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Wearing a golden robe and black cap, Karl Anderson sat proudly in a suite above the field at Fenway Park on Sunday. On the field below, Anderson’s grandson Karlan DeWitt marched in the procession wearing his black gown and mortarboard. 

It was an intimate setting befitting their years of service. At a long table in a small room overseeing the Boston campus, interspersed among President Joseph E. Aoun and seven members of his Northeastern leadership team, sat nine exceptional students who will be graduating this weekend.

Pipe cleaners are essential for learning biochemistry. At least, that's what Dr. Stevens-Truss - a professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan - hammered home at her lecture last month.

“People are meant to exist in communities” The National Society of Black Women in Medicine at NU are making that change. Toun Olorungbemi, co-Founder & charter president of the National Society of Black Women in Medicine at Northeastern I am a Nigerian-American university student at Northeastern, studying Behavioral Neuroscience in the College of Science with...

Chris Jurcisin is in his 3rd-year here at Northeastern and is enrolled in the biochemistry program. Learn more about Chris’ successful first co-op with a start-up pharmaceutical company here in Boston. 1. Tell us about yourself. My name is Chris Jurcisin, and I am a 3rd-year biochemistry major. I chose this major because I have always been...

Four Northeastern University biochemistry students– Kai Beattie, Ashley Brown, Gabrielle Hernandez, and Joie Sun– represented the university’s American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) chapter at the society’s national meeting in Philadelphia.

Northeastern’s Ukraine Cultural Club, led by Deanna Zawadiwsky, a fourth-year psychology and economics major, met on Centennial Common to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The College of Science Excellence in Teaching Awards recognize and reward outstanding NU College of Science faculty for their significant contributions to student learning. We are pleased to announce this year’s winners.

Cameron Young recently earned the Churchill Scholarship for his impressive work in the field of biochemistry that will allow him to continue his studies at Cambridge university.

Biochemistry major Ellen Smith shares her co-op experience at CaNCURE.

Researchers at Northeastern and neighboring colleges say they’ve made a landmark discovery that takes a deeper look at the metabolic and biochemical origins of a debilitating genetic disease known to cause a range of symptoms and health problems. A new study, published Wednesday, focused on a severe neurodevelopmental disorder referred to as 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome,...

Jeffrey Agar and his colleagues are working on helping humanity develop treatments for hundreds of currently untreatable diseases