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May 09, 2014
Student Wins GROW Grant
Bioengineering PhD student David Walsh won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant to perform ocular diagnostic research at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. The National Science Foundation partners up with countries all over the world to expand opportunities for professional development of those who are awarded the […]
Apr 11, 2014
Double Win at RISE 2014
PhD Bioengineering student David Walsh & Juliette Kassas (COS) were awarded the Excellence in Research award AND the Graduate Engineering and Technology Research award at this year's RISE 2014 Expo. The Research medal is one of the main awards given out at RISE; the other three are Innovation, Scholarship and Entrepreneurship. The Research award is […]
Apr 11, 2014
Interdisciplinary Research
Jodi Belz (BioE PhD), Stacey Markovic (EE PhD), and Mark Niedre (ECE Assistant Professor) were awarded a Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Award at this year’s RISE Expo. The project, called “Localized tumor delivery of radiosensitizers and chemotherapeutics using ‘INCeRT’ implants” involves a new chemo-treatment that can potentially reduce tumors.
Sep 12, 2013
Student Wins Travel Grant
Bioengineering PhD student David Walsh won a prestigious travel grant to attend the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting to present his work on designing microfluidic systems to diagnose disease of the eye. The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is the professional society for biomedical engineering and bioengineering.Founded in early 1968, the Society now boasts nearly 6,500 […]
Jun 10, 2013
3Qs: A 3-D printout for your health
The field of 3-D printing technology is revolutionizing industries across the spectrum, from the arts to electronics. We asked Constantinos Mavroidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, to explain how the approach, which is capable of rapidly producing low-cost three-dimensional structures the same way an ink-jet printer creates a two-dimensional image, is beginning to do the same […]
Apr 04, 2013
FY14 TIER 1 Award Recipients
22 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 14 different research projects.
Jan 15, 2013
Congratulations Qi Wang
Qi Wang, a Bioengineering PhD student, won “Best Presentation” at the Annual AIChE meeting for his research in “The synthesis of selenium nanoparticles via a simple fast reaction and its antibacterial application”. AIChE is the world's leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with over 45,000 members from over 100 countries. AIChE has the breadth of […]
Jun 14, 2012
The Risk of Carrying a Cup of Coffee
Object manipulation or tool use is almost a uniquely human trait, said Dagmar Sternad, director of Northeastern’s Action Lab, a research group interested in movement coordination. “Not only does it require certain cognitive abilities but also distinct motor abilities.” Simply moving one’s own body, for instance by directing a hand toward a coffee cup, requires the […]
Apr 04, 2012
FY13 TIER 1 Award Recipients
27 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY13 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 21 different research projects.
Mar 30, 2012
Congratulations David Walsh
David Walsh, a PhD student in Bioengineering, has received a NSF Graduate Research Fellowships that recognizes and supports outstanding students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines.