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Mar 03, 2014

Multipurpose Nanocrystals

ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster was featured in the Boston Herald for his use of nanocrystals to fix everything from potholes to cancer cells.

Chemical Engineering

Feb 14, 2014

Take 5: Questions of the heart

From studying the physics of a heart­beat to designing new car­diac dis­ease detec­tion methods, these five researchers have the heart on the brain. 1. Drop a beat To Thomas Web­ster, pro­fessor and […]

Chemical Engineering

Feb 13, 2014

Rebecca Carrier advances drug delivery

Rebecca Carrier, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Scientists and doctors have long known that food digestion affects the way the body absorbs not just nutrients, but also drugs. Fat molecules, […]

Chemical Engineering

Feb 12, 2014

West Awarded DNI Grant

ChE Assistant Professor Richard West was awarded an $100K Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society. Dr. West/s main research focuses are catalysis, modeling and simlulation.

Chemical Engineering

Jan 13, 2014

Webster Selected Fellow

Chemical Engineering professor and Chair of department Thomas Webster was selected as a Fellow of the Ernst Strüngmann Forum, which is dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary communication and research. The Ernst […]

Chemical Engineering

Jan 13, 2014

Murthy to Select Features

Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Shashi Murthy was appointed as a member of the Features Advisory Panel for the American Chemical Society’s journal Analytical Chemistry. Dr. Murthy joined Northeastern faculty in 2005 […]

Chemical Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Dec 17, 2013

Ligament Nanomedicine: New ways to treat injuries like Gronk’s

New Eng­land Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski tore both his ante­rior cru­ciate lig­a­ment and medial col­lat­eral lig­a­ments in a game two weeks ago after a defender’s jar­ring hit to his leg. The cur­rent […]

Chemical Engineering

Dec 02, 2013

Congratulations Radhika Barua

Radhika Barua, a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. candidate has been selected as one of two recipients of the 2013-2014 GMAG (Topical Group on Magnetism) PhD Dissertation Research Award for outstanding dissertation research […]

Chemical Engineering