News
Oct 31, 2025
Turning Coal Waste into Treasure Extracting Critical Rare Earth Elements for Clean Energy
Chemical engineering student Lawrence Ajayi, PhD’28, received the Certificate of Merit (CoM) from the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR) for his research on “Effect of alkali-treatment on microwave-assisted rare earth elements extraction from coal mine tailings,” which he presented at the ACS Fall 2025 National Meeting.
Oct 28, 2025
Woolston Receives SIMB Early Career Award
ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston received a Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Early Career Award.
Oct 10, 2025
Eleven COE Students Apply for Fulbright
The Fulbright Campus Committee of Northeastern University, composed of faculty and staff from across the disciplines and colleges, announced eleven COE students and alums who applied for the Fulbright this year.
Oct 03, 2025
Fall 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Fall 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Oct 03, 2025
ChE Student Receives 2024-2025 Donald F. Othmer Second Year Student Academic Excellence Award
Quinten Neudorf, E’27, chemical engineering, was awarded the 2024-2025 Donald F. Othmer Second Year Student Academic Excellence Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Oct 03, 2025
ChE Student Receives 2024-2025 AIChE First Year Student Recognition Award
Catherine Connolly, E’28, chemical engineering, is the recipient of the 2024-2025 First Year Student Recognition Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Sep 23, 2025
2025 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Aug 22, 2025
Advancing Safer, Low-Cost Batteries for Grid Energy Storage
Chemical engineering student Eric Zimmerer, PhD’26, co-authored a paper with Rachana Somaskandan, E’25, Connor Fawcett, PhD’29, Assistant Professor Qing Zhao, and Associate Professor Joshua Gallaway on the “Dynamics of disordered intermediates during the two-electron alkaline MnO₂ conversion reaction for grid-scale batteries,” which was published in Joule