Renowned Economics Scholar William T. Dickens Appointed to Northeastern University Faculty (07/7/08) Northeastern University has announced the appointment of William T. Dickens as Distinguished Professor of Economics and Social Policy to the College of Arts & Sciences. Dickens will join the faculty of the School of Social Science, Urban Affairs, & Public Policy in the fall of 2008.
	Nanophotonics Research by Northeastern University Physics Professor leads to Nanomanufactured Optical Lenses (07/7/08) Led by Sri Sridhar, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Physics at Northeastern University, a team of researchers from the university’s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level.  Utilizing nanomanufacturing processes, the researchers were able to develop an optical microlens with a step-like surface, instead of a smooth surface, that has the capacity to operate at infrared frequencies using the novel phenomenon of negative index refraction.
	Northeastern University Engineering Design Project Helps Launch Startup (07/3/08) Student projects that attract venture capital money and launch startup companies are rare. A group of Northeastern University students have defied the odds when they helped to invent a biotech instrument that two years later turned into a company. CryoXtract Instruments, LLC, backed by investment firm Allied Minds, Inc., has been launched based on technology invented by Northeastern University students and Harvard Medical School.

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