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08/31/2026

Student Spotlight 🔦

Dylan Lasky completed his bachelor’s degree in bioengineering last spring and just earned a master’s in bioengineering through the PlusOne Program at Northeastern, alongside a graduate certificate in engineering leadership through the Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership.

Lasky’s interest in pursuing a master’s degree was planted early—during his first co-op, a colleague advised him to get the degree before spending years in industry rather than after. Already familiar with the PlusOne Program, he saw it as an efficient path. The decision to add the Gordon certificate came later, when a professor approached him after his Capstone presentation—a project called “Glaucoma-on-a-Chip,” a miniature device that mimics the part of the eye involved in glaucoma to aid in developing better treatments—and encouraged him to apply for the program. He researched it, decided to go for it, and has not looked back.

What drives him is straightforward: he wants to do work that is both engaging and meaningful, and bioengineering delivers on both counts. “The main goal is treating patients,” he says—and that focus keeps the work grounded. He has come to believe that “bioengineering is reshaping the world; we are doing things that no other scientists have done before,” and he wants to be part of that progress. With the technical foundation, leadership training, and professional experience he has built at Northeastern, Lasky is well positioned to be exactly that kind of force in the medical device industry.

Read the full story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/bioengineering-leader-in-the-making-dylan-laskys-story-at-northeastern/
Check out his program here → https://bioe.northeastern.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/bs-bion/
Learn more about the PlusOne here → https://bioe.northeastern.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/plusone-bion/
Find out more about the Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership → https://gordon.northeastern.edu/

08/28/2026

Student Spotlight 🔦

James Belanger, E ’25, biochemistry and bioengineering, completed two co-ops—one in a research lab and one in a hospital. With medical school beginning this summer, Belanger hopes to build a career that integrates his passions for both medicine and engineering.

Outside the classroom and the clinic, Belanger explored intramural sports—basketball, kickball, and more—finding both good exercise and a welcoming social community in the process. “I think there is something for everyone,” he says, “and if there is something you want to try, doing it through Northeastern is definitely the way to do it.” He also served as an emergency medical technician for Beauport Ambulance Service, responding to emergency calls and routine patient transfers. The mix of high-stakes moments and everyday care gave him a well-rounded introduction to patient-facing work, and he recommends the experience to anyone considering a career in medicine.

Belanger’s advice to current students is straightforward: try everything. “You’re not going to know what you’re into unless you give it a go,” he says—a principle he has lived by. He never would have discovered his interest in engineering had he not walked into Cornerstone his first semester. He encourages students to resist the “tunnel vision” that can take hold in a rigorous academic environment and to experiment broadly with both coursework and extracurriculars. Exploring your interests, he believes, “is the best thing you can do for yourself” as a student.

Belanger is now an M1 at Brown University's Alpert Medical School. We are incredibly proud of you, and wish you all the best!

Read the whole story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/engineering-in-the-world-of-medicine/
Check out his program here → https://bioe.northeastern.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/bs-bioc/

Over the next two weeks, tune in for our back to school content. We wanted to make sure that you are this coming year....
08/27/2026

Over the next two weeks, tune in for our back to school content. We wanted to make sure that you are this coming year.

As we move into the fall semester, let's revisit some lab safety for those taking chemistry, biology, and all other wet ...
08/26/2026

As we move into the fall semester, let's revisit some lab safety for those taking chemistry, biology, and all other wet based labs. Whether you are taking an intro lab or are fully immersed in your controlled environment and cleanroom era, these helpful hints will keep you safe.

08/24/2026

Student Spotlight🔦

Lawrence Ajayi is completing a PhD in chemical engineering at Northeastern University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Nigeria and his master’s in the same discipline from Ohio University.

A master’s degree, it turned out, wasn’t enough to satisfy his curiosity. As he began exploring PhD programs, Northeastern stood out for its research reputation and the quality of work its faculty were doing. The Co-op Program was a decisive factor: planning to move into industry after graduation, Ajayi wanted hands-on experience that would make him competitive in the workforce. Northeastern offered both.

For anyone considering a PhD, Ajayi’s most important advice is to choose both your advisor and your research topic with care. The degree is demanding, and genuine passion for the subject is what makes it possible to push through the inevitable obstacles. An advisor you work well with is equally essential—and while it can be hard to gauge that fit through the application process alone, he encourages prospective students to reach out to current lab members for candid insight into the advisor’s mentorship style and the lab environment. Once enrolled, he recommends doing a thorough literature review before setting foot in the lab: understanding the history, current state, major breakthroughs, and open challenges of your topic will give your research direction and save you from unnecessary trial and error.

Read the whole story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/sustainability-at-the-heart-of-chemical-engineering-research/
Check out his program here → https://che.northeastern.edu/academics/graduate-studies/phd-chme/

08/21/2026

Student Spotlight

Caleb Hagner is completing a bachelor’s degree in environmental and chemical engineering at Northeastern, with plans to continue into a master’s degree through the PlusOne Program. Northeastern had personal significance from the start: his grandfather, Ralph Johnson, graduated from the university as a mechanical engineer in 1947. Hagner felt that studying here would let him “carry on [his] grandfather’s legacy” and maintain a connection to someone who passed away when he was young.

