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Psychology
Picking up PhD Research After the COVID-19 Quarantine
A look back on Northeastern research during the COVID-19 pandemic.
August 18, 2020
Marine and Environmental Sciences
What Can Ants and Termites Teach Us about Fighting Disease?
Associate Professor Rebecca Rosengaus shares the bizarre ways social insects have evolved to survive disease and how this may help humans survive them better too.
August 18, 2020
Here’s How Northeastern Will Test Faculty and Staff for the Coronavirus
Testing and keeping faculty safe is just as important as students for Northeastern. Here's how they intend to do it.
August 13, 2020
Northeastern’s Life Sciences Testing Center Secures Certifications to Process the University’s Coronavirus Tests
A brand new coronavirus testing facility on Northeastern’s Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts, will help the university’s efforts to keep its community and surrounding neighborhoods safe with extensive testing of students, faculty, and staff.
August 12, 2020
Physics
Louise Skinnari Wins Department of Energy Physics Grant
Physics Professor Louise Skinnari and her lab were recently awarded a multi-year grant from the United States Department of Energy. We caught up with her to discuss her experience at CERN, the transformative affect of funding on research, and her time at Northeastern. You have just received a DOE grant awarded in the field of “high […]
August 10, 2020
Physics
NSF’s Physics Frontier Center, The Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, expands to Northeastern
Northeastern will become the newest expansion for the Physics Frontiers Center program, under the direction of University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Bioengineering, Dr. Herbert Levine.
August 10, 2020
Marine Science Center
Shipworms Have No Problem with Bacteria Getting in Their Cells. Studying Them Might Help Explain Why Humans Do.
Caenorhabditis elegans, a transparent, microscopic worm, has evolved a way to take advantage of protection provided by nearby bacteria. This response could provide clues as to how humans coordinate our own cellular defense systems.
August 10, 2020
Biology
How a Freeloading Worm Might Help Us Live Healthier, Longer Lives
Caenorhabditis elegans, a transparent, microscopic worm, has evolved a way to take advantage of protection provided by nearby bacteria. This response could provide clues as to how humans coordinate our own cellular defense systems.
August 04, 2020
Scientists Still Don’t Have All the Answers about the Coronavirus–and That’s a Sign of Progress
Continuous talk about Covid-19 and how best to stop it proves that we're learning and adapting to it.
July 27, 2020
Marine Science Center
They’re Planning to Build a New Space Station… at the Bottom of the Ocean
The underwater research station will allow scientists and engineers to live, work, and conduct long-term experiments under the sea. Rendering by Yves Béhar, courtesy of Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center.
July 22, 2020
The CDC Is No Longer in Control of Covid-19 Hospitalization Data. Here’s What That Means.
Under a new federal mandate, the COVID-19 data that U.S. hospitals had been sending directly to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention are now being sent to a different central database, using a system run by a private technology firm. The change raised concerns among public health experts, who warned the new directive might be a […]
July 21, 2020
Psychology
Covid-19 Misconceptions Are Hard To Fight. Cognitive Psychology Might Help.
There are plenty of misconceptions about COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. And that’s especially true during a time when false information about the disease, the virus, and possible treatments is so hard to counteract. Different misconceptions about the coronavirus—about how it gets transmitted, and how it leads to COVID-19 complications, for example—can result from a limited […]
July 13, 2020
Disease Surveillance Leaves out the Communities That Need It Most
As the current COVID-19 crisis has made abundantly clear, public health agencies need reliable, up-to-date information to effectively address evolving health problems at local, state, and federal levels. Many agencies in the U.S. are looking to disease surveillance systems that incorporate hospital records and internet-sourced data to predict where and when the worst outbreaks will […]
July 09, 2020
College of Science
‘We Find Ourselves Asking Scientists to Do More than Simply Study the Virus’
We find ourselves asking scientists to do more than simply study the virus,” said Mark Patterson, associate dean for research and graduate affairs in Northeastern’s College of Science, in a conversation streamed on Facebook Live. “In state houses, in cable news interviews, and on social media, they’re translating their data into insights, recommendations, and even advocacy.” Patterson spoke […]
July 06, 2020