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Students study the Gulf of Maine’s rocky intertidal zone as part of a course focusing on how different societies around the world are responding to coastal issues. Courtesy photo Brian Helmuth

Here’s What Works–and What Doesn’t–when It Comes to Coping with Climate Change at the Edge of the Sea

The tanks at the Sai Kung fish market in Hong Kong were brimming with unusual creatures. Buyers chose from live mantis shrimp, sea snails, lobsters, clams, giant groupers, and arrays of other fish and had them cooked on the spot. There was every kind of seafood under the sun. And from all appearances, many of […]

08/07/19 - BOSTON, MA. - Steven Scyphers, assistant professor of marine and environmental sciences, and student Kiera O'Donnell pose for a portrait at the Marine Science Center in Nahant on August 07, 2019. Scyphers has received a grant from the Nature Conservancy to study the impact of Hurricane Michael in collaboration with colleagues at the U.S. Naval Academy. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Steven Scyphers, assistant professor of marine and environmental sciences, and student Kiera O’Donnell, at the Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Can Nature Reduce the Damage Caused by Hurricanes?

People tend to underestimate the power of non-engineered solutions that may complement seawalls. One of the best defenses against natural forces could be nature itself.

Katie Lotterhos, assistant professor in marine and environmental Sciences, holds up an oyster in her lab in Nahant. Lotterhos recently received a grant to work with a consortium of scientists across the East Coast to breed a better oyster. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Katie Lotterhos, an assistant professor of marine and environmental sciences, holds up an oyster shell in her lab in Nahant. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

How to Breed a Better Oyster

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center

A group of shellfish geneticists, including Northeastern professor Katie Lotterhos is trying to help the oyster industry select for the traits that will make oysters both thrive in their environment and melt in your mouth.

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun recognizes volunteers during the Network for Life event in the East Village. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

They Broke Barriers, Built Companies, and Became Role Models

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Northeastern honored alumni Carole Shapazian and James Waters, both of whom earned their chemistry degrees at the College of Science, with the prestigious Pioneer Award at Networked for Life.

09/25/15 – BOSTON, MA. – Biology students in the College of Science work on research projects in lab space at the Mugar Life Sciences Building on Sept. 25, 2015. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

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COS graduate bioinformatics program combines core coursework in bioinformatics computational methods, programming, and statistics with graduate electives that lets students specialize and build broader knowledge in both life sciences and computer science.

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Ten things to know about being on co-op at the world’s largest particle physics laboratory

Chemistry strudents on dialogue in Europe

Chemistry and Chemical Biology students on Dialogue in Europe stop for a photo at the summit at Bergstation, Eggishorn (Fiescheralp, Switzwerland).

Chemistry students head to Europe for research trip

Mathematics Professor Toledano Laredo Awarded Three-Year NSF Grant

Jared Auclair, the director of Northeastern’s BATL, principle investigator and the lead researcher for the grant proposal. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

BATL Awarded $4.3M MLSC Grant to Expand Facilities, Provide Biomanufacturing Trainings

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Research Grants Awarded to Two Undergraduate Students

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Dragon Prayer Book, Northeastern’s medieval manuscript. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Deciphering the Medieval Secrets of the Dragon Prayer Book

Biology

The Dragon Prayer Book is a medieval manuscript that had been neglected for years on a back shelf of Snell Library. Northeastern students Zak Ganhadeiro and Connor Hamill led efforts to analyze the book’s animal skin and decipher the lyrics to its chants.

Northeastern alumna Jesse Greif applies the skills he learned as a psychology major at Northeastern to his work at an innovative AI-based Wall Street startup.

Jesse Greif, executive at OneChronos Markets. Photo courtesy of Jesse Greif

AI’s Next Frontier: Stock Trading

Psychology

Jesse Greif earned his B.S. in psychology at Northeastern. He now is an executive on Wall Street at OneChronos Markets, a new Alternative Trading System that uses AI and Machine Learning to facilitate stock trading.

09/19/19 - BOSTON, MA. - Alessandro Vespignani and Kate Coronges pose for a portrait at the Network Science Institute at 177 Huntington Ave. on Sept. 19, 2019. The pair just received a $2M NSF grant aimed at Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations. This effort involves 6 Institutions (four of them international) to build an international community focused around the exploration of network science. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Kate Coronges, executive director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern and Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute and Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Sciences, and Health Sciences. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Everything Moves Through Networks. Here’s One Network to Rule Them All.

Physics

The network science institutes of Northeastern and Indiana University are leading a project to build international collaborations to explore multilayer networks and build a global community of network scientists.

This 2017 photo provided by NOAA shows bleached coral in Guam. A study released on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018 finds that severe bleaching outbreaks are hitting coral reefs four times more often they used to a few decades earlier. (David Burdick/NOAA via AP)

Marine Organisms Can Evolve and Adapt to New Climates. But Will They?

Marine and Environmental Sciences

A new United Nations report warns that the oceans have sponged up about a quarter of the total atmospheric carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels since the 1980s, changing the chemistry of the ocean at different depths and creating dangerously acidic and oxygen-depleted conditions for marine life.

PhD student Camille Martin conducts research on a sun-blocking chemical in Hurtig Hall. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Former graduate student Camille Martin, working with Northeastern chemistry and chemical biology professor Leila Deravi, has synthesized a chemical found in the skin of longfin squid. The goal? To recreate the animal’s natural sun-blocking ability. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Synthetic Squid Can save You from Sunburn

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Northeastern’s Camille Martin, a former graduate student, and Leila Deravi, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, are working to recreate a sun-blocking chemical that naturally occurs in cephalopods, a species that includes squid, octopuses, and cuttlefish.

Agnes Rafalko, Chief Scientific Officer at Glycomine

Small Pharma: Inside the World of Orphan Diseases, with Alumna Agnes Rafalko

Biology, Biotechnology

Agnes Rafalko got her PhD in proteomics and nanomedicine at Northeastern. She now works as the Chief Scientific Officer of Glycomine, a startup she herself founded that works on drugs for orphan diseases.

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