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Sep 09, 2010

ChE Alum Donates $12M

Chemical Engineering Alumnus George J. Kostas has donated $12M to build a homeland security research facility on Northeastern's Burlington Campus. This is the largest donation for capital in the University's history.

Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 07, 2010

Cancer Fighting Flowers

ChE Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons is using a $550K NSF grant to develop a method to boost the production of anti-cancer drugs that are produced by the Madagascar periwinkle plant.

Chemical Engineering

Sep 01, 2010

New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Edgar Goluch

DiPietro Assistant ProfessorThe Department of Chemical Engineering welcomes Dr. Edgar Goluch, the newest faculty member, who will be joining us in the fall 2010 semester. Dr. Goluch was attracted to […]

Chemical Engineering

Aug 30, 2010

Murthy Selected as Emerging Investigator

ChE Assistant Professor Shashi Murthy was selected for publication in a special edition of Lab on a Chip which features the top 22 Emerging Investigators of 2010 in the field of microsystems and microfluidics.

Chemical Engineering

Jul 19, 2010

Extracting the Cure from Flowers

ChE Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons has received a $550K NSF grant to increase the production of highly-valued medicinal alkaloids from the Madagascar periwinkle plant.

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering

May 27, 2010

Trying to Save the Forest

The Gordon Engineering Leadership Program has provided ChE Freshman Kassi Stein an opportunity to create a sensor that would identify the presence of the destructive Asian longhorn beetle in trees.

Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Gordon Engineering Leadership Program

Apr 28, 2010

Congratulations Alex Avekians

ChE graduate student Alex Avekians won the first place student poster award at the recent Electrochemical Society conference for the paper “Enhancement of ORR by Electrodeposited CoFePt Multilayered Alloys”.

Chemical Engineering

Apr 23, 2010

Sacco Awarded Distinguished Chemist

Professor Albert Sacco, Jr. has received the 2010 Distinguished Chemist Award by the New England Institute of Chemists.

Chemical Engineering