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Could Houses of the Future Be Made by Bacteria?
Imagine if we could grow a building the way coral polyps grow a reef, or if living cells in our clothes could break down sweat and body odor. It’s not science fiction, says associate professor Neel Joshi. It’s the future of scientific research.
February 10, 2020
Northeastern Mathematics Hosts Quantum Structures Conference
The Northeastern Mathematics Department will be hosting a conference on Quantum Structures in Algebra and Geometry from August 26-30
August 21, 2019
Cracking the Mystery of Cracks
Northeastern physics professor Alain Karma studies cracks. His work could lead to better batteries, tougher materials, and an improved understanding of how people age.
July 08, 2019
New $4.4M National Science Foundation grant supports minorities in fast-track biotechnology program
Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will announce Tuesday that a program developed by Northeastern and Middlesex Community College to offer students a fast track to earning associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees in biotechnology and preparing for careers in life sciences has received a $4.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund scholarships that support low-income and underrepresented minorities.
October 23, 2018
Mathematics professor receives NSF grant to build tools for network analysis
In a world full of networks, understanding them is surprisingly hard. This professor is working on building tools to help.
August 16, 2018
Physics professor receives NSF & DOE grants to study superconductivity and magnetism
Adrian Feiguin, assistant professor of physics recently received two grants to be applied toward two separate and exciting new research projects.
June 05, 2018
Math professors secure $2M NSF award
The $2.2 million award aims to recruit and train young people by engaging them in research in algebraic geometry and representation theory. The project involves all levels of education, from undergraduate to postdoctoral studies.
July 21, 2017
Northeastern chemistry faculty awarded $390K NSF grant for cephalopod research
Bio-inspired materials chemistry is a fascinating field that focuses on understanding natural biological systems and mimicking their properties in synthetic materials. An NSF grant will allow new Northeastern University professor to continue her research on cephalopods.
November 22, 2016
Psychology professor and colleagues receive $2.5M NSF grant
Lisa Feldman Barrett and several colleagues have received a three-year, $2.5 million dollar grant to "pioneer a new approach to enable communities to withstand and bounce back quickly from hazards."
August 10, 2016
Automating Solutions to Side-Channel Attacks
Side-channel attacks are an emerging threat to embedded systems. As a result, mathematics professor Aidong (Adam) Ding and colleagues are creating a tool that automatically corrects for side-channel weaknesses.
July 21, 2016
COS professors get NSF grant to study production of cancer drugs
Two professors - one from the biology department and the other from the chemistry and chemical biology department - have been awarded more than a half-million dollars to investigate the production of cancer drugs in Catharanthus roseus.
November 12, 2015
The rules of the water
This summer, an interdisciplinary research team led by Marine and Environmental Sciences professor Geoff Trussell will study community organization and connectivity of rocky intertidal habitats throughout the Gulf of Maine.
June 08, 2015
How does marine life survive climate extremes?
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Northeastern University has received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new ways to study how marine organisms respond to climate related severe temperature stress.
September 16, 2014
Two COS students earn NSF graduate research fellowships
Allison Matzelle and Tanya Rogers are among 2,000 awardees from a pool of more than 14,000 applicants to the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program, which aims to help ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States.
May 22, 2014