News

Feb 23, 2022
Engineering Student Selected as Northeastern’s First Churchill Scholar
Cameron Young, E’22, chemical engineering and biochemistry, is the first Northeastern student to be selected for the prestigious Churchill Scholarship, which will allow him to study breast cancer at Cambridge University in England.

Feb 22, 2022
Advancing the Development of 2D Polymers
ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig was awarded a $275k grant by the Army Research Laboratory in continued funding for the development of novel chemical monomers and polymerization methods for 2D polymers.

Feb 07, 2022
Chemical Engineering Student Nominated for Truman Scholarship
Northeastern University has nominated Rachel Joseph, E’23, chemical engineering, as one out of four outstanding students for the Truman Scholarship.
Feb 04, 2022
Announcing Spring 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Several engineering students and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Spring 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards.

Jan 31, 2022
ChE PhD Student Receives ASPB Travel Award
Krystyna K. F. Traverse, PhD’23, chemical engineering, has been awarded a 2022 American Society of Plant Biologist Travel Award to attend the Plant Biology 2022 Worldwide Summit in Portland, OR from July 9-13, 2022. Traverse is advised by ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons.

Jan 31, 2022
Creating an Oxygen-Controlling Cell Culture (OCC) System
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $250K Partnerships for Innovation – Technology Translation (PFI-TT) grant to ChE Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif for “Cell Culture System with Enzyme-based Control of Oxygen Concentration to Enhance Biomedical Research”. The team includes graduate student Zachary Rogers, CEO of Cryoxia Biosciences, and technology commercialization expert/consultant Dr. James […]

Jan 27, 2022
2022 Spark Fund Awardees
BioE Professor Jeff Ruberti, ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston, and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng are recipients of Spark Fund Awards, which help Northeastern researchers bridge the gap between promising lab results and demonstrating a commercially viable prototype.

Jan 11, 2022
Creating a Device for Early Detection of Disease Using Exhaled Breath
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun and ChE Associate Teaching Professor Adam Ekenseair were awarded a patent for “Molecularly-imprinted electrochemical sensors.”