News
May 16, 2016
Committed to Social Justice
Congratulations to bioengineering student Peyton Perry, E'20, who was selected to be part of the Oxfam America CHANGE Initiative.
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May 02, 2016
Faculty and Staff Awards 2016
2016 Faculty and Staff Awards Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2015-2016 academic school year. Faculty Fellow Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE Carol Livermore, MIE Marilyn Minus, MIE Rising Star Staff Award Gabrielle Fiorenza, Co-op Nicole Nightingale, Dean’s Office Outstanding Teachers […]
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Apr 28, 2016
Asthagiri is Exploring the Spread of Cancer Cells
BioE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri explores the biophysics behind the spread of breast cancer, providing hope for future treatments and early diagnosis. Source: News @ Northeastern Metastasis. The very word evokes fear. Defined as the spread of cancer cells from one part of the body to another, metastasis is the cause of approximately 90 percent […]
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Apr 21, 2016
Professor Rinaldi and Group Publish Paper in Nature Communications
Professor Matteo Rinaldi and his group have published a new paper in Nature Communications titled "Plasmonic piezoelectric nanomechanical resonator for spectrally selective infrared sensing."
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Apr 04, 2016
BioE PhD Student Solomon Mensah Receives 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award
Solomon Mensah is a Doctoral student in the Department of Bioengineering and a 2016 recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award. He will use his award to investigate inter-cellular interactions in cancer and cardiovascular diseases, and to study the role played by the blood vessel wall sugar coating called “glycocalyx." Mensah's work, is supervised by Professor […]
Mar 30, 2016
Congratulation NSF GRFP Recipients
Congratulations to the current students and alumni who are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards.
Mar 22, 2016
FY17 TIER 1 Award Recipients
23 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY17 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 12 different projects representing over $600K dollars of investment in research.
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Mar 10, 2016
Join Engineering Co-op Students LIVE on Snapchat
Join engineering co-op students David Measley and James Kilgannon on Snapchat today March 10 LIVE from their co-op in Italy!
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Dec 17, 2015
Shashi Murthy Elected Fellow of AIMBE
ChE Professor Shashi Murthy has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for outstanding contributions to the science and technology of cell purification for therapeutic and analytical applications.
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Dec 10, 2015
Research from the Slavov Lab highlighted in a Cell Press Spotlight by Thomas Preiss
BioE Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov's research was featured in Trends in Biochemical Sciences for "All Ribosomes Are Created Equal. Really?"