Professor Meni Wanunu is looking forward to the arrival of his newest intern from Peking University in Beijing, China. After tremendous success from the first Peking University intern, Wanunu is excited for the upcoming research and collaboration opportunities.

Rui Hu is an exchange student from Peking University in Beijing who has spent six months in Professor Meni Wanunu's lab at Northeastern University. Here she talks about her experiences as a graduate student researcher, working in Professor Wanunu's lab, and living in Boston.

A research team led by Meni Wanunu, assistant professor of physics and chemistry and chemical biology, has found that nanopores made of hafnium oxide slow the passage of DNA and are very stable.

Northeastern University physics Prof. Meni Wanunu has received an $825,000 award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)—an organization that supports the development of technologies to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing in an effort to broaden the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care.