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Dec 07, 2016
Northeastern Chemical Engineers at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference
Written by Justin Ramberger, a fourth year BS/MS Chemical Engineering and Engineering Management student.
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Dec 06, 2016
Chemical Engineering Leads the Way at MRS with Record Number of Presentations
ChE students, faculty, and postdocs made 49 presentations at the 2016 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting and Exhibit.
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Dec 05, 2016
Webster Attends 1st IRCTO Board Meeting and International Forum
ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster attended the inaugural board meeting of the International Research Center for Translational Orthopaedics(IRCTO)in Suzhou, China.
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Dec 02, 2016
Webster Receives Patent
ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster was awarded a patent for "System and Method for Attaching Soft Tissue to an Implant Comprising a Nanotextured Surface". Abstract Source: USPTO One embodiment of the present invention is directed to compositions and methods for enhancing attachment of soft tissues to a metal prosthetic device. In one embodiment a […]
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Nov 30, 2016
Bioengineering PhD Candidate Jaclyn Lock Wins AIChE Poster Competition
BioE PhD candidate Jaclyn Lock, advised by ChE Associate Professor Rebecca Carrier, was awarded first place in the AIChE Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD) poster competition.
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Nov 28, 2016
Creating Ultra-Thin Nanowires
ChE Professor Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy's research was featured in Nano Letters for her article on "Coupled, Simultaneous Displacement and Dealloying Reactions into Fe-Ni-Co Nanowires for Thinning Nanowire Segments".
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Nov 21, 2016
ChE Skyrockets in Representation at AIChE 2016
The ChE department had a 4x increase in presentations at the AIChE annual conference and the student chapter won 3rd place in the video competition.
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Nov 17, 2016
Su Featured in DOD Lung Cancer Research Annual Report
ChE Associate Professor Ming Su's research on cancer biomarker detection using phase change nanoparticles was highlighted in the recent annual report of Lung Cancer Research Program of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program of Department of Defense.