Service-learning Expo First year students in Professor Begley’s Inquiries in Biology class have been engaged in Service-Learning throughout the fall semester and recently showcased their work at the university-wide Service-Learning Expo.   The students partnered with: Citizen Schools to create and deliver an after-school apprenticeship on microbes at Orchard Gardens Middle School in Roxbury Science […]

Service-learning Expo First year students in Professor Begley’s Inquiries in Biology class have been engaged in Service-Learning throughout the fall semester and recently showcased their work at the university-wide Service-Learning Expo.   The students partnered with: Citizen Schools to create and deliver an after-school apprenticeship on microbes at Orchard Gardens Middle School in Roxbury Science […]

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 […]

Ovary Regeneration? In a study published in the journal Stem Cells, Northeastern University biology professor James Monaghan and his team have discovered that these salamanders not only have the capability of re-growing limbs, they can also regenerate their ovaries and produce eggs throughout their lifespan. “When we remove a large portion of the ovary, it […]

Faculty Highlight: Prof. Erin Cram The College of Science Graduate Program staff talks with Prof. Cram about her research at Northeastern University in this faculty highlight. Can you tell us about your current research? We have two current projects in the lab. They’re both overlapping with engineering projects. The first is to improve production of […]

“When Sophie Chaney packed up her bags and headed off to her co-op in Cape Town, South Africa, she anticipated working in the field for the South African National Biodiversity Institute. The biology major has done that, often collecting pollen samples from flowers in order to compare them to other samples captured in other areas. […]

Huntington 100 Program Awards Six Distinguished Juniors and Seniors of Biology Department Majors this year! Congratulations to our Biology Department students: Berit Lindell–dual major in Biology and Sociology, Rebecca Larson–Biochemistry; Kristian Teichert–Biochemistry; Lola (Ololade) Akingbade–Behavioral Neuroscience; Ralph Peterson–Behavioral Neuroscience, and Madeleine Smith–Behavioral Neuroscience! These six students are being honored with the Huntington 100 award. The Huntington 100 program […]

Congratulations to both Johanna Farkas, Biology PhD Candidate, for being awarded the Dean's Excellence Award in Teaching and Brittany Berdy, Biology PhD Candidate, for being awarded the Dean's Excellence Award in Leadership!

" 'What con­trols how long an organism lives?' he asks. 'I study that ques­tion in worms, which are a great model because they live only about two weeks, so I can do exper­i­ments quickly and rel­a­tively inex­pen­sively . . . many of the genes that affect lifespan in worms affect lifespan in other organisms.' " – News@Northeastern article by Thea Singer

"Scientists and researchers. Educators and future doctors. These were the people behind NU Talk 2016, from the organizers to the presenters themselves. But the impacts and implementations that were presented do not just affect the scientific community. They are global, and they concern the future of society as a whole. The main idea of NU Talk 2016, which was January 28, 2016, was to voice student passions to a general…

"Temporal scaling would arise if all physiological determinants of the risk of death in C. elegans acted as if they were jointly governed by a single stochastic process whose rate constant alone was altered by interventions."

"Temporal scaling would arise if all physiological determinants of the risk of death in C. elegans acted as if they were jointly governed by a single stochastic process whose rate constant alone was altered by interventions."

"Assistant professor Nikolai Slavov upends conventional wisdom about protein synthesis, indicating an active, rather than passive, role for the machinery behind the process."–News@Northeastern article by Thea Singer