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Feb 27, 2026
Nervous System on a Chip: Spotlight on Grant Recipient Dr. Abigail Koppes
ChE Associate Professor Abigail Koppes was featured in the Sjögren’s Foundation article “Nervous System on a Chip: Spotlight on Grant Recipient Dr. Abigail Koppes.”
Feb 27, 2026
The Boom of AI is Behind the Surge in RAM Prices
Matteo Rinaldi, professor of electrical and computer engineering, helps explain the reason behind the recent surge in RAM prices. Due to the high memory usage AI data centers require, most RAM manufacturing streams feed directly to AI cooperations instead of consumers, driving up the market price.
Feb 27, 2026
Electrical PhD Student Receives SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award
Aswin Chowdary Undavalli, PhD, electrical engineering, won the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, which provides an honorarium as well as reimbursement of select expenses incurred by the awardee for attending the next International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
Feb 27, 2026
Simeone Publishes Book on Classical and Quantum Information Theory
Osvaldo Simeone, professor of information systems at the Intelligent Networked Systems Institute in London, published a book on “Classical and Quantum Information Theory.”
Feb 27, 2026
Gallaway Elected Chair of The Electrochemical Society’s New England Section
ChE Associate Professor Joshua Gallaway was elected as the Chair of the New England Section of The Electrochemical Society (ECS), a significant regional leadership role within the international professional society dedicated to advancing electrochemistry and solid state science.
Feb 26, 2026
Breaking the climate debt doom loop
Aayushi Mishra, PhD’28, interdisciplinary engineering, and Lizzy Warner Fellow, was featured in The Muni Lowdown podcast “Breaking the climate debt doom loop.”
Feb 26, 2026
The Technical Challenges of Integrating Robots into Human Society
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya published “Cognizant and Socially Aware Robotics” in Computer magazine. This article examines the current state of robotics and forecasts the near-term and midterm future landscape toward achieving humanoid robots capable of mimicking human perception, intelligence, and emotion.
Feb 26, 2026
New Biomimicry Technology Can Increase Safety in Autonomous Vehicles
New research from Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Ravinder Dahiya has the potential to make self-driving cars safer. This new technology mimics how a human retina analyzes images by using synaptic transistors, devices used to simulate neural pathways, that significantly reduces processing time to machines like autonomous vehicles.