News
Oct 10, 2025
Eleven COE Students Apply for Fulbright
The Fulbright Campus Committee of Northeastern University, composed of faculty and staff from across the disciplines and colleges, announced eleven COE students and alums who applied for the Fulbright this year.
Oct 03, 2025
Fall 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Fall 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Sep 25, 2025
Examining Mice to Study Bone Development
MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine and Lindsey Young, PhD’28, bioengineering, are working on innovative research on bone development by examining two species of deer mice to determine how much of bone development is evolutionary or can be impacted by physical activity.
Sep 23, 2025
2025 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Aug 19, 2025
New Faculty Spotlight: Victoria D’Agostino
Victoria D’Agostino joins the bioengineering department in August 2025 as an assistant teaching professor.
Aug 19, 2025
New Faculty Spotlight: Beth A. Winkelstein
Beth A. Winkelstein joins Northeastern University in August 2025 as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and as a professor in bioengineering.
Aug 18, 2025
New Discovery on Plant Evolution Could Lead to Lifesaving Medicine
COS/BioE Professor Jing-Ke Weng and his research team traced the evolutionary history of Canadian moonseed and discovered its potential for developing new lifesaving drugs.
Aug 14, 2025
PADAM: A New Passive Imaging Algorithm Enabling Safer, More Precise Control for Focused Ultrasound Therapy
BioE Assistant Professor Tao Sun and his team have developed Passive Acoustic Dynamic Differentiation and Mapping (PADAM), a breakthrough in passive cavitation imaging that provides sharper localization and real-time classification of bubble activity during focused ultrasound (FUS) therapies.
Aug 08, 2025
Decoding the Proteins Inside Every Cell
BioE Professor Nikolai Slavov, in collaboration with EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK, was awarded a £2,000,000 NSF grant for “Making Single-Cell Proteomics data FAIR.”
Aug 07, 2025
NIH MIRA R35 Award to Advance Living Cellular Probes for Ultrasound Imaging and Immunomodulation Technologies
BioE Assistant Professor Tao Sun was awarded a $1.99 million NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) to develop ultrasound-controllable, multimodal imaging cellular probes and complementary ultrasound imaging technologies, enabling real-time tracking and modulation of inflammation dynamics and advancing precision medicine across a range of diseases.