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May 14, 2025
Mechanical Engineering Student Named Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Matthew Coughlin, E’25, mechanical engineering, has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University, becoming the fifth Husky to receive the prestigious fully-funded graduate scholarship.
May 14, 2025
Zheng Receives 2025 Top Ten Chinese American Outstanding Youth Award
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was a recipient of the 2025 Top Ten Chinese American Outstanding Youth Award by the Los Angeles Post and the All-America Chinese Youth Federation in Los Angeles.
May 14, 2025
Patent for Origami-Inspired Morphing Wing Design
MIE Professor Moneesh Upmanyu was awarded a patent for “Variable morphing wing using surface actuated origami folds.”
May 14, 2025
Students Win First Place at UK National Unibots Competition
The London Northeastern Robotics Club secured first place in the 2025 National Unibots Competition held at the University of Cambridge, besting 10 other teams with its robot that incorporated a vacuum motor, which gave it an edge against its competitors.
May 12, 2025
Northeastern’s Boston Campus Hosts Inaugural Magnetics Workshop
The Inaugural NU Cross-College Magnetics Center Workshop, hosted at Northeastern’s Boston campus on May 7, 2025, brought together dozens of participants from the university’s Boston, Burlington, and Portland campuses.
May 09, 2025
New Computational Model Enables Alloy Design for Real Materials
MIE Professor Moneesh Upmanyu’s new research paper, “Solute-drag Forces From Short-time Equilibrium Fluctuations of Crystalline Interfaces,” was selected as an Editor’s Pick by the Journal of Applied Physics. He discovered a faster, cost-efficient, and more accurate computational model for alloy design of real materials.
May 08, 2025
Zheng Moderates Photonics Panel at CLEO 2025
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng moderated the panel discussion, “Next-Gen Photonic Metamaterials: Innovations in Light, Heat, Devices, and AI,” at the 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), organized by the IEEE Photonics Society, OPTICA, and APS.
May 06, 2025
Northeastern Team Wins Grand Prize at MassRobotics Competition
A Northeastern University student team won first place at the MassRobotics Form & Function Robotics Challenge, receiving the $10,000 grand prize. They competed against 16 teams from universities across the globe.