News
Apr 19, 2023
Inside Rebecca Carrier’s Advanced Drug Delivery Research Lab: How a Practical Problem Can Turn Into One’s Life Work
ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier is researching the interactions between materials and biological systems, with a current focus on the intestinal environment and drug delivery, as well as retinal and gut epithelial repair.
Apr 19, 2023
2023 Huntington 100 COE Recipients
The 2023 members of Northeastern University’s “Huntington 100,” a group of undergraduate students selected for their outstanding achievements locally and globally, included 18 students from the College of Engineering.
Apr 15, 2023
Coury Receives Society for Biomaterials Award for Service
ChE University Distinguished Professor Art Coury received a Society for Biomaterials Award for Service, which honors significant service to the Society For Biomaterials in establishing, developing, maintaining and promoting its objectives and goals.
Apr 10, 2023
Sustainability Trips to Brazil Earn Professor Northeastern’s First Global Educator Award
ChE Associate Teaching Professor Courtney Pfluger received Northeastern University’s inaugural 2023 Global Educator Award. Pfluger’s work on developing meaningful cooperative partner projects, including nine Dialogue of Civilizations visits to Brazil since 2013, made her nomination stand out.
Apr 06, 2023
Carrier Receives Honorable Mention at 3-D ROC
ChE Professor Rebecca Carrier received an honorable mention during the National Eye Institute (NEI) 3-D Retina Organoid Challenge (3-D ROC). Carrier’s team created an organoid-microvessel co-culture system that proposes to add vasculature embedded in a biomimetic hydrogel to organoids to increase oxygen and nutrient flow and mimic the chemical and physical cues present in developing eye tissue.
Apr 06, 2023
Combating Chemotherapy Drug Shortages With Plant Engineering
ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons is developing methods to produce more plant-derived chemotherapeutic compounds to meet drug shortages. She received a Spark Fund award from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation for this work.
Apr 06, 2023
NSF CAREER Award for Examining Flow of Polymer Gels in Confined Spaces
ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi was awarded a $550,000 NSF CAREER award for “In Situ Polymer Gelation in Confined Flows” to examine how polymer gels flow through tight spaces to better predict clogging behavior such as blood flow through a vessel.
Mar 30, 2023
2023 NSF GRFP Recipients
Current students and alumni were recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers, early in their careers.