News
Feb 13, 2026
Patent for Increasing the Yield and Safety of Essential Cancer Medicines
ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons was awarded a patent for “Cultivation and treatment of plants for the production of plant-derived drugs.”
Jan 29, 2026
Woolston Receives ARPA-E IGNIITE Award for Biofuel Innovation
ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston was selected as one of 18 awardees to receive $500K for his project “Combining aerobic and anaerobic metabolism in a single bioreactor for transformative biofuel production metrics from C1 feedstocks” as part of ARPA-E 2025 Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) program.
Jan 29, 2026
Faculty and Staff Awards 2026
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 28th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Jan 28, 2026
ChE Research Team Featured on Protein Science Cover
Natesan Mani, PhD’26, chemical engineering, Raghavendran Suresh, MS’23, chemical engineering, and ChE/COS Assistant Professor Srirupa Chakraborty had their research on “Cleaved versus Uncleaved: How furin cleavage reshapes the conformational landscape of SARS-CoV-2 spike” featured on the cover of Protein Science.
Jan 28, 2026
Chemical Engineering PhD Student Wins First at Shark Night 2.0
Justin Hayes, PhD’25, chemical engineering, founder and CEO of Concordance Therapeutics, took first place at Boston Shark Night 2.0.
Jan 28, 2026
Barecka and Daramola Selected as Inaugural Advisory Board Members for Chem Circularity
ChE/COS Assistant Professors Magda Barecka and Damilola Daramola were selected to serve as inaugural advisory board members for Chem Circularity.
Jan 23, 2026
Spring 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, Bouvé, COS, DMSB, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. This group of students from across the university will explore a wide variety of topics and questions from developing brain-computer interfaces, to analyzing air quiality data to inform future legislation, Socioeconomic Factors impact on twin infants, and more.
Jan 20, 2026
A Link Across the Ocean Using Biomarkers in Oil
Assistant Professor Bryan James, chemical engineering, shares his research regarding the 2019 oil spill in Brazil, linking it to a German supply ship through biomarkers.