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May 24, 2023
How AI Is Making Weather Forecasts More Accurate
Interdisciplinary engineering alumni Kate Duffy, PhD’21, and Thomas Vandal, PhD’18, both worked as NASA scientists before creating the new start-up, Zeus AI, which uses AI and machine learning to analyze data from satellites to improve weather forecasting.
May 22, 2023
BioE Spinout BrilliantSprings Is Finalist in ARPA-H Competition
The spinoff company BrilliantStrings Therapeutics of BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti and mechanical engineering alum Jeff Paten, PhD’14, made it to the “final four” of the “ARPA-H Dash” competition to accelerate health outcomes.
May 16, 2023
As They Collaborate To Develop Surgical Robots, One Graduate of Northeastern’s Gordon Institute Helps Another
Students who participate in the Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership program are trained in teambuilding, leadership skills, and the importance of people skills and conflict management, which can be crucial components to finding a leadership position.
May 10, 2023
2023 Knight-Hennessey Fellowship
Bioengineering alum Conor Messer, E’19, was awarded a Knight-Hennessey Scholars fellowship and will pursue master’s degrees at Stanford University. Messer is an associate computational biologist at the Broad Institute.
May 02, 2023
Student Speaker for Graduate Commencement Used ‘Northeastern Experience’ To Discover a New Career
Kristine Umeh, E’20, chemical engineering, will be the student speaker at the 2023 graduate commencement ceremony.
Apr 18, 2023
Alumni Spotlight: Alex Silverman, MS’21
Like many, Alexandra Silverman was first introduced to science in middle school in the form of a frog dissection. However, instead of the impending nausea many experience at the sight of internal organs, Silverman became enraptured by the beauty and intricacy of science.
Apr 06, 2023
Catching Up With Roger Grace
Northeastern alumnus Roger Grace, E’66 and ME’69, was featured in the Microelectronics Packaging & Test Engineering Council Winter 2022 report article “Catching Up With Roger Grace.” Grace has served on […]
Mar 30, 2023
Schmidt Futures Gives $50M for Life Science Research Including Single-Cell Proteomics Institute
The GenomeWeb article “Schmidt Futures Gives $50M for Life Science Research Including Single-Cell Proteomics Institute” highlights the Parallel Squared Technology Institute (PTI), a new non-profit research institute recently launched by […]