News
Apr 09, 2026
2026 COE Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
The COE Outstanding Graduate Student Awards for 2026 were awarded to more than 50 graduate students across the Northeastern global campus for their exceptional achievements in research, teaching, leadership, and service.
Apr 07, 2026
Zheng Selected as Associate Editor for Applied Optics and Optics
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was selected as an Associate Editor for two leading optics journals, Applied Optics by Optica and Optics by MDPI.
Apr 01, 2026
Northeastern Engineering Professors on the Lack of Representation in Medical Research
MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine and BioE Associate Professor Chiara Bellini discuss the lack of representation of women in medicine and medical research, specifically in their research areas of bone biomechanics and cardiovascular health–respectively.
Mar 30, 2026
Amini & Oakes Named ASME Associate Editors of the Year
MIE Associate Professor Rouzbeh Amini was named the 2025 Associate Editor of the Year by the ASME Open Journal of Engineering and BioE Associate Professor Jessica Oakes was named the 2025 Associate Editor of the Year by the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
Mar 30, 2026
Making AI in Healthcare Reliable with Dr. Burcu Ozek
Dr. Burcu Ozek is currently a Principal AI Scientist at Walkky after completing a PhD in industrial engineering at Northeastern. Looking back at her time with Northeastern, Ozeck shares the value of the LEADERs program and how her hands-on experience gave her the necessary skills to communicate across teams in her work with AI in healthcare.
Mar 23, 2026
New Space Engineering Club Set to Launch Their First Satellite
Northeastern’s Satellite Laboratory will be launching their first satellite with a resupply mission to the ISS. Coming from Aerospace NU, the club branched out to focus on their own ambitions, hoping to give Northeastern a permanent place for spacecraft engineering research.
Mar 16, 2026
NSF CAREER Award To Develop Next-Generation Energy Diagnostics
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu received a $630K NSF CAREER award for “Interpretable Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Analytics, Diagnostics, and Artificial Intelligence for Porous Electrodes.”
Mar 12, 2026
Industrial Engineering Students Publish Findings on Dual Substance Use and Treatment Success
The research conducted by Logan Kane, E’26, industrial engineering, in collaboration with Sahil Shikalgar, PhD’26, industrial engineering, in a data science workshop offered by MIE Associate Professor Md Noor E Alam on “Investigating the Effect of Secondary Cannabis Use on Treatment Discontinuation Among Individuals Undergoing Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment” was published in Substance Use & Misuse.