News
Dec 15, 2023
Networking Fair Highlights Innovative PhD Research
Northeastern University’s PhD Network recently hosted an Innovation Research Fair in which PhD candidates presented their research to 14 companies, including Takeda, Amgen, and Merck, spanning what’s now the largest biotech hub in the country—Greater Boston.
Dec 15, 2023
Northeastern Team Places Third at Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Industrial Engineering Case Competition
Daunte Pean, E’25, Karim Kane, E’25, and Lucas Kirma, E’25, industrial engineering, won third place at Disney’s national Industrial Engineering Case Competition. As part of the case study competition, the team took on the role as outside consultants for the city of Dallas and gave their recommendation on what form of entertainment should be built.
Dec 15, 2023
Modeling How Cancer Attacks the Immune System
Physics/BioE University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine’s research on “Modeling the Role of Immune Cell Conversion in the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment” was published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.
Dec 12, 2023
Enabling Engineering Makes Play Accessible
Paired with external clients, students in Northeastern University’s Enabling Engineering class developed apps and devices this semester to empower individuals with disabilities to participate in activities they enjoy.
Dec 12, 2023
Oakland Students Building Robots and Solving Challenges
First-year engineering students at Northeastern’s Oakland campus showcased their Cornerstone of Engineering projects by building and programming self-driving robots to navigate mazes.
Dec 12, 2023
Predicting Flooding With AI Models
Following deadly floods in Tennessee, Puja Das, PhD’27, interdisciplinary engineering, is working on a NASA-funded project exploring AI-driven rainfall prediction models.
Dec 12, 2023
Fu Elected as Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Technical and Environmental Sciences class. The Academy’s mission is to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaboration between reputable scientists of all disciplines, leading artists, and practitioners of governance.
Dec 12, 2023
Fu Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was selected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.