Alumni News
Aug 21, 2025
Creating Impactful Medical Devices to Improve Lives
Caline Pechdimaljian, MS’25, bioengineering, started her career in pharmaceutical process engineering research and development. Her work with pharmaceutical manufacturing sparked her curiosity for looking into targeted therapeutics and medical device development. The bioengineering master’s program led her to discover her passion for working on technology to improve the health and quality of life of patients and communities.
Apr 03, 2025
Affinity Student Groups 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to engineering affinity student groups at the 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The participating groups included SHPE, SWE, BESS, and SASE.
Apr 02, 2025
Drug Delivery Using Cationic Exosomes To Treat Osteoarthritis
Tanvi Vinod Pathrikar, PhD’24, bioengineering, who worked in BioE Associate Professor Ambika Bajpayee’s lab, published “Cartilage-targeting Exosomes for Delivery of Receptor Antagonist of Interleukin-1 in Osteoarthritis treatment” in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.
Feb 25, 2025
Young Alumni Impact Award Winners Share Their Career Journeys
As part of Engineers Week, Gregory Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering, presented the college’s inaugural Young Alumni Impact Awards to six recent graduates who are transforming industries and inspiring the next generation. The award recipients shared their career journeys and how they turned their experiential education into impactful careers. View the video recap and photo gallery.
Feb 11, 2025
Bioengineering Capstone Team Improves Healthcare in Rural Maine
As part of their capstone project, bioengineering students developed Flextab, a circular silicon-based tab that replaces stickers on an electrocardiogram (EKG), after learning about healthcare professionals’ needs in rural Maine working with the Roux Institute at Northeastern.
Jan 31, 2025
Inaugural College of Engineering Young Alumni Impact Award Recipients
The College of Engineering announces its inaugural Young Alumni Impact Award recipients. These six leaders in their fields were carefully selected from a pool of faculty nominations. With only one awardee for each engineering discipline, this is an elite achievement. The awards ceremony and “Career Paths to Impact” fireside chat hosted by Dean Gregory Abowd is Feb. 18, 2025 in Boston and virtual.
May 22, 2024
Bioengineering PhD Develops and Commercializes Breakthrough MRI Technology
Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD’16, bioengineering, co-founded Imaginostics, commercializing a novel technology called QUTE-CE MRI, which is a platform technology for non-invasive imaging that transforms any MRI machine into a powerful quantitative diagnostic tool. Imaginostics was recognized as a finalist among more than 4,500 participants of Hello Tomorrow, a prestigious competition for deep tech startups.
May 09, 2024
Knight-Hennessy Scholarship Recipient Strives To Raise Malaria Awareness
Kritika Singh, E’20, bioengineering, has been awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, which will enable her to pursue a doctor of medicine degree at Stanford University. She received the Rhodes Scholarship in 2020.