Alumni News
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.
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.
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 […]
Mar 20, 2023
BioE Alumni Spotlight: Jessica Fitzgerald, University of Colorado Boulder
Jessica Fitzgerald, PhD, is a teaching faculty member at the University of Colorado. She teaches Computer-Aided Design and Fabrication, Anatomy and Physiology for Engineers, Bioinstrumentation, and Biomaterials. She is also […]
Mar 20, 2023
BioE Alumni Spotlight: Rachel Horenstein, University of Denver
Rachel Horenstein, PhD, is a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Denver. She currently teaches courses in solid mechanics and engineering […]
Mar 20, 2023
BioE Alumni Spotlight: Solomon Mensah, Worchester Polytechnic Institute
Assistant Professor Solomon Mensah obtained a bachelor’s in biomedical engineering from City College of New York and a PhD in bioengineering in 2019 from Northeastern University. He was born in […]
Mar 08, 2023
Opening Doors for the DeafBlind Community
Nick Scaperdas, E’24, bioengineering, is working with a group of students from the Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education’s Generate student-run product development studio to develop a doorbell that can be used by DeafBlind individuals.
Dec 19, 2022
PhD Spotlight: Tianchi Chen, PhD’22 – Bioengineering
My research concentration is on using dynamical system modeling approach to understand epigenetic mechanisms in gene regulatory networks and building distributed computational synthetic genetic circuits. Following Northeastern, I will be […]