Modeling air pollution in Boston
Senior Jenny Skerker spent the summer studying air pollution around the tunnel system created by Boston's Big Dig.
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Sanayei and collaborators receive NSF grant for structural health monitoring
Masoud Sanayei will help develop an advanced technology for real-time fatigue life prediction of structures.
Filtering clean drinking water
In the Summer Scholars program, junior Grace Aro made membranes and tested their ability to filter contaminants out of water.
Generating human neural stem cells
Process could pave way for engineering innervated tissues such as skin, cornea.
Parry named first Abriola Fellow
Amanda Parry was named the inaugural recipient of the Linda M. Abriola Graduate Fellowship in engineering. Learn more about Amanda and applying to graduate school.
Defying gravity with an inverted pendulum
Summer scholar Anu Gamage, E18, spent her summer developing an inverted pendulum that could continue collecting accurate measurements and balancing itself in the case of a cyberattack.
Student startup takes prize at $100k Competition
Mimir Insights creates researcher database for biotech industries.
Asatekin and Wendell named endowed assistant professors
Assistant Professors Ayse Asatekin and Kristen Wendell are appointed to endowed professorships in recognition of their outstanding research programs and potential.
Communicating health risks with visualizations
Associate Professor Remco Chang, students, and collaborators at Maine Medical Center created a project to investigate how older men with prostate cancer use visualizations to better understand their own health risk information.