibroblasts Into Valvular Endothelial Cells Without Using Viruses or iPS Cells,” published in Bioactive Materials. For the research, human skin cells were reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve into a rodent.
Nov 27, 2024
Rapidly Screening for Environmental Toxins
Bouvé/CEE Assistant Professor Julia Varshavsky’s research on “Analyzing High-Throughput Assay Data To Advance the Rapid Screening of Environmental Chemicals for Human Reproductive Toxicity” was published in Reproductive Toxicology.
Nov 27, 2024
Using Exoskeletons To Increase Mobility
Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd is leading a team of graduate students, including Fatima Tourk, PhD’27, mechanical engineering, to create a battery-powered exoskeleton that is intended to assist people with mobility issues and enable complex movements without causing discomfort. He co-authored research published in Nature on a new lower-limb exoskeleton.