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Aug 13, 2026
Celebrating Four Engineering Innovators Named in Women Who Empower Awards
Four Northeastern University College of Engineering alumnae and students were recognized in the 2026 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards, celebrating bold leadership, creative problem-solving, and entrepreneurial impact across medical technology, health, and wellness.
Aug 10, 2026
ChE Research Featured on Cover of ACS ES&T Engineering
Research conducted by chemical engineering students Sana Heydarian, PhD, and Lawrence Ajayi, PhD ’27, on “Electrochemical Nutrient Recovery for the Food–Energy–Water Nexus at Municipal Wastewater Facilities: Multivariate Analyses of Seasonal Sampling and Reactor Performance” was featured on the cover of ACS ES&T Engineering.
Jul 22, 2026
Studying the Formation of Socially Responsible Chemical Engineers
ChE Teaching Professor Courtney Pfluger, in collaboration with Kirsten Davis from Purdue University, was awarded a $159,103 grant for “Exploring Learning Pathways in the Formation of Socially Responsible Chemical Engineers” from the National Science Foundation’s Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF) program.
Jul 09, 2026
Zhao’s Research Featured on Cover of Nanoscale
ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao’s research on “Computational progress of designing single-atom alloy catalysts for methane activation” was featured on the back cover of Nanoscale.
Jul 01, 2026
Turning Industrial Wastewater Into a Sustainable Supply Chain for Green Energy
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Damilola Daramola and PhD student Qudus Rafiu published a study in Joule revealing that extracting critical minerals like lithium and magnesium from industrial wastewater could cleanly power the green energy transition.
Jun 10, 2026
Chemical Engineering PhD Student Earns U.S. Department of Energy SCGSR Award
Lawrence Ajayi, PhD’27, chemical engineering, has received a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award to advance his doctoral research at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Jun 01, 2026
Two Northeastern Students Helping Increase IVF Success Through Co-op
Two Northeastern students––Jake Percival, E, mechanical engineering and bioengineering, and Tori Christianson, E, chemical engineering and bioengineering––are completing their co-ops at AutoIVF. They are working on a device that can find “hidden” egg cells in follicular fluid, helping to increase the chance of successful IVF by increasing the number of eggs retrieved.
May 26, 2026
Marriage Through the Challenges of Research
The love story of how two Northeastern ChE faculty, Associate Professors Abigail and Ryan Koppes, met and fell in love, and how that love has influenced their work since.