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A child illuminates hundreds of shoes at a memorial for those killed by Hurricane Maria, in front of the Puerto Rico Capitol, in San Juan, Friday, June 1, 2018. AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa

Here’s the Secret to Unlocking Our Compassion in the Face of Mass Suffering

Psychology

David DeSteno and Daniel Lim found that people are more likely to feel compassion in the face of mass suffering if they believe they can make a difference. Compassion, it seems, is a skill you can strengthen, which is great news for society in general.

08/16/19 - BOSTON, MA. - Herbert Levine, University Distinguished professor in Physics, works with graduate student Shubham Tripathi in the new Center for the Physics Underlying Mammalian Biology and Complex Diseases on August 16, 2019. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Herbert Levine, University Distinguished Professor of Physics, looks over research with graduate student Shubham Tripathi in the new Center for the Physics Underlying Mammalian Biology and Complex Diseases. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

He’s Using Theoretical Physics to Make Sense of Cancer

Biology, Physics

Biology isn't just for biologists anymore. Herbert Levine is one of the scientists tackling biological research from an interdisciplinary perspective - in his case, physics.

Northeastern Mathematics Hosts Quantum Structures Conference

Mathematics

The Northeastern Mathematics Department will be hosting a conference on Quantum Structures in Algebra and Geometry from August 26-30

08/13/19 - BOSTON, MA. - Penny Beuning and Mary Jo Ondrechen work in their lab in Hurtig Hall on August 13, 2019. Beuning and Ondrechen analyze amino acids to to create a new way of identifying what different proteins in our body do. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Penny Beuning and Mary Jo Ondrechen, Northeastern professors of chemistry and chemical biology, are developing new ways to predict the function of an enzyme by looking at the roles of the individual amino acids that make up its structure. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

They Want to Reveal the Chemistry of Every Enzyme Ever

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern are using a combination of computational predictions and experimental testing to explore the connection between the chemical make-up of an enzyme and its function.

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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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In this photo taken Wednesday, May 30, 2018, a healthcare worker from the World Health Organization prepares vaccines to give to front line aid workers, in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Can the Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo Be Stopped?

Physics

The second-largest Ebola outbreak on record began in late July 2018 in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani and his colleagues are working with the WHO to help model and forecast different aspects of the disease.

09/14/15 – NAHANT, MA. – Kathleen Lotterhaus, Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at the Northeastern University Marine Science Center in Nahant. Photo by: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

When DNA Goes Upside-down, so Can the Research

Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center

In a new paper, MES Assistant Professor Katie Lotterhos examines the nature of inverted DNA and its effect on statistical analysis.

Richard Wamai, an associate professor of cultures, societies, and global studies at Northeastern, helped to build a research and treatment center in Kenya to combat visceral leishmaniasis, the second-most deadly parasitic disease after malaria. Photos by Natalia Jidovanu for Northeastern University

A nurse and pharmacist admit 10-year old Lopeto Losile to the new ward of the Chemolingot Sub-County Hospital. Losile’s father observes the process. Photo by Natalia Jidovanu for Northeastern University

A Disease You May Not Have Heard of Kills 20,000 People Every Year. He’s Working to Combat It.

Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Visceral leishmaniasis causes 20,000 deaths every year, yet many people have never even heard of it. Hopefully, the opening of a new research and treatment center at Chemolingot Hospital will change both of those things.

08/06/19 - BOSTON, MA. - Student Kieran McVeigh demonstrates how headphones are used for Psyche Loui and Ajay Satpute’s research on the relationship between musical anhedonia and autism spectrum disorders in the Biomedical Imaging Center in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on August 06, 2019. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Assistant music professor Psyche Loui and assistant psychology professor Ajay Satpute are asking if the phenomenon that makes music undesirable to some people could also be what impairs social bonding. Student Kieran McVeigh demonstrates how headphones will be used during this study. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

What People Who Don’t like Music Might Tell Us about Social Interaction

Psychology

Northeastern professors Ajay Satpute and Psyche Loui are studying the link between music and social interaction. They're asking whether the brain phenomenon that makes music undesirable to five percent of the population is also what impairs social bonding in people with autism spectrum disorders.

09/14/15 - BOSTON, MA. - Jared Auclair, Director Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory, leads the 2016 APEC Biotherapeutics Centers of Excellence Pilot Training at the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington on Sept. 14, 2016. Photo by: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern’s Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory offers hands-on sessions for individuals from academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and regulatory agencies in manufacturing and regulating drugs. Photo by: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

They’re Ensuring Quality Medication Gets to the Patients Who Need It

Biotechnology

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center is funding BATL's efforts to expand their ability to train people in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry in new medications, such as biologics.

The Mexican axolotl salamander can regenerate many body parts, including its limbs and the spinal cord. Photo by Artem Lysenko from Pexels

Eye of Newt and Leg of Axolotl: Northeastern University Hosted an International Conference on Salamander Research

Biology

Northeastern is proud to have hosted the 2019 Salamander Models in Cross-Disciplinary Biological Research Conference.

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