News
Jan 14, 2020
Lee-Parsons Receives 2020 ACORN Innovation Award
ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons received a 2020 ACORN Innovation Award from The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center for her project entitled “The Production of Chemotherapeutic Drugs from the Periwinkle Plant”.
Jan 03, 2020
New Faculty Spotlight: Benjamin Woolston
Benjamin Woolston joins the Chemical Engineering department in January 2020 as an Assistant Professor.
Jan 02, 2020
Landherr Elected Chair of AIChE K-12 Committee
ChE Associate Teaching Professor Lucas Landherr elected as the Chair of the AIChE K-12 Committee for 2020.
Dec 16, 2019
Bencherif Lab Receives ACORN Award
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif recently received a 2020 ACORN Innovation Award from The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center for his project entitled “Hypoxia-inducing cryogels as a fast and inexpensive technology for hypoxic cell culture conditions”.
Dec 13, 2019
Compressible Cryogels to Target Diseased Cells
ChE Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif created a sponge-like gel that can be injected under the skin to provide medication or target certain immune cells.
Dec 12, 2019
Webster Awarded Patent for Bacteria-Resistant Polymers
ChE Professor Thomas Webster was awarded a patent for “nanostructured bacteria-resistant polymer materials.”
Dec 12, 2019
James Sinoimeri to Present at International Exchange with German Chemical Society (GDCh)
James Sinoimeri, E’21, will be presenting his work from ChE Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif’s lab at a highly selective international exchange program of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society, GDCh).
Dec 11, 2019
Celebrating Co-op Employer Partnership with Morphic Therapeutic
Bells were ringing at the stock exchange in New York City for Northeastern co-op employer partner Morphic Therapeutic, where our engineering and science co-op students were afforded the unique experience to visit Wall Street and ring the bell for their IPO.