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Oct 24, 2016
Dialogue of Civilizations trip to Italy, Summer 2 2017
What do weather prediction, the stock market, and phone call routing have to do with Galileo, Newton, and Leonardo da Vinci? Come to Italy to find out! Italy and the Scientific Revolutions Instructor: Prof. Waleed Meleis This Dialogue studies two revolutions in scientific thought: the Scientific Revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries and the […]
Oct 24, 2016
Reviewing New Hydrogel Implants
ChE Professor Art Coury was interviewed by Reuters to examine Cativa's new hydrogel implant in the article "Water-based implant new option for Americans with big toe damage". Source: News @ Northeastern “It’s a good thing for prolonging a joint’s use without doing something more drastic, like a total joint replacement … but nobody knows how […]
Oct 24, 2016
ChE Professor & Chair Tom Webster to Give Keynote Talk at the Annual MS&T Conference
ChE Professor & Department Chair Tom Webster will give a keynote talk at the Annual MS&T Conference discussing how nanomaterials alone, without pharmaectutical drugs or growth factors, are being used to control stem cell differentiation for a wide range of diseases, including infection, inflammation, cancer, and poor tissue growth.
Oct 19, 2016
Prof. and ChE Chair Tom Webster Publishes Book on Biomedical Nanomaterials
ChE Professor & Chair Tom Webster published a book entitled "Biomedical Nanomaterials: From Design To Implementation".
Oct 18, 2016
Prof. and ChemE Chair to give plenary lecture at Bioceramics 28
Prof. and ChemE Chair Thomas Webster will give a plenary lecture at Bioceramics 28 Oct. 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina where he will discuss his FDA approved nanostructured ceramic medical devices.
Oct 17, 2016
Professor Srinivas Sridhar Receives Three New Grants
Congratulations to COS Professor (BioE & ChE Affiliated Professor) Srinivas Sridhar who has recently received three new grants totaling $1.13M. 1. Quantitative Neurovascular Imaging for Drug Abuse Research (NIH/NIDA grant). The Sridhar group has developed a new ground-breaking technique QUTE-CE MRI that leads to quantitative MRI imaging with unprecedented clarity and definition using magnetic nanoparticles. […]
Oct 14, 2016
2 COE teams are MassChallenge Finalists
3DFortify founded by MIE Assistant Professor Randall Erb & PhD student Josh Martin and QSM Diagnostics founded by ChE Associate Professor Edgar Goluch were selected as MassChallenge finalists.
Oct 14, 2016
Prof. Webster gives Keynote at Inaugural Infection Control Summit of Boston Scientific
Prof. Tom Webster (Art Zafiropoulo Endowed Chair, Chair ChemE) gave the keynote address at the inaugural Infection Control Summit of Boston Scientific on October 11th where he emphasized the need for non-pharmaceutical approaches to combat infections. He also emphasized the need for more industry-academic collaborations in this area to reverse the alarming growing trend of increased […]