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A Letter from the COS Student Diversity Advisory Council Eboard
On this Juneteenth, a reflection on the history of unethical science.
June 19, 2020
Departments & Programs celebrate their seniors
Information about where and when the celebrations are.
April 23, 2018
Departments & Programs celebrate their seniors
Information about where and when the celebrations are.
April 23, 2018
Kenneth W. Henderson appointed dean of College of Science
Kenneth W. Henderson, a scholar of synthetic and structural inorganic chemistry, is a professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He will join Northeastern on July 1.
May 23, 2016
Meet Dan Blustein, A College of Science Twitter Ambassador
Dan Blustein is a marine biologist working on his PhD at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant. He is also a College of Science Twitter Ambassador.
March 18, 2013
Meet Emily Blackwell, a College of Science Twitter Ambassador
Emily Blackwell is a freshman psychology major, who plans to minor in art or American Sign Language. She is also a College of Science Twitter Ambassador.
March 15, 2013
Meet Joey Ostreicher, a College of Science Twitter Ambassador
Joey Ostreicher is a junior biology major on the pre-veterinary track. She is also a College of Science Twitter Ambassador.
March 13, 2013
Virtual Welcome Day
The College of Science would like to invite you to take part in a “virtual welcome day” Saturday, February 16, 2013. The event kicks off at 12 p.m., and will continue throughout the day, highlighting each of our programs. The schedule is posted below. This virtual welcome day will give you a chance to learn […]
February 11, 2013
Winter Storm 2013
The university cancelled classes Friday and is closed both Friday and Saturday. In addition, the Welcome Day for admitted students that was scheduled for Saturday has been cancelled.
February 08, 2013
Seminal conference to explore urban coastal sustainability
The majority of the world’s cities lie on a shoreline, and by 2020, two-thirds of all Americans are expected to reside in coastal cities.
February 05, 2013
Art + Science = Career
Senior physics major Emily Batt learned an important lesson by conducting research on melancholy 17th-century monks for a directed study as an undeclared freshman. “It was the first time I realized that one topic could be approached and understood from many different perspectives,” said Batt, who was named the 2012 student commencement speaker by members […]
April 26, 2012
Pushing Math To The Limit
You may not have taken a math class for many years, but you probably remember the equation “y = mx + b.” If pressed, you could probably recall the quadratic equation. And you might know that the square root of negative one is an imaginary number. For most of the adult population — including scholars […]
April 24, 2012
Scouting For Novel Bacteria
Few things are so mysterious as bacteria. Indeed, the Great Plate Anomaly has baffled microbial biologists for more than a century: While millions of bacterial species populate the globe, only about one-tenth of a percent are cultivable in the lab. The rest have long been considered “uncultivable,” but Northeastern biology professor Slava Epstein thinks otherwise. In two […]
April 22, 2012
Study: After 2,500 Years, Dead Coral Reef Comes Back to Life
A new study featured in Science suggests that coral may be able to recover from disaster. The paper, co-authored by Richard Aronson of the Florida Institute of Technology, combined the skills of several universities, including Prof. Steven Vollmer and PhD student David Combosch from Northeastern University. The study focused on the reefs off the Pacific […]
April 20, 2012