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May 12, 2026
Climate and Wildfires Drive Persistent U.S. Formaldehyde Levels
CEE Assistant Professor Shang Liu’s research on “Surface Atmospheric Formaldehyde Trends in the U.S. Driven by Temperature-Dependent Biogenic Precursor Emissions and Influenced by Wildfires” was published in ACS ES&T Air.
May 07, 2026
Paying It Forward: Four Northeastern Engineers on Service, Purpose, and Giving Back
Four Northeastern engineering students — Clare Chi, Hebat Elkacemi, Jimmy Cheung, and Mia Filardi—were selected this year as Patrick P. Lee Scholarship recipients, chosen not for accolades alone but for their commitment to bringing others along with them. From teaching robotics to Boston schoolchildren to leading civic engagement programs and organizing voter registration drives, each has found a distinct way to turn their education outward. Their stories reflect a simple but demanding idea: that what you receive, you owe to others.
May 07, 2026
Summer 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
May 06, 2026
New Project Combines Biology, Music, and Math to Display Limb Regeneration
A project named “Morphogenesis,” led by Garret Compston and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, uses Alan Turing’s pattern with musical representation to portray the biological process behind how individual cells, tissues and organs develop their specific shapes and structures when the embryo is still developing.
May 05, 2026
Closas to Serve as General Co-Chair at NAVICON 2026
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas will serve as the general co-chair of the organizing committee for the inaugural IEEE Navigation Conference (NAVICON 2026), which will be held in Munich, Germany, from December 9 to 11, 2026.
May 05, 2026
Minkara Named 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was one of seventeen named a 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for her work in decoding the molecular logic of innate immune recognition.
May 05, 2026
New Guidelines Aim to Make Technology Research More Accessible and Easier to Verify
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser and her co-authors examine the evolution of research transparency in their editorial, “Artifact Evaluation in the FPGA Community and in ACM TRETS,” published in ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.
May 05, 2026
Groundbreaking Research on MIMO Wireless Networks
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia received the 2026 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award for his research on “BANDWEAVE: Enhanced Channel Estimation in MIMO Networks with Multi-Band Fusion,” which highlights his groundbreaking research on MIMO wireless networks.