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‘Evaluation of Hydroclimatic Biases in the Community Earth System Model’
“The Mississippi River is a critical waterway in the United States, and hydrologic variability along its course represents a perennial consideration for trade, agriculture, industry, ecosystems, the economy, and communities. Simulations of past, historic, and projected river discharge have been widely used to assess the dynamics and causes of changes in the hydrology of the Mississippi River basin over long time scales and to put changes of climate in context. … Here, we compare observations and reanalysis datasets of key hydrologic variables to CESM1 output within the Mississippi River basin to evaluate model performance and bias.” Find the paper and…
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‘Machine Learning-Guided Field Site Selection for River Classification’
“Sufficient abundance and variety of field site sampling are crucial for obtaining an accurate reach-scale river classification of a regional stream network in support of scientific research and river management. However, many studies still randomly select field sites or only visit accessible streams. … This study developed a general and practical field site selection framework by incorporating machine learning in a human-in-the-loop manner.” Find the paper and full list of authors in International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
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‘Facing Distortion: Impact of Spatial Distortions on Upright and Inverted Face Identification’
“Face identification is a critical activity of daily living that may be impaired by blur or distortions caused by vision loss or prosopometamorphopsia. In this study, we examine the face inversion effect as a benchmark for understanding how distortions impact the identification of upright and inverted faces. Bandpass-filtered noise (Fpeak@1–32 cycles/face) was used to generate pixel shifts to distort calm and neutral faces from a standardized face database. … These results suggest that upright face recognition is most impacted by distortions at mid frequencies, whereas inverted face recognition declines more linearly as spatial frequency increases.” Find the paper and full…
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Second place at Climatech
Associate professor Leila Deravi’s innovation team secured second place at the Massachusetts Climatetech Studio Showcase, a groundbreaking initiative designed to foster climate innovation through entrepreneurship.
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‘A Quantitative Survey of Cogradient and Countergradient Variation in Nature’
“Gradient variation evolves when environmental and genotypic effects on a phenotype covary positively (cogradient variation) or negatively (countergradient variation) across locations, whereas gene-by-environment interactions (G × E) reflect nonadditive genetic and environmental influences on phenotypes. Spatial covariance in environmental and genotypic effects (CovGE) shapes variation in quantitative traits, facilitates local adaptation, and provides insights into eco-evolutionary dynamics.” Find the paper and full list of authors at The American Naturalist.
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‘Phenazines Contribute to Microbiome Dynamics by Targeting Topoisomerase IV’
“Phenazines are highly prevalent, natural bioactive substances secreted by microbes. However, their mode of action and potential involvement in shaping microbiomes remain elusive. Here we performed a comprehensive analysis of over 1.35 million bacterial genomes to identify phenazine-producing bacteria distributed across 193 species in 34 families.” Find the paper and full list of authors at Nature Microbiology.
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Aerial robotic wings — a patent
“Associate professor Alireza Ramezani received a patent for ‘Armwing Structures for Aerial Robots.'”
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Shafai receives lifetime achievement award for control systems engineering
“Professor Bahram Shafai received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th International Conference on Integrated Systems, Design and Technology (ISD2025) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to electrical and computer engineering for the advancement of robust control design.”
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Cassella and students win IEEE Outstanding Paper Award
“Assistant professor Cristian Cassella and his electrical engineering students, Onurcan Kaya, PhD’25, and Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’24, had their paper ‘Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterial Filters’ selected for the 2024 UFFC Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society.”
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‘Thresholds for ‘Byzantinism’ in Architecture Newman University Church, Dublin, and Early English Architectural Histories’
“John Henry Newman was installed as rector of the first Catholic university in the British Isles in 1854. The university church that he built in Dublin (1855–6) physically embodied the concept behind the unprecedented university – the provision of an learned Catholic alternative to post-Enlightenment secularism and Protestant hegemony – through a style-based analogy to the Early Church. … I argue here for the importance of features such as the convex leaf-cut capital, the stilted arch, polychrome stone cladding and ‘mosaic’ in our understanding of nineteenth-century Byzantine revival architecture.
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Improving communications with A
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Francesco Restuccia and electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for ‘System for Frequency Sharing in Open Radio Access Networks Using Artificial Intelligence.'”
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Ultra-efficient AI for wearables and IoT
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $560K NSF grant for ‘Designing and Optimizing Tiny Vector Symbolic Architectures for Ultra-Efficient Inference on Tiny Devices.'”
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Best paper award for wireless safety research
“Samar Elmaadawy, PhD’25, electrical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering professor and associate dean for research Josep Jornet’s paper on ‘Thermal and SAR-Based Limits for Human Skin Exposed to Terahertz Radiation’ won the Best Paper Award at the 5th International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt’2025) in July 2025.”
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‘Answering Three Talent Questions: A Strategic Playbook For Winning Through People’
“In today’s fast-moving business world, companies feel pressure to stay ahead, innovate and achieve results through people. As CEOs see talent as vital, HR questions become more focused and strategic. Still, many HR leaders struggle to give clear, business-oriented answers. The disconnect isn’t due to talent not being a priority, but because HR efforts seem fragmented. Initiatives are launched quickly, each valuable alone, but together they overwhelm leaders and misalign with business goals. This causes frustration, diluted impact and loss of trust in HR. To bridge this gap, HR must answer Marc Effron’s ‘The CEO’s Three Questions About Talent.'”
