News
Oct 27, 2021
BioE Alumna Published and Honored for Community Service and Leadership
Bioengineering alumna Kritika Singh, E’20, who was selected as a Rhodes Scholar and National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge (NIH OxCam) Scholar , has had her research, which she began before […]
Oct 22, 2021
Making Space Accessible to All
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara participated in a zero-gravity flight with a crew of 12 ambassadors with mobility, vision, and hearing disabilities to test how spacesuits and vessels can be made more accessible.
Oct 21, 2021
Paul Champion receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Conference on Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy
The International Conference on Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy (TRVS) selected BioE Affiliate Faculty and Physics Professor Paul Champion as a recipient for its Lifetime Achievement Award for “Outstanding Contributions and World-Wide Recognition for Developing novel Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopies to Measure Complex Phenomena in Biological Systems”.
Oct 19, 2021
2021 Fulbright Applicants
Rodrigo Blanco Bravo, E’22, bioengineering; Hannah Boyce, E’22, chemical engineering; Lake Jacobs-Skolik, E’22, electrical engineering; and Carrie Tam, E’22, civil engineering and architectural studies, are among the slate of 2021 Northeastern University applicants to the Fulbright US Student Program.
Oct 12, 2021
Creating a Global Network to Explore Living Systems
University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, physics and bioengineering, in collaboration with Princeton University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, William Marsh Rice University, and Yale University, is leading a $5.5M NSF grant for “International Physics of Living Systems Graduate Research Network.”
Oct 12, 2021
Fall 2021 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2021 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Sep 28, 2021
Identifying Novel Markers of Senescence Cells
BioE Associate Professor Nikolai Slavov, in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, was awarded a $588K NIH grant from the National Cancer Institute for “Single-Cell Proteomic Identification of Novel Markers of Senescence.”
Sep 17, 2021
Monitoring the Neurological Functions of Preterm Infants
University Distinguished Professor Dagmar Sternad, biology/ECE, in collaboration with David Paydarfar at the University of Texas at Austin Medical School, was awarded a $1M NSF grant for “Movement as a Vital Sign in Preterm Infants.”
Aug 05, 2021
Using Robots to Help Blind and Deaf People Communicate
Samantha Johnson, E’21, ME’21, bioengineering, built a robotic hand that can be used to produce tactile sign language so that people who are blind and deaf can be more independent.
Aug 05, 2021
Cutting-Edge Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator
BioE/ECE Affiliated Faculty Eugene Tunik, ECE Professor Deniz Erdogmus, ECE Research Professor Dana Brooks, and COS Professor Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli were awarded a $400K NSF MRI grant for the “Acquisition of a controllable pulse transcranial magnetic stimulator with robotic positioning and integrated EEG / EMG for engineering and neuroscience research and education.”