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Oct 07, 2022
Accelerating the Production of Tetratenite as Alternative to Rare-Earth Magnets
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, has developed a method to create tetratenite as an alternative to rare-earth magnets, of which she was awarded a patent.
Sep 29, 2022
Yong Receives ONR YIP Award To Help Create Autonomous Navy Ships
MIE Associate Professor Sze Zheng Yong was awarded a $750,000 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Distributed Coordination of Autonomous Swarms With Limited or Absent Communication and Intermittent Data.”
Sep 27, 2022
Solar Decathlon Team Looks To Design Net-Zero Housing Properties
The Northeastern Solar Decathlon team was a winner of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon Build Challenge, a distinction that came with $50,000 in funding. They are working to become the first collegiate Solar Decathlon Build Challenge team to build a multiunit, energy-efficient structure in an urban environment.
Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation To Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.
Sep 23, 2022
Singh Receives IEEEOES 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
ECE/MIE Professor Hanuman Singh received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society for his work on autonomous underwater vehicles.
Sep 23, 2022
Do Micro-Level Social Interaction Parameters Effect Pandemic Policy Success?
MIE Associate Professor Babak Heydari’s research on “Micro-level Social Structures and the Success of COVID-19 National Policies” was published in the Nature Computational Science journal.
Sep 20, 2022
Northeastern in Top 100 Universities With U.S. Utility Patents
For the seventh consecutive year, Northeastern University has appeared in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) list of Top 100 Universities that were granted U.S. utility patents in 2021, cementing it as a world leader in academia and research.
Sep 20, 2022
Spring 2022 Center for Research Innovation Spark Fund Awardees
Bouve/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji, ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi, ECE Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris, and MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam are recipients of the Spring 2022 Spark Fund Awards from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation.