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Apr 08, 2025
2025 NSF GRFP Recipients
Current students and alumni were recipients of the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. This prestigious program recognizes outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers early in their careers.
Apr 07, 2025
ChE Student Receives 2025 Hodgkinson Award
Madeline Szoo, E’25, chemical engineering and biochemistry, is the recipient of a Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award for 2025, one of the highest honors a senior can receive.
Apr 07, 2025
Industrial Engineering Student Receives IISE Scholarship
Natalee Barber, E’26, industrial engineering, received the Harold and Inge Marcus Scholarship from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) in recognition of her academic achievement and campus leadership.
Apr 07, 2025
ChE PhD Student’s Research Featured on ChemPhysChem Cover
Chengyu Zhou, PhD’ 28, chemical engineering, co-authored a paper with ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao titled “Revealing Mechanisms of Lithium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction Reaction From First-Principles Simulations,” which was featured on the cover of ChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 7.
Apr 07, 2025
Announcing Hongfei Lin as the Arthur W. Zafiropoulo Professor of Chemical Engineering
Hongfei Lin, who has dedicated his professional career to advancing sustainable energy systems, is joining Northeastern in July 2025 as the Arthur W. Zafiropoulo professor of chemical engineering.
Apr 03, 2025
Report on Strategic Engineering for Next-Gen Wireless Competitiveness
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, who is co-director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern, co-organized the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) visioning event that led to the report, “Strategic Engineering for Next-Generation Wireless Competitiveness.”
Apr 03, 2025
Affinity Student Groups 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to engineering affinity student groups at the 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The participating groups included SHPE, SWE, BESS, and SASE.
Apr 03, 2025
Making Wireless Signals More Resistant to Interference
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang were awarded a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting Radios’ ReSilience to Interference by Harnessing Magnon-Phonon Coupling In the First ElectromechanicaL SpinPhonic Devices (SHIELD).” They are enhancing a wireless transceiver’s resilience against electromagnetic interference in the 5G and 6G realms in order to transmit data at extremely high rates.