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Nov 07, 2025
Northeastern Nominates 6 COE Students for Prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Druhi Bhargava, E’24, computer engineering; Amanda Ferrante, E’26, bioengineering and biochemistry; Kevin Giordano, E’26, mechanical engineering and physics; Victoria Robbins, E’22, chemical engineering; Nishita Roy, E’26, bioengineering, and Zhenming Yang, E’26, electrical and computer engineering were were six of nine nominated by Northeastern for the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, which develops a community of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.
Nov 07, 2025
Patent for the Smart Super-Material That Blocks Heat and Boosts Signals
MIE Professor Randall Erb was awarded a patent for “Thermally conductive boron nitride films and multilayered composites containing them.”
Nov 04, 2025
Advancing Innovation and Impact: Highlights from the Northeastern NAI Chapter Fall 2025 Event
MIE Professor Randall Erb and ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig both participated in the annual meeting of Northeastern University’s National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Chapter to bring together innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs.
Oct 31, 2025
Strategy for Inventors Placing Talent in Complex Innovation Networks
MIE Associate Professor Babak Heydari’s research on “Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms’ innovation” was published in the Strategic Management Journal.
Oct 31, 2025
Making Exoskeletons Safe Through Uncertainty
Research conducted by Fatima Mumtaza Tourk, PhD’27, mechanical engineering; Bishoy Galoaa, PhD’29, computer engineering; Sanat Shajan, COS’25; ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Michael Everett; and Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd on “Uncertainty-Aware Ankle Exoskeleton Control” was published in Robotics.
Oct 31, 2025
Creating a Single Nanodevice That Displays a Record-High Number of Independent Images
Research conducted by MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu on “Polarization-Encoded Lenticular Nano-Printing with Single-Layer Metasurfaces” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Oct 30, 2025
Advanced Science Frontispiece Features Research on Materials with Embodied Intelligence
Research conducted by MIE Postdoctoral Research Associate Richard Nash, Yunzheng Yang, PhD’27, and Associate Professor Yaning Li on “Adaptive Mechanical Metamaterials with On-Demand Binary Local Modulus for Embodied Intelligence” was featured on the frontspiece of Advanced Science.
Oct 29, 2025
Patent for Keeping Microchips Cool with Printed Nano-Arrays
University Distinguished and MIE William Lincoln Smith Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded a patent for “Printed micro and nanostructured arrays for thermal management of electronic devices.”