Research Connections

Professors Lee Makowski and Dana Brooks, and associate professor Deniz Erdogmus, all in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have been funded by the National Science Foundation to advance imaging and signal processing for X-ray solution scattering from proteins, in order to better understand their conformational variety, which will improve functional understanding and potentially [...]

Fiscal year 2012 was a record-breaking year for Northeastern University research, as reflected in the following metrics of research growth and impact: External awards exceeded $100 million Invention disclosures exceeded 100 (1 per every $1 million) Portfolio of 13 university spun out ventures, five launched in FY12 Research Innovation and Scholarship Expo (RISE) submissions up [...]

On July 4, 2012, scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland, announced the observation of a new, theoretically predicted particle, the Higgs boson, which has been called the ultimate building block for all matter. This particle was detected using a Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), developed by an international collaborative that includes Northeastern’s [...]

Northeastern healthcare systems engineering program receives major innovation award Healthcare reform has been the focus of intensive national debate, as policymakers work to control spiraling medical costs while extending coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. The recently upheld Affordable Care Act includes a wide variety of provisions designed to make medical care more accessible, affordable, [...]

As Congress winds down its work to head out on the campaign trail, it has not finalized FY13 Appropriations bills, which fund research funding agencies, or addressed the “financial cliff” before the election. Congress has now decided that it will pass a continuing resolution to keep the government running at current budget levels until March [...]

“A lot of dis­cov­eries in the lab­o­ra­tory are purely acci­dental,” said Swastik Kar, an assis­tant pro­fessor of physics in the Col­lege of Sci­ence. He and Yung Joon Jung, an asso­ciate pro­fessor of mechan­ical and indus­trial engi­neering, have received a three-​​​​year, $309,000 National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion grant to explore a phe­nom­enon they dis­cov­ered entirely by chance, which [...]

Last Fall Professor Luis Falcon who had been Vice Provost for Graduate Education since 2004 returned to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. I am pleased to inform the Northeastern community that Ni (Phil) He, Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has joined the Provost’s Office as Associate Vice Provost for [...]

We are pleased to announce a new internal grant program, developed in collaboration by the Office of the Provost and the College Deans, designed to stimulate and support interdisciplinary research at Northeastern and to increase the competitiveness of external proposals.

Heather Clark, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, explains her work developing nanosensors that are placed under the skin and fluoresce to indicate a patient’s sodium and glucose levels — which could one day be monitored via a smartphone.

Northeastern University has been designated as a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence funded by a highly competitive, five-year, $13.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI). The University will establish the Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine where a multidisciplinary team of scientists, industry and government partners will develop cancer treatments from discovery to delivery.