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Isaac Kresse, a chemistry and computer engineering student at Northeastern, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which he will use to study the role of chaperone proteins in age-related diseases such as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
‘What Happens on the Molecular Level to Make Us Sick?’
Isaac Kresse, a chemistry and computer engineering student at Northeastern, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which he will use to study the role of chaperone proteins in age-related diseases such as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern who has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, finds misinformation and myths about the brain everywhere. So she’s setting the record straight in a new book. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology
It’s Time To Correct Neuroscience Myths
Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern who has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, finds misinformation and myths about the brain everywhere. So she’s setting the record straight in a new book.
Fulbright scholar Zoe Bishop has always been intrigued by Eastern culture and traditions. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Biochemistry
Her Dream Didn’t Come True and She Couldn’t Be Happier About That
Zoe Bishop has been named a Fulbright Scholar and will spend a year in South Korea as an English teaching assistant.
Photo: A total of 11 Northeastern students have received Truman and Fulbright Scholarships in 2019. They’re serving underrepresented populations, searching for answers to some of the most vexing diseases, and fighting for gender equality. Composite image by News@Northeastern.
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Marine and Environmental Sciences
Northeastern Students Awarded Two Truman, Nine Fulbright Scholarships
A total of 11 Northeastern students have received Truman and Fulbright Scholarships in 2019. They’re serving underrepresented populations, searching for answers to some of the most vexing diseases, and fighting for gender equality.
Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts. Photo by Benjamin Bertsch/Northeastern University
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Marine Science Center
This Website is a Science Teacher’s Dream Come True
Northeastern’s Marine Science Center has created a new series of online educational resources for science teachers to use to inside and outside their classrooms.
Claire Celestin, a fifth-year behavioral neuroscience student at Northeastern, is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology
She Met a Peruvian Midwife, and That Changed Everything
Claire Celestin, a fifth-year behavioral neuroscience student at Northeastern, is the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship.
Northeastern hosted more than 100 high school students on its Boston campus Tuesday for Calculus Field Day, where the students competed in teams to solve challenging calculus problems and advance their knowledge of and passion for mathematics. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Mathematics
They Came for the Calculus. They Stayed for the Competition.
Northeastern hosted more than 100 high school students on its Boston campus Tuesday for Calculus Field Day, where the students competed in teams to solve challenging calculus problems and advance their knowledge of and passion for mathematics.
Paul Hand, an assistant professor in the College of Science and the Khoury College of Computer Science, is using neural networks to construct images and searching for the mathematical theories behind those networks. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Mathematics
Want Machines to Analyze Images Faster? Stay Out of Their Way.
Paul Hand, an assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to figure out how neural networks can be used to construct images, while searching for the mathematical theories behind those networks.
Professor Dagmar Sternad studies human movement with Boston ballet dancers in her lab on January 9, 2019. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University
Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology, Physics
What Secrets Do Ballet Dancers Hold For People With Disabilities? Or For Robots?
Dagmar Sternad is looking to ballet dancers to find answers for people with disabilities through studies of human motor control and learning.
Top row (Left to Right): A transition from normal epithelial cells in a honeycomb pattern to shifted cells. This transition leads to increasing disorder in their shapes. Bottom row: Simulated patterns from the theoretical vertex model recapitulate cell shapes and topologies. Experimental images are adapted from
Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez & Jennifer A. Zallen, Current Biology Volume 18 Issue 4 Pages 163-165, (2008)
Biology, Physics
These Cells Protect Your Organs, but Cancer May Send Them Running. Here’s a Theory Why.
Assistant Professor of Physics Max Bi helped develop a model of cell behavior, explaining why certain conditions cause epithelial cells to transition from a solid to a fluid-like state.