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Nov 08, 2017

Annual Energy Conference Draws Over 300 from Industry and Academia

Northeastern University’s Energy Conference – NUEC’17 – took place on September 29, 2017, on the Boston campus. This event was hosted by the College of Engineering and organized by the […]

Oct 27, 2017

A New Way to Fight ‘Superbugs’

Ben Geilich, PhD, Chemical Engineering, 2016, is using nanoparticles to improve an antibiotics ability to treat infections. Northeastern doctoral graduate Ben Geilich cheerfully admits that he loves studying bacteria—tiny, resourceful […]

Chemical Engineering

Oct 25, 2017

Northeastern Researcher Creates Innovative Surgical Glue

ChE Assistant Professor Nasim Annabi was featured in The Huntington News article “Northeastern researcher creates innovative surgical glue”.

Chemical Engineering

Oct 23, 2017

A New Way to Fight ‘Superbugs’

ChE PhD student Ben Geilich is using nanoparticles to improve an antibiotics ability to treat infections. Source: Northeastern Magazine Northeastern doctoral graduate Ben Geilich cheerfully admits that he loves studying […]

Chemical Engineering

Oct 20, 2017

Human-Robot Friendship

Murphy Wonsick, PhD’20—Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to complete dangerous tasks in space. In fact, she’s working on one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots to exist—Northeastern’s NASA robot Valkyrie—under the direction of Taskin Padir, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oct 20, 2017

Human-Robot Friendship

Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oct 18, 2017

ChE Medical Devices Project Selected as Chunhui Cup Finalist

ChE Research Assistant Professor Linlin Sun, Dept. Chair & Professor Tom Webster, and ChE student Cungu Cao are part of a six-person interdisciplinary team developing the Wearable Nano-Piezoelectric Sensors for Neck Movement and Detection Device that has been selected as finalists for the 12th Annual Chunhuibei (Chunhui) Cup Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition

Chemical Engineering

Oct 11, 2017

Northeastern ChE to Represent at BMES

Today marks the start of Biomedical Engineering Society’s Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. ChemE students and faculty will participate in sixteen oral presentations and thirteen poster presentations over the next four days. With over 4,000 attendees […]

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering