News
Mar 30, 2026
2026 Udall Scholarship Nominees
Melissa Bernardin, E’27, chemical engineering and environmental engineering, and Caleb Hagner, E’27, environmental engineering and chemical engineering, are two of four students nominated for the Udall Scholarship by Northeastern University.
Mar 30, 2026
Auguste Elected AAAS Fellow
ChE Professor Debra Auguste was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2025 Fellow in the Engineering section for seminal contributions to the field of biomaterials, particularly in the study of chemical and mechanical methods to enhance targeted delivery.
Mar 09, 2026
ChE PhD Student Wins Best Poster at ACS Women’s Careers in Chemistry 2026 Event
Rachel Shovmer, PhD’27, chemical engineering, advised by ChE Chair and Professor Rebecca Willits, received a Best Poster Award for her poster “Development of On-Demand Enzymatically Cleavable Granular Scaffolds to Examine Neural Stem Cell Response” at the ACS Celebrating Women’s Careers in Chemistry 2026 event.
Feb 27, 2026
Gallaway Appointed to Editorial Board of Energy Storage Materials
ChE Associate Professor Joshua Gallaway was appointed to serve on the editorial board of Energy Storage Materials.
Feb 27, 2026
Gallaway Elected Chair of The Electrochemical Society’s New England Section
ChE Associate Professor Joshua Gallaway was elected as the Chair of the New England Section of The Electrochemical Society (ECS), a significant regional leadership role within the international professional society dedicated to advancing electrochemistry and solid state science.
Feb 18, 2026
Cutting Costs for Biofuel by Combining Opposing Microbes to Optimize Manufacturing
New research from the Woolston Lab at Northeastern, led by Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Ben Woolston, is optimizing the biofuel manufacturing process by combining different types of microbes. To do this, they are putting them in the same bioreactor with little oxygen, hoping to reduce cost and resource use in the biofuel industry.
Feb 17, 2026
Patent for Using Nasal Stem Cells to Help Repair Damaged Nerves
ChE Associate Professors Ryan Koppes and Abigail Koppes were awarded a patent for “Differentiation of olfactory mucosa derived mesenchymal stem cells to schwann cells for peripheral nerve repair.”
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.”