Professor Shimon Weiss wins Biophysical Society’s Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics for trailblazing contributions to the field of single-molecule fluorescence detection biophysics.   Weiss will be honored at the Society’s […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been selected to receive the Qian Baojun Fiber Award (Distinguished Achievement) for his “pioneering work of conducting organic fibers especially conducting polyaniline nanofibers.” Kaner received the […]

Professor Keriann Backus receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.   Backus received the award for her research titled “A […]

Professor Ken Houk has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory in nanotechnology.   Since 1993, The Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for Theory is awarded […]

Professor Abigail Doyle and alum Northeastern Assistant Professor Steven Lopez (PhD ’15, Houk) are co-PIs on the new $15M NSF Institute for Data-Driven Dynamical Design. The interdisciplinary, multi-institutional project, led […]

Graduate students Weixian Deng, Yi Xiao “Sean” Jiang, Maria Flores, Carter Lantz, and Logan Richards have been selected as 2021-2022 Fowler Fellows. Each Fellow presented a talk at the Audree […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been selected to receive the prestigious Max Planck-Humboldt Medal, which honors extraordinary scientists outside Germany with outstanding future potential. The medal is awarded jointly by Germany’s […]

Professor Abigail Doyle wins the ACS EJ Corey award for her outstanding original and insightful contributions to organic synthesis. Since 2004, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has honored young investigators […]