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David Medina, a doctoral student at Northeastern, is using bacteria to produce nanoparticles that are particularly effective at killing whatever type of cell was used to create them, including strains of bacteria that are resistant to traditional antibiotics. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Sep 20, 2019

Treating Antibiotic-Resistant Infections

ChE Professor Thomas Webster and his colleagues are using bacteria to develop nanoparticles that will combat antibiotic-resistant infections.

Chemical Engineering

Sep 12, 2019

ChE PhD students Bahram Saleh & Caterina Bartomeu Garcia are Finalists for Graduate Student Competition in Microbiointerface Research

Chemical Engineering PhD students Bahram Saleh and Caterina Bartomeu Garcia, from Professor Thomas Webster’s nanomedicine lab, have been called finalists for the upcoming AIChE 2019 annual meeting podium graduate student […]

Chemical Engineering

Cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials

Sep 11, 2019

Bencherif’s Research Featured on Cover of Advanced Healthcare Materials

ChE Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif’s research is featured on the front cover page of the September issue of Advanced Healthcare Materials.

Chemical Engineering

Photo of West

Sep 09, 2019

West to Work on Collaborative NSF Grant to Further Develop Cantera Open-Source Modeling Software

ChE Associate Professor Richard West is part of a $2.5M NSF collaborative effort to further develop and support the successful and popular open-source modeling software Cantera, a suite of tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.

Chemical Engineering

Aug 29, 2019

New Faculty Spotlight: Sara Hashmi

Sara Hashmi joins the Chemical Engineering department in August 2019 as an Assistant Professor.

Chemical Engineering

Aug 29, 2019

New Faculty Spotlight: Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones joins the Chemical Engineering department in August 2019 as an Assistant Professor.

Chemical Engineering

Aug 27, 2019

Auguste Awarded Patent for Chemotherapeutic Drug Delivery

ChE Professor Debra Auguste was awarded a patent for “Cationic polymers as co-drugs for chemotherapeutic agents”. Abstract Source: USPTO A method for treating a biological cell is disclosed. The method […]

Chemical Engineering

student group in spain at chemical plant

Aug 23, 2019

Dialogue of Civilizations: Process Safety Abroad in Spain

Twenty-one second-year chemical engineering students joined Professor Ronald J. Willey and Program Assistant Alexis Dubs (ChE’20) for a five-week study abroad experience in July and August 2019.  The dialog featured […]

Chemical Engineering