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Students capture the cyber flag
Students Michael Weissbacher, left, and Amat Cama, right, are members of Northeastern’s Capture the Flag team. Photo by Wil Robertson. Earlier this month, more than 1000 teams across the globe tried to...
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Plastics get a new lease on life as electricity generators
All photos courtesy of Yiannis Levendis. Here are two problems our planet needs help with: 1. Getting rid of all the trash we pile on top of it 2. Making electricity for us in a healthy, sustainable...
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A new wave for antennas
Photo by Brooks Canaday. From solar panels to high-resolution imaging, a host of advanced technologies relies on the manipulation of light waves. Engineers have traditionally bent light beams toward a...
View ArticleThin is in
Today, on the News@Northeastern, I have a story about a new paper recently released in Scientific Reports from College of Engineering professor Yung Joon Jung’s lab. The team has developed a...
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Paper towels that pack a punch against bacteria
Photo courtesy of Thinkstock. Of the three ways we can dry our hands after scrubbing down, the paper towel method tends to be the most hygienic. When I asked chemical engineering professor and chair...
View ArticleAlert 101: Airport Screening Technologies
Here’s a great video produced by the DHS Center of Excellence, ALERT, or Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (what is it about engineers and acronyms?!). ALERT 101 is a new series...
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The Internet is the new baggie sweatshirt
Photo via Thinkstock. I’ve written a lot about the ways technology can improve healthcare since coming to Northeastern. We have a great new graduate program dedicated to the subject and a slew of...
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Northeastern researchers on the Boeing battery failures
Photo via Thinkstock. By now you’ve probably heard of the Boeing 787 Dreamliners and the problems they had in their first weeks in the air. Basically, the Dreamliner is an extremely fuel-efficient...
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Healthy choices despite disparities
Interactive health technologies are a hot topic these days. Between Nike’s FuelBand and mobile phone apps like LoseIt!, the world has come to realize that interactive computing has a lot to offer the...
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Not your grandma’s Duck Hunt
Photo via Thinkstock. I’ve said it here before: I’m not much of a gamer. My 9-year-old nephew gets exasperated every time he sets me up in front of the Wii and ultimately just takes the controller away...
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Liveblogging the ECE capstone presentations
3:44pm: Time to breathe and my fingers hurt Well, the ECE capstone presentations are officially over. It was a great day and the projects were all incredibly impressive. The last one might even be able...
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Students capture the cyber flag
Students Michael Weissbacher, left, and Amat Cama, right, are members of Northeastern’s Capture the Flag team. Photo by Wil Robertson. Earlier this month, more than 1000 teams across the globe tried to...
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Liveblogging the ECE capstone presentations
Photo via Thinkstock. 4:16pm: The awards are in! Peoples’ Choice: ICD Second place: goCAD and 4G^2 Third place: TRAQ and ICD First place: Page Turner 3:44pm: Time to breathe and my fingers hurt Well,...
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Guest post: An underwater science ‘Mission’
This guest post is written by Lori Lennon, communications coordinator and senior writer in the College of Science. You could say I am a little biased, but the scientists here in the College of Science...
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Play your way to healthy
Photo via Thinkstock. Perhaps you’re like me and the only thing that even comes close to getting you to exercise is the threat of paying a boatload of cash each day you forgo an elevated heart rate (I...
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Build a game. Learn math. Be cool.
On Wednesday I met a man named Bob Cassels, a software developer at Google, who told me his children’s school recently announced that all its students would learn to code before they graduate. Beaver...
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Some summertime solar fun
The Stark Enterprises solar car. Photo by Jen Love. “The problem is that islanders on the Solomon Islands in remote villages walk two to three hours to collect kerosene for their lamps and cooking...
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Don’t delay: Early engineering intro pays off
Photo via Thinkstock. When Mohit Bhardwaj was a freshman in high school he traveled from his home in Lusaka, Zambia to Boston. with Lead America. For nine days, he and a group of 19 other students from...
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The new American hamburger…?
Photo by Victoria Henderson via Flickr. Twenty six billion pounds. That’s roughly how much beef Americans consume each year. We get it from some 33 million cows that are largely raised in centralized,...
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Emergencies in the digital age
Photo via Thinkstock. On April 15 I was walking my dog in Franklin Park, a big beautiful green space just at the edge of the city. At 3:32 pm my cousin sent me a text message: “You guys good?” “Yeah,”...
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