He began as an environmental engineering major and later added chemical engineering to deepen his focus on the chemical processes involved in waste treatment. Hagner has gained experience in both academic research and professional practice, and each has shaped him differently. In the research space, he works as an undergraduate research assistant in the Water Resources and Ecohydrology Lab (WRELab) at Northeastern. His primary contribution has been to RAISE, a National Science Foundation–funded project investigating how flooding patterns in Maine will change over the next thirty years.

A core belief for Hagner is that engineering is fundamentally a form of public service. “Engineering without service is no longer engineering,” he says—and his involvement on campus reflects that conviction. He has been a member of Engineers Without Borders for three years, serving as both treasurer and design lead on a project in Uganda aimed at creating a community water system in Nakyenyi Parish.

As he approaches the end of his bachelor’s program, one piece of wisdom he wishes he had internalized earlier is that it’s okay to try something and discover it isn’t for you.

Read the whole story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/engineering-for-good-a-commitment-to-environmental-service-in-wastewater-management/
Check out his program here → https://che.northeastern.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/bs-ceee/

🌎This weekend begins an adventure for Associate Professor Michael Kane (CEE). Kane helped build a 14-hour building opera...
08/20/2026

🌎This weekend begins an adventure for Associate Professor Michael Kane (CEE). Kane helped build a 14-hour building operators training certification pilot, that he is now going to take to Argentina as a Fulbright Scholar, and translate the program into Spanish.

The program has a few primary goals: to introduce entry-level workers to modern automation and smart technologies that are being integrated into buildings — think smart battery energy systems and smart lights — and to train them to take a human-first approach when solving challenges, he explained.

The program does this by taking students through virtual walkthroughs and by having students complete building operations tasks using simulation software. Tasks include everything from checking thermostats to responding to building occupant complaints.

Kane will take this training program with him to the Instituto TecnolĂłgico de Buenos Aires, or ITBA, in Argentina and translate the program into Spanish as a Fulbright Scholar, a highly prestigious and competitive fellowship awarded by the U.S. government to academics doing important international work.

Te deseamos la mejor de las suertes! 🛫

Read the whole story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/translating-a-building-operations-pilot-with-fullbright-scholar/
Check out our Civil and Environmental Engineering programs → https://cee.northeastern.edu/

08/19/2026

MarCom Student Highlight Part 2!

My name is Amy, and I’m an incoming third year and am joining the MarCom team as one of the Video/Photography & Digital Content Co-ops! I’m studying Business and Design with a concentration in Marketing. I’m especially excited to share fun and innovative stories with the COE community. I look forward to checking out the makerspaces and labs, like the Kostas Research Institute, and I'm also excited about covering research expos.

Award Alert 🚨Today celebrates a double feature of student excellence. PhD student Stephen Adepoju (ChemE) represents the...
08/18/2026

Award Alert 🚨

Today celebrates a double feature of student excellence. PhD student Stephen Adepoju (ChemE) represents the best of our community. He has been selected for not one, but two incredible mentorship opportunities in chemistry.

First, the Merck Next Gen Leaders in Chemistry recognizes graduate students and post-doctoral fellows for their outstanding contributions to the broader chemistry community through chemical research, advocacy for diversity, equity, and inclusion in chemistry, and their potential to be scientific pioneers and innovators in the field. This cohort will receive Merck menotrs, opportunities to travel, and the ability to present at the 2026 Award Symposium.

Second, the American Society of Chemistry selected Adepoju as one of their 2026 ACS Future Pharma Innovators. This national cohort program selects the best and brightest to receive one on one mentorship, travel, and research opportunities.

Many congratulations on both of these amazing achievements.

08/14/2026

Student Spotlight 🔦

Jianglin Lu is pursuing a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Before beginning his doctoral program, he had already built a research record and accumulated publications in machine learning, with interests spanning multimodal large language models, generative AI, and reinforcement learning.

One of Lu’s recent projects tackles a fundamental challenge in AI: getting models trained independently on different types of data—such as images and text—to work together seamlessly. Because these models each develop their own internal ways of organizing information, their representations don’t naturally align, making integration difficult without additional training or shared data. To address this, Lu proposes the Indra Representation Hypothesis, which suggests that well-trained models naturally develop a shared understanding of how concepts in the world relate to one another—where each piece of data is understood through its relationships to other pieces. He formalizes this idea using an advanced mathematical framework and introduces a new method of representing data based on these relationships, enabling different AI models to be aligned with one another without any additional training. The work was accepted to the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2025, one of the top venues in AI research.

For fellow PhD students in computer engineering, Lu stresses the importance of building strong foundations. He points to Northeastern’s Advanced Machine Learning and Data Visualization courses as examples of the rigorous coursework available. He also encourages researchers to seek out collaboration at every level—with advisors, lab mates, and students from other disciplines.

Read the whole story here → https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/collaboration-and-commitment-creating-impactful-ai-research/
Check out his program here → https://ece.northeastern.edu/academics/graduate-studies/

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