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08/11/20 – BOSTON, MA. – Associate Professor Rebeca Rosengaus studies social insect behavior and researches how insects control and contain pathogen outbreaks in their own colonies. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
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For ideas about fighting pandemics, look to termites and ants

Social insects like termites and ants have evolved many methods to combat disease. What can we learn from them in fighting human pandemics? A lot, says Rebeca Rosengaus, an associate professor and behavioral ecologist at Northeastern. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
June 01, 2021
06/10/19 – NAHANT, MA. – Students Jaxon Derow and Sahana Simonetti exit the water after collecting mussels for a research project at the Marine Science Center on June 10, 2019. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
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Northeastern’s award-winning coastal research campus in Massachusetts faces public vote

NAHANT, Mass. Northeastern students Jaxon Derow and Sahana Simonetti gather mussels for a research project at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center. For ecological forecasters at the center, mussels act as a barometer of climate change, and help researchers understand changing biodiversity in the Gulf of Maine. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
May 14, 2021
06/10/19 – NAHANT, MA. – H William Detrich Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences research focuses on antarctic fish. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

How Bill Detrich’s foresight led to the DNA sequencing of a rare icefish species

In 2004, Northeastern’s Bill Detrich had an idea ahead of its time: that scientists would one day sequence DNA from all of the Earth’s living creatures. Now, his efforts in anticipation of that genetics boom are paying off. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
May 10, 2021
Students in the Marine Invertebrate Zoology and Botany course search tidal pools for algae at the Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
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A day in the tidal pools with the Three Seas Program

Tara Duffy looked on as a handful of her students waded through tidal pools at the Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts, searching for algae and invertebrate creatures. It was a sunny day in February, with the kind of weather that arrives in New England to remind you to keep the faith, spring is just […]
February 26, 2021
11/10/2020 – BOSTON, MA. – Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in Northeastern’s Network Science Institute works at 177 Huntington Avenue on Nov. 10, 2020. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

They’re Harnessing the Power of Big Data to Track COVID-19 and Other Diseases

Around this time last year, Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, received a call from a senior producer at VICE News. VICE’s reporters had failed to get any useful data about COVID-19 cases from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Could he help? “Welcome to public health,” Scarpino told the […]
February 25, 2021
Sea Otters to come to Birmingham. A wild Alaskan Sea Otter in Resurrection Bay off the port city of Seward in southern Alaska. Two Sea Otters will soon become residents at the National SEA LIFE Centre in Birmingham after they were rescued and cared for by staff at the Alaska Sealife Center in Seward. Issue date: Thursday January 30, 2020. The two otters – whose species were once on the verge of extinction after being hunted for their thick, rich pelt in the 1800s – are being moved to the UK as part of a pioneering education and conservation project in partnership with the SEA LIFE Trust. See PA story ANIMALS Otters. Photo credit should read: Jacob King/PA Wire URN:49960059 (Press Association via AP Images)

Sea otters are a lifeline for reefs in a changing ocean

With their round, furry faces and tendency to hold hands while they sleep, sea otters seem almost perfectly built to appeal to our sense of the adorable. But they also play a vital role in protecting their ecosystem from the effects of climate change. Sea otters are what scientists refer to as a keystone species—their […]
February 02, 2021

Alum Q&A: Katie Merry ’16

Katelyn “Katie” Merry works as a Community Planner for the US Air Force in Texas. Katie was an Environmental Studies Major, Class of 2016 What made you interested in studying Environmental Studies at Northeastern? “I started out at Northeastern as an undeclared major and then I took a class with Professor Faber on climate change, […]
February 01, 2021
Koi fish swim in the pond next to the Curry Student Center. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
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Don’t worry about the koi fish on campus this winter–they’re just chilling

Tucked into the heart of Northeastern’s Boston campus is a tiny oasis from the hustle and bustle of city life. A koi pond, located between the Curry Student Center and Robinson Hall, sparkles in the sun and gurgles as a small waterfall splashes into it. Vibrant, nearly fluorescent koi flash just under the surface. But […]
January 21, 2021
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New Global Partnerships Expand Northeastern Ph.D Programs to Italy and Hong Kong

Northeastern’s doctoral students can forge global networks and pursue experiential learning in an international environment thanks to new agreements with a pair of widely recognized universities in Asia and Europe. The global experiential doctoral program between Northeastern, the University of Hong Kong, and Sapienza University of Rome is interdisciplinary flexibility, which allows students to pursue doctoral degrees in […]
December 17, 2020