News
Sep 01, 2011
New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Richard West
Assistant ProfessorThe Department of Chemical Engineering welcomed Dr. Richard West in September 2011 as an assistant professor. Dr. West was attracted to Northeastern for the enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit amongst the faculty and students, impressive upward trajectory, and for its location in one of the most academic cities in the US, Boston. Dr. Richard West […]
Aug 31, 2011
Creating the Super Magnet
ChE Professor and Chair Laura Lewis has received an $155K NSF grant to use high-anisotropy L10 materials to create rare-earth-free permanent magnets materials.
Aug 24, 2011
Mapping the Human Genome
ChE Professor Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy, working with LSU, was awarded a $276K grant to create a device using nanowires that will screen RNA and DNA sequences as part of NIH’s $1000 Genome Project.
Aug 15, 2011
Studying a Cell at a Time
ChE Assistant Professor Edgar Goluch was awarded a $174K NSF grant to use nanofluidic electrochemical detection and optics as an improved method for studying individual bacterial cells.
Apr 19, 2011
Tracking Cancerous Cell Scatter
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri has received a $270K NIH grant to generate a quantitative analysis of how epithelial cells scatter during cancer development.
Apr 06, 2011
FY12 TIER 1 Award Recipients
28 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY12 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different research projects.
Apr 06, 2011
ECM Stiffness Regulates Growth
ChE Associate Professor Anand Asthagiri was featured in the latest issue of the Journal of Cell Science describing how physical changes in the cellular microenvironment could play a role in cancer progression.
Mar 29, 2011
Congratulations Lauren Gianino
Lauren Gianino, a senior in Chemical Engineering and the Tau Beta Pi vice-president elect for '11-'12, won a TBP scholarship for $2000 based on high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession.