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Meet our new COS Faculty: Jorge Morales

This fall, Jorge Morales, PhD, joins the psychology department at the College of Science as an assistant professor. He will also hold a secondary appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Morales is currently completing post-doc work at Johns Hopkins University and starting his interdisciplinary lab at Northeastern. […]
September 13, 2021
09/09/21 – BOSTON, MA – Northeastern doctoral graduates take a selfie at the hooding ceremony in Matthews Arena on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

Northeastern doctoral students graduate amid Covid-19 and ‘unprecedented’ political polarization.

Doctoral candidates completed their graduate studies during a period of unprecedented disruption and political polarization—a fact that was front and center during Thursday’s hooding ceremony. The graduation ceremonies inside Matthews Arena began with doctoral candidates processing side-by-side into the arena wearing the customary academic garb. They were members of the classes of 2019, 2020, and […]
September 13, 2021
Adrian Feiguin Arun Bansil, University Distinguished Professor and Adrian Feiguin, associate professor. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Using this billion-dollar laser, physicists hope to probe the quantum world for new discoveries

Say you’re an aspiring physicist, probing the quantum world to gain insight into the fundamental nature of reality. There are two ways to go about your scientific odyssey, but both involve very expensive machinery. One way is to smash a bunch of atoms together, revealing their subatomic guts; another is to toss them under a […]
September 13, 2021
8/30/21- BOSTON, MA- Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Carla Mattos works in Hurtig Hall at Northeastern on Monday, August 30, 2021. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

This mysterious on-off switch holds clues to new cancer treatments

Within each of our cells, there’s an on-off switch that controls when cells divide and reproduce. The metaphorical finger that flips this switch is a protein called RAS. Under normal circumstances, RAS switches on to help our bodies repair wounds or replenish cells, to name a few of its functions. But sometimes, the switch gets […]
September 01, 2021
Stephen Schneider poses for a picture with plant collections.
08/25/21 – BOSTON, MA – New Northeastern arborist Stephen Schneider poses for a portrait on Wednesday, August 25, 2021. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University
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He cultivates the campus’s ‘urban forest’ with an eye on the future.

It is a sticky, tropical day in August, making the Boston campus feel like an open-air blast furnace. Good thing Northeastern has nearly 1,500 trees to absorb some of the heat, or it could feel a lot worse, says Stephen Schneider, the university’s new chief arborist. “One of the more beneficial aspects of this urban […]
August 27, 2021
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08/26/21 – BOSTON, MA – Oysters at the Nahant Campus. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

If we don’t halt climate change, the world’s oceans may never be the same.

The vast majority of the world’s oceans may never be the same if humanity doesn’t curb our carbon emissions. As much as 95% of the climates in the surface ocean that exist today could completely disappear within 80 years, according to new research led by Katie Lotterhos, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at […]
August 27, 2021