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2018 Maurice Auslander International Conference

2018 Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures & International Conference The 2018 Maurice Auslander Distinguished Lectures and International Conference will be held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Quissett Campus in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA on April 25-30, 2018. Maurice Auslander (1926 – 1994) was an influential mathematician widely known for introducing, together with David Buchsbaum, homological methods in commutative ring […]
April 12, 2016

Student on co-op in South Africa starts soup kitchen

“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. […]
April 11, 2016

Putnam Exam 2015

The 76th Putnam exam was administered on December 5th, 2015. The Northeastern Mathematics team comprised 8 students who prepared for the exam throughout the Fall, with assistance and guidance from our Research Instructor Van Nguyen. There were 447 teams entered in the competition, and Northeastern’s team was ranked 55. Congratulations to all our team members […]
April 11, 2016

Six of Our Students Honored with Huntington 100 Distinction

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 […]
April 09, 2016

What social media data could tell us about the future

Can a flow of information across Twitter signal when a momentous event is about to occur? Northeastern’s Alessandro Vespignani and an interdisciplinary group of scientists developed a method to find out. Their findings represent an initial step in constructing models to detect trouble before it’s too late.
April 07, 2016