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Mar 30, 2020

Potts Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

Bioengineering BS/MS student Jake Potts was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship which he will use to conduct research at Sorbonne University to try to determine how certain cancerous mutations happen as DNA is “misrepaired,” a process that occurs when, say, radiation or harsh chemicals break the two strands of our DNA, and our cells respond by trying to repair this damage.

Bioengineering

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Mar 26, 2020

Shefelbine Selected as AIMBE Fellow

MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine was selected as an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow in recognition of “her distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering”.

Bioengineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Feb 27, 2020

COE PhD Research Expo Winners

As part of National Engineers Week, the Graduate School of Engineering hosted a PhD Research Expo to showcase the cutting-edge research that our graduate students are working on, from robotics, computer vision and biomechanics to nanomedicine, cell- tissue engineering, and machine learning. Congratulations to the winners of the poster competition. Ebrahim Mostafavi, Electroconductive Gelatin-Graphene Composite Nanofibrous […]

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Feb 13, 2020

Bioengineering Student Nominated for Truman Scholarship

Northeastern University has nominated Kerry Eller, BioE’21, as one out of four outstanding students for the Truman Scholarship.

Bioengineering

Kerry Eller (left) and Julie Na Yoon Kim (right)

Feb 11, 2020

2020 Goldwater Scholarship Nominees

Bioengineering student Kerry Eller, E’21, and Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry student Julie Na Yoon Kim, E’21, were two of four students nominated for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship by Northeastern University.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering

Kritika Singh, founder and director of Northeastern University Global Health Initiative, speaks during the Global Health in a Changing World conference

Feb 10, 2020

Addressing the Global Concerns of Human Health

Kritika Singh, BioE’20, is the founder and director of the Northeastern University Global Health Initiative student group and organized the recent Global Health in a Changing World: People, Planet, and Technology conference.

Bioengineering

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Jan 31, 2020

Unpicking the Proteome in Single Cells

BioE Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov’s research into using single-cell mass-spectrometry methods for high-throughput analysis of proteins is featured in the Science article “Unpicking the proteome in single cells.”

Bioengineering

Jan 30, 2020

Translating the ‘Mastermind’ Concept from Business to Academia

Assistant Professors Danielle Levac (Bouvé), Emily Zimmerman (Bouvé), Kristen Allison (Bouvé), Abigail Koppes (ChE), Sarah Ostadabbas (ECE), Jessica Oakes (BioE), and Associate Professor Eno Ebong (ChE) were awarded a 2020 ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program (M2AP) Grant for “Translating the ‘Mastermind’ Concept from Business to Academia: Facilitating Peer mentorship among female PIs leading active research labs”.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 27, 2020

Spring 2020 PEAK Experiences Awardees

Congratulations to the COE student recipients of the Spring 2020 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they continue climbing to new heights of achievement in undergraduate research and creative endeavor throughout their Northeastern journeys. BASE CAMP AWARDS Developing HPLC Methods for Characterizing […]

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jan 13, 2020

In Vitro Implementation of Robust Gene Regulation in a Synthetic Biomolecular Integral Controller

ECE/BioE Professor Eduardo Sontag’s research on “in vitro implementation of robust gene regulation in a synthetic biomolecular integral controller” was published in Nature Communications.

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering