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Sep 08, 2023
Spinout Company Fourier LLC To Revolutionize Thermal Management
After pioneering thermoforming technical ceramic matrix composites (CMC’s) last year, MIE Associate Professor Randall Erb and Jason Hoffman-Bice, PhD’22, mechanical engineering, created spinout company Fourier LLC to commercialize their groundbreaking innovation in thermal management.
Aug 24, 2023
Dahiya Speaks at AI for Good Global Summit
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya was selected as a speaker for the AI for Good Global Summit: Accelerating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which was held in Geneva, Switzerland July 6-7, 2023.
Aug 23, 2023
High School Students Participate in Enabling Engineering Project
High school students participating in an Enabling Engineering internship program designed a training tool to identify and treat femoral hematomas and improved a wheelchair camera mount.
Aug 22, 2023
$2.1M NIH Award for Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Alzheimer’s Disease
BioE Chair and Professor Lee Makowski, in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, received a $2.1M NIH for “Fibrillar Polymorphs in Human Brain Tissue.” The research will use x-ray scanning microscopy to observe changes in the molecular structure of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles during disease with the goal of better understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the disease.
Aug 11, 2023
Ratilal-Makris To Serve on Ocean Research Advisory Panel
ECE Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris is one of 18 members selected for the newly formed Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP), who will serve as advisors to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the interagency Ocean Policy Committee (OPC).
Aug 09, 2023
Northeastern Receives One of First Research Grants from CHIPS and Science Act’s Wireless Innovation Fund
The announcement of the grants was made at Northeastern’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex in Boston and was followed by a tour of the Wireless Internet of Things lab. The CHIPS and Science Act provides $1.5 billion over the next decade to support the development of open and interoperable wireless networks.
Aug 08, 2023
Professor’s ‘Game-changing’ Alzheimer’s Research a Major Beneficiary of $50 Million Grant
A new research institute led by Allen Distinguished Investigator and BioE Associate Professor Nikolai Slavov is the principal beneficiary of a $50 million grant from two investors, Schmidt Futures and Citadel, to develop new techniques for studying Alzheimer’s disease.
Jul 26, 2023
Chowdhury Selected as Finalist for Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering for addressing the global need of telecommunications spectrum scarcity, as well as improve connectivity by designing next generation wireless systems and machine learning-based network operations.