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‘Tuning Local Anisotropy for Macroscopic Auxeticity’
“This paper aims to design meta-lamina for desired properties including overall auxeticity via tuning local anisotropy of each discretized meta-patch. As an example, material system, meta-lamina with square patches is explored. By tuning the local anisotropy in each patch, desired overall elastic material constants, including the effective stiffnesses and effective Poisson’s ratios can be achieved. Interestingly, a large design pool for negative in-plane Poisson’s ratio are discovered and identified via systematic Finite Element (FE) simulations.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Materials and Design.
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Best presentation award on just-in-time learning
“Mechanical and industrial engineering associate teaching professor Marguerite Matherne received the Best Presentation Award for her paper ‘Effectiveness of Just-In-Time Teaching on Helping Students Achieve Lower Order Learning Goals in a Mechanics of Materials Class,’which was presented at the 2024 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Matherne was presented the award at the 2025 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference on June 24, 2025.”
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‘Structured Thinking for Smarter Decisions’ provides over 100 tools for better data comprehension
This new book, from Northeastern University professor and Jeff Bornstein faculty fellow Anand Nair, presents over 100 data visualization tools, frameworks and diagrams intended to increase clarity and comprehension of complex data. Aimed at CEOs, consultants, entrepreneurs, managers and students, “Structured Thinking for Smarter Decisions” will help you “Stop drowning in complexity” and “Start seeing with clarity,” according to the product page.
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IEEE best paper award goes to Jornet
“Electrical and computer engineering professor and associate dean for research Josep Jornet’s research on ‘Terahertz Band Communication: An Old Problem Revisited and Research Directions for the Next Decade’ received the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, which will be presented at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2025. This award honors the author(s) of an especially meritorious paper published in the past five years in a ComSoc owned journal dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope.”
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‘On-Demand Delivery of Fibulin-1 Protects the Basement Membrane During Cyclic Stretching in C. elegans’
“Basement membrane (BM) extracellular matrices enwrap and structurally support tissues. Whether BMs are uniquely constructed for tissues to undergo repetitive stretching and recoil events is unknown. During C. elegans ovulation, the spermathecal BM stretches ∼1.7-fold and then recoils to its original shape every 20 min to passage hundreds of oocytes. … Together, our study identifies an on-demand FBL-1 delivery system that protects the BM network when it is stretched, thereby allowing repeated rounds of tissue expansion and recovery.” Find the paper and full list of authors in Developmental Cell.
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“In this paper, we demonstrate that wormholes must be entangled regardless of asymptotic boundary conditions. By assuming black hole complementarity, we argue that traversable wormholes instantiate entanglement-assisted quantum channels and that this entanglement must be present between the stretched horizons as an initial condition prior to traversability. This result demonstrates the forward direction of the ER/EPR conjectures.” Find the paper and full list of authors in the International Journal of Modern Physics D.
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‘Why ‘Soft Skills’ Will Be The Most Valuable Investment Your Company Can Make’
“As industries automate more routine tasks, the demand for distinctly human skills is rising. Here’s how to equip your team to rise to the challenge.”
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Prometheus initiative aims for cleaner combustion technology
“Chemical engineering professor Richard West, in collaboration with Kyle Niemeyer from Oregon State University, was awarded a $599,925 NSF grant for ‘Disciplinary Improvements: The Prometheus Initiative: FAIR Model and Data Cyberinfrastructure for Predictive Combustion Science.’ By helping to transition the combustion research community from its traditionally closed nature to an Open Science and collaborative paradigm, this grant aims to demonstrate that the open, distributed and zero-barrier model of data sharing can serve as a model for other fields.”
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Hajjar receives SSRC Distinguished Member Award
“Civil and environmental engineering university distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) Distinguished Member Award, which is presented annually to an SSRC member who has actively served the organization for years and made outstanding contributions to its work and mission. Hajjar will receive his award at the 2025 SSRC Annual Stability Conference in Louisville, Kentucky in April, 2025.”
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‘How Emerging Market Multinationals Reshape Global Value Chains’
“Most studies on global value chains focus on advanced economy multinationals that develop products in-house and retain high-value added activities, while outsourcing low-value tasks, like component manufacturing and assembly, to emerging market suppliers. However, this dynamic is shifting as increasing numbers of emerging market suppliers are becoming multinationals and exerting control over more value chain activities. Initially positioned as suppliers for western brands, these companies have leveraged their roles in global value chains to learn, acquire advanced capabilities, and strategically expand through acquisitions.”
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‘Toward an Updated Corporate Governance Framework: Fundamentals, Disruptions and Future Research’
“This essay explores the evolving landscape of corporate governance amid global disruptions and changing stakeholder demands. We argue that traditional governance models are unable to effectively address contemporary challenges such as technological advancements, sustainability pressures, and geopolitical conflicts. While corporate governance has traditionally prioritized financial metrics and majority shareholders, there is a growing shift toward incorporating broader societal and environmental considerations. As a result, we highlight the need for a new corporate governance framework that supports the evolving nature of organizations and their corporate governance practices.”