John Alessi is a Graduate Environmental Science and Policy Student. He is a recent Class of 2021 graduate.  Why did you decide to pursue a Master’s degree at Northeastern University? What did you feel this program had to offer to help further your career? “The most important aspect of my education was the co-op program. […]

Congrats to Allison Matzelle of the Helmuth Lab for winning a competitive university award to wrap up her dissertation in the coming months.

Recent PhD graduate Rebecca Certner and her advisor, Steve Vollmer, are contributing to the emerging field of quorum sensing as mechanism for coral disease development.

Jon Rodemann's research shows that predatory rates of fish close to shore are higher at low latitudes on the US east coast due to more species interactions.

Poster Award goes to . . . Alison Wirshing! Congratulations to Biology PhD student Alison Wirshing for winning the International Society of Differentiation Beverly McKinnell Student Award (and 1000€) at the Society for Developmental Biology Poster Competition this past weekend! Alison participated in the 75th Annual Meeting ISD 19th International Conference (http://sdbonline.org/2016mtg). After being selected […]

The Marine Science Center is proud to announce the successful PhD dissertation defense of seven graduate students in the past year: Althea Moore, Nicholas Colvard, Jennifer Elliot, Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Lara Lewis-McGrath, Christine Ramsay-Newton, and Lin Zhu. Upon successful defense of their dissertations, these students earned doctorate degrees as successful graduates of Northeastern’s Ecology, Evolution, and […]

The first annual MSC graduate student symposium was an opportunity for the community to learn more about the diversity of research going on, and for participants to gain peer feedback on their progress.

"Dr. Epstein’s research focused on what he believes to be the single greatest barrier in the way of understanding microbial life. It is known as the great plate count anomaly." –Joshua Timmons, Biology Class of 2017 for COS News

A new study lead by MSC researchers explores how variation among individuals of a marsh consumer species may impact overall community structure and dynamics.