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Two COS Students Earn 2019 Goldwater Scholarship for STEM Research
Two COS students have received the 2019 Goldwater Scholarship. With this award, they will continue STEM research in microbiology.
April 30, 2019
This solver of scientific paradoxes has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for Sciences
Kim Lewis, who has made several major discoveries in the fight against bacterial infections, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
November 28, 2018
These bacteria may be the key to treating clinical depression
Scientists estimate that we share our bodies with 38 trillion organisms that play an integral part in keeping us healthy and making us who we are. They crawl across our skin, cling to our intestines, and generally call our bodies home. Now, a study led by researchers at Northeastern shows that there is a potential link between the bacteria that live in our gut and clinical depression.
December 10, 2018
Prof. Win Chai receives an NSF Career Award
Congratulations Prof. Chai on your 2017 NSF Career Award! In [his] years at Northeastern, Chai has helped – in collaboration with research groups at Harvard – provide techniques essential to understanding and driving future research in this field. These collaborative experiences were driven by resources provided by the College of Science, he says. “The College of […]
December 06, 2016
Slava Epstein: From immigrant painter to world-renowned biologist
"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
January 21, 2016
Which studies got the most media buzz in 2015?
"The number one story [that generated media buzz in 2015] according to Altmetric: "A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance," [was] published in January [2015] in Nature."–ScienceInsider News Article by John Bohannon
December 14, 2015
That Takes Guts: Northeastern PhD Candidate Turns To Crowdsourcing for Data, Funds
"Philip Strandwitz wants you. Really. He also wants all of your friends, and probably your parents and relatives, too. Strandwitz, a PhD candidate for microbiology in Kim Lewis’s lab, the Antimicrobial Discovery Center, is taking a creative approach to big data that could be a model for the future of science." –Emily Ashbolt, Biomedical Physics, 2017 COS News article
October 19, 2015