News
Nov 20, 2024
Inclusive Engineering Mentoring Initiative
ChE Professor and Chair Rebecca Willits was awarded, in collaboration with the University of Akron (PI), an $800,000 NSF award for “BPE Track 3: Engineering Academic Mentoring Collective,” which is designed to help build supportive networks of underrepresented groups in engineering, particularly Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals and women.
Nov 20, 2024
Pfluger Receives AIChE Outstanding Student Chapter Advisor Award
ChE Teaching Professor Courtney Pfluger received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Outstanding Student Chapter Advisor Award which recognizes outstanding service and leadership in guiding the student chapter activities in accordance with the national organization’s principles.
Nov 20, 2024
2023-2024 Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Award
Dominic Pizzarella, E’24, chemical engineering, received the 2023-2024 Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Award, which is awarded by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to 15 students annually for their outstanding academic achievement and involvement in student chapter activities.
Nov 20, 2024
AIChE Outstanding Student Chapter Award
The Northeastern University student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) was selected as an Outstanding Student Chapter for the 2023 – 2024 school year.
Nov 20, 2024
ECE PhD Student Wins Multiple AVS Awards
Bin Luo, PhD’26, electrical engineering, who works in ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun’s lab, won the 2024 American Vacuum Society (AVS) National Graduate Research Award, the AVS MEMS/NEMS Group Best Research Work Award, and was a finalist for the Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures (MIND) Division Leo Falicov Student Award for Best Presentation of Graduate Research at the AVS 70th Symposium.
Nov 20, 2024
Zheng Receives ASME Rising Star Award
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng received an ASME Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering Award in recognition of his NSF CAREER award in “Nanoscale Radiative Heat Transfer for Enhanced Thermal Infrared Energy Conversion and Cooling.”
Nov 19, 2024
ECE Student Nominated for Churchill Scholarship
Maya De Los Santos, E’25, electrical and computer engineering, was nominated for the Churchill Scholarship, which provides funding to American students for a year of master’s study at Churchill College, which is part of the University of Cambridge.
Nov 18, 2024
Northeastern Team Awarded the Vivli AMR Surveillance Data Challenge Student Innovation Prize
A team of Northeastern graduate students and alumni, led by Harry Akligoh, PhD ’28, bioengineering, participated in the 2024 Vivli Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Surveillance Data Challenge and were awarded the Student Innovation Prize for their Microbiological Information Management System (microBIS) project.