Three Northeastern student-researchers have developed a screening chip that uses nanoparticles to detect colorectal cancer earlier than ever before.
A pipeline to successful business
Joseph Petrowski, CEO of Cumberland Farms Gulf Oil Group, said at Northeastern’s CEO Breakfast Forum on Tuesday that successful companies adapt and listen to their customers.
Collaborating to fight cancer with knowledge
Northeastern and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have announced an institutional collaboration to fight cancer by leveraging each institution’s expertise.
Cancer-detection nets entrepreneurial award
Pharmaceutical sciences professor Ban-An Khaw was named a Mass Challenge finalist for his ground-breaking technology to detect cancer at very low levels by tagging cells with a “Christmas tree” of radioactive markers.
Advancing women in academia
Northeastern’s NSF-funded ADVANCE initiative takes an interdisciplinary approach to promoting female faculty members.
Correspondence gaming in the digital age
An engineering capstone team brings together the advantages of online and in-person board games to create a classic experience that can be shared across long distances.
Engineering capstone offers independence to physically disabled
The first-place winners in this spring’s electrical and computer engineering capstone competition designed an eye-controlled robotic arm allowing paraplegic patients to feed themselves.
Designing a ‘star-making’ foreign-language learning program
Associate professors of graphic design and speech language pathology and audiology have teamed up to develop a computer program that helps teenage foreign-language speakers learn English.
3Qs: The driverless car
Marty Vona, an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science, discusses the technical challenges of Google’s newest venture.
Students take first place in National Security Innovation Competition
Graduate students conducting research at Northeastern University’s Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) Center have won first place in the 2012 National Security Innovation Competition held last month at … read more »
Celebrating intellectual property and the innovative spirit
On Thursday, students, faculty, alumni and guests from the School of Law commemorated World Intellectual Property Day, celebrating visionary innovators, their contributions and the role of IP.
Chemotherapy from the inside out
Distinguished Professor of Physics Sri Sridhar has been awarded a $560,000 grant from the Department of Defense to develop a technique for treating prostate cancer with nanotechnology.
