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Jul 26, 2018
Developing Alternatives to Rare Earth Materials
ChE/MIE Professor Laura Lewis and ECE Professor Vincent Harris are working on alternatives to rare-earth metals which are used from everything from smartphones to guided missiles to reduce our reliance on China.
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Jul 25, 2018
Bencherif Receives DFCI/NU Joint Program Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif received the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Northeastern University Joint Program in Cancer Drug Development grant to study Cryogel-based tumor cell vaccines for prostate cancer.
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Jul 23, 2018
Gallaway Receives $104K ESS Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Josh Gallaway’s group received a one-year, $104k grant from the Energy Storage Systems (ESS) program at Sandia National Lab for “Understanding Phase Change Processes of Energy Storage Materials,” which will support a collaboration between the Gallaway group and Dr. Timothy Lambert in the Department of Materials, Devices and Energy Technologies at Sandia.
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Jul 18, 2018
Undergraduate Engineering Students’ work published at the ASEE2018 National Conference
Two undergraduate engineering student papers, written under the supervision of FYELIC Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran, were published and presented at the American Society of Engineering Education National Conference, on June 24-27, 2018 at Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Jul 17, 2018
Prof. Laura H. Lewis Selected for the 2018 Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honorees at UT – Austin
The University of Texas at Austin has selected ChE/MIE Professor Laura Lewis as one of the “2018 Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honorees”.
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Jul 09, 2018
Changing the Ways We Engineer Cancer Therapeutics
ChE Professor Debra Auguste is researching a different way to approach cancer treatment without taking an extreme toll on patients.
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Jun 27, 2018
Hydrogels Might One Day Replace Sutures
ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes and his colleagues have developed a hydrogel that could one day replace sutures and help support nerve growth and regeneration.
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Jun 25, 2018
ChE Students Present at AAASPD
ChE masters students (exchange students from Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spain) and a ChE PhD student had a wonderful opportunity to present their research at AAASPD’s (The American Association for the Advancement of Science – Pacific Division) 99th Annual Meeting in Pomona, California. Please see below for a list of each student and his or her presentation […]