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Jun 06, 2016

Chemical Engineering Well Represented at World Biomaterials Congress in Montreal

Northeastern had the highest number of presentations by faculty and students ever at the World Biomaterials Congress held in Montreal from May 17-22, 2016.

Chemical Engineering

Jun 06, 2016

Web Comics as Creative Outlet to Learning

ChE Assistant Teaching Professor Lucas Landherr, working under the pseudonym Dr. Dante Shepherd, has created a series of web comics not only as a creative outlet but also to help students understand difficult engineering concepts. Source: News @ Northeastern How do you cope with your unful­filled dreams? Do you cook or write poetry, run marathons […]

Chemical Engineering

Jun 03, 2016

Prof. Coury Facilitates Collaborative Biomaterials Interactions Between the US and China

ChE Professor Art Coury has made several trips to China in the past few years to setup biomaterial/bioengineering collaborations.

Chemical Engineering

Jun 02, 2016

ChE Chair and Prof. Webster to give Keynote at ACS Conference

ChE Chair and Prof. Tom Webster will give a keynote at the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry Conference at Harvard on "Making advances in nanomedicine that the FDA will approve".

Chemical Engineering

May 31, 2016

Chemical Engineering Honors Genzyme with Co-op Employer of the Year Award

ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster and the undergraduate co-op coordinators, presented the Genzyme university relations staff with the first ever Department of Chemical Engineering Award for Employer of the Year.

Chemical Engineering

May 27, 2016

Annabi Receives AHA Grant to Engineer Highly Vascularized Cardiac Tissues

ChE Assistant Professor Nasim Annabi received a prestigious grant from the American Heart Association to engineer highly vascularized cardiac tissues.

Chemical Engineering

May 26, 2016

West’s Paper is 3rd Most Downloaded Article on Computer Physics Communications

Assistant Professor Richard West’s paper “Reaction Mechanism Generator: Automatic construction of chemical kinetic mechanisms” was ranked third in the category of Most Downloaded Computer Physics Communications Articles

Chemical Engineering

May 24, 2016

Professor Lucas Landherr Launches Kickstarter Project to Produce Second Collection of Webcomic

Professor Lucas Landherr has recently launched a Kickstarter project to produce a second collection of his webcomic, Surviving the World, which he has written for eight years under the pseudonym Dante Shepherd.  He previously ran a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2013 that raised nearly $25,000, which he discussed in Northeastern’s Sherman Center’s Pathways to […]

Chemical Engineering