Kent Lee, PhD is a postdoctoral research associate working with Dr. Ajay Satpute in the Department of Psychology. He is currently researching how fear works in the mind.

Recently, Dr. Garces was awarded a Dean’s Postdoctoral Travel Award to attend and participate in the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Read on as she shares her experience at the conference and how being actively involved in ESA has enhanced her educational and professional journey.  

Frozen in Siberia, this mammoth was remarkably preserved at the microscopic level, Northeastern researchers discovered. Its DNA had remained the same for thousands of years, frozen as “chromoglass.”

Constantin Takacs of Northeastern loves to study black-legged deer ticks and Borrelia burgdorferi, which is good news for everybody else

Northeastern researchers have made what they describe as a groundbreaking discovery in the field of quantum mechanics. 

In the decade leading up to 2020, racial inequity in U.S. incarceration was trending down––until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. 

Science research breaks frontiers, to reveal the unexpected and the fascinating, and toward powerful solutions. Explore the achievements of the College of Scien ce in our 2021-2022 Annual Report, "Connecting with Excellence."

Biology professor, Kim Lewis' research points to potential cure for chronic Lyme disease.

Iva Halacheva explains her research involving knots in the fourth dimension.

Timothy Morris did not anticipate he would become an academic, but his career path led him to the position he now loves: postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern. Morris recounts his research journey, the significance of his current work, and why academia at Northeastern is his calling.

New sexual behavior is observed for the first time in shipworms by Northeastern scientists.

Growing up in a small Mexican town, Martin Rodriguez-Vega, a postdoctoral research associate in physics, felt disconnected from anything scientific. Now, as he studies the exotic properties of quantum materials, Rodriguez Vega finds that one of the most important parts of being a physicist is the bonds he’s formed with budding and accomplished scientists alike.