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Awards Heat Up This Summer!!!
I am very pleased to announce several awards our faculty won this month in this next newsletter. Whether for research, teaching, or alumni awards, our faculty and students continue to be recognized around the world for their leadership. A special thanks, also, to our Graduate Student Council this month for running the first ever Boston Area Researchers Symposium which included faculty and students from Tufts, Boston University, MIT, Umass-Boston and Harvard to discuss research collaborations and more. I could not be more proud of our entire chemical engineering family for all that they have accomplished!
Thomas Webster
Professor and Department Chair, Chemical Engineering
Art Zafiropoulo Chair in Engineering
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Chemistry & Pharmacology of Drug Abuse Conference 2018
Boston, MA - at NU!
August 2nd - August 3rd, 2018
Learn more
256th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
Boston, MA
August 19th - August 23rd, 2018
Learn more
Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting
Atlanta, GA
October 17th - October 20th, 2018
Learn more
Be on the lookout for orientation and "welcome back" events in September. The new school year is just around the corner!
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Cancer Therapeutics
ChE Professor Debra Auguste is researching a different way to approach cancer treatment that doesn't take an extreme toll on patients. She has been working on this fascinating research for over four years and was recently published in Nature Communications. Read more here...
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Distinguished Alumni Award
Professor Laura Lewis was selected for the "2018 Mechanical Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honorees" by the University of Texas at Austin. She has been named "Distinguished Mechanical Engineer". Congratulations Professor Lewis! Read more here...
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Energy Storage Systems Grant
Prof. Gallaway's group received a one-year, $104,000 grant from the Energy Storage Systems (ESS) program at Sandia National Lab. The project, titled "Understanding Phase Change Processes of Energy Storage Materials," will support a collaboration between the Gallaway group and Dr. Timothy Lambert in the Department of Materials, Devices and Energy Technologies at Sandia.
Learn more here...
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DFCI-NU Award
Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif has been awarded the DFCI-NU Joint Program in Cancer Drug Development award for his project titled "Cryogel-based tumor cell vaccines for prostate cancer". Congratulations Professor Bencherif! Learn more here...
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Young Innovator Award
Assistant Professor Adam Ekenseair was awarded the 2018 Nano Research Young Innovator Award (NR45) in recognition of his distinguished accomplishments and potential to make substantial contributions to the field of nanobiotechnology. Congratulations Professor Ekenseair! Learn more here...
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Level the Field
Professor Laura Lewis and Professor Vincent Harris are studying ways to loosen China's stranglehold on the market of vital materials for the manufacture of everything from smartphones to guided missiles. Learn more here...
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Fall HPLC Workshop
The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) is planning an HPCL workshop during the Fall semester. The workshop will be led by a Northeastern Chemical Engineering alumni who is associated with Waters Corporation.
Participation will be limited and on a first come, first served basis. If you wish to participate, please email Dick Giberti at dickgiberti@gmail.com. To help us with planning, please indicate your expectations of what you would like to gain from participating and suggested days and times during the week such a workshop would work for you.
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Mentoring Services for Students
Do you have questions about the various career paths in chemical engineering? Or are you an experienced alumni willing to help a student find their calling? The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) and ChE department are here to help! We facilitate a 1-on-1 mentoring program with over 70 alumni participating. Learn more here...
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The IAB and the Department of ChE have teamed up once again to create a volunteer website! Anyone with a connection to ChE will now be able to see some of the opportunities to volunteer and stay in touch with our department. Be on the lookout for this great feature coming mid-August!
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ChemE Graduate Student Orientation
Location - TBD
September 4th, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
*For incoming PhD and MS students only
Incoming Graduate Student Poster Session
CSC Rooms 340 & 440
September 10th, 2018
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
RSVP HERE
*All students and faculty are welcome to present and attend
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COE General Orientation
Blackman Auditorium
September 13th & 14th
13th: 4:00 pm - 6:00pm
14th: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Fall Semester Graduate Student Town Hall
Churchill Room 101
September 14th, 2018
11:45am - 1:00pm
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Come See How to Protect Your IP!
Hosted by the PhD Student Council and Graduate School of Engineering
CSC Room 333
August 9th, 2018
10:30 am - 11:30 am
RSVP HERE by August 6th
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Machine Learning
Second year PhD student Sai Krishna Sirumalla was one of 150 people selected from a pool of 3000 applicants to attend a Full Stack Deep Learning workshop at the University of California, Berkeley. He is using machine learning to predict properties of molecules and reactions. Sirumalla will be using what he learns at the workshop to help predict the combustion reactions of halogenated hydrocarbon fire suppressants and refrigerant fluids as part of Prof. West's NSF CAREER award.
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BAR Symposium Success!
The ChE Graduate Student Council worked extremely hard to plan the first ever Boston Academic Researchers Symposium this past month with the help of neighboring universities (Harvard, BU, MIT, Tufts, and UMASS Boston). The event included a poster session and a panel featuring VIPs from each university; including our very own department chair, Tom Webster. Learn more about this successful event here..
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COE General Orientation
Blackman Auditorium
September 13th & 14th
13th: 4:00 pm - 6:00pm
14th: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
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Upcoming Fellowship/Scholarship Deadlines
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Click on each scholarship name below to learn more about eligibility and requirements.
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Student Group Publications
Two undergraduate engineering student papers, written under the supervision of FYELIC Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran, were published and presented at the American Society of Engineering Education National Conference, on June 24-27, 2018 at Salt Lake City, Utah.
ChE undergraduate student Bailey L. Ritchie was an author on one of these papers titled Regenerative Braking System on a Conventional Bike. Congratulations Bailey! Learn more here...
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Seventh Annual FASEB BioArt Competition
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) invites researchers at all levels to enter the 2018 BioArt competition. Join FASEB in unleashing the art of science and help promote the beauty, breadth, and value of your research and the entire biomedical community.
Submit your most visually compelling research image or video by August 30, 2018.
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Acute Exposure to Commonly Ingested Emulsifiers Alters Intestinal Mucus Structure and Transport Properties.
Lock JY, Carlson TL, Wang CM, Chen A, Carrier RL.
Sci Rep. 2018 Jul 3;8(1):10008. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-27957-2.
PMID: 29968743
Engineering the Mucus Barrier.
Carlson TL, Lock JY, Carrier RL.
Annu Rev Biomed Eng. 2018 Jun 4;20:197-220. doi: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-062117-121156.
PMID: 29865871
A dabigatran etexilate phospholipid complex nanoemulsion system for further oral bioavailability by reducing drug-leakage in the gastrointestinal tract
By: Ge, Liang; He, Xinyi; Zhang, Yajie; Webster, Thomas J.
NANOMEDICINE-NANOTECHNOLOGY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE Volume: 14 Issue: 4 Pages: 1455-1464 Published: JUN 2018
Biomimetic Nanohydroxyapatite Synthesized With/Without Tris-Buffered Simulated Body Fluid: A Comparative Analysis
By: Rana, Deepti; Wang, Xiumei; Webster, Thomas J.; et al.
JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY Volume: 18 Issue: 6 Pages: 4423-4427 Published: JUN 2018
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