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Bonnie Liu, fourth year cell and molecular biology major, is part of an organization that visits different places around Boston to play piano for geriatric patients.

Alessandro Vespignani, director of Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, Guillaume St-Onge, a physicist at Northeastern, and colleagues have researched how monitoring wastewater from international flights can help scientists anticipate the next pandemic.

Northeastern University professor Craig Ferris worked on research that found that diet plays a role in the likelihood of someone developing Alzheimers.

Northeastern professor Jing-Ke Weng is studying how peanuts trigger allergic reactions by tracking peanut proteins in the body. This research could lead to therapies for peanut allergies and insights into how other allergens affect the body.

TaKaya McFarland, Northeastern psychology student, is working on a manuscript for a paper on her attempts to develop a score, similar to the Adverse Childhood Events Score (ACES), that would help clinicians understand how vulnerable a person might be to psychosis, an event that is estimated to affect three in 100 young people.

Jing-Ke Weng, professor of chemistry, chemical biology and bioengineering, is conducting research with frogs that has the potential to help humans understand allergen detection.

Have you noticed that static electricity feels worse in winter? You reach for a door handle — zap! Hang your coat on a metal hook — zap! These small shocks can be both annoying and slightly painful. Static electricity is also why your hair might stand on end when you take off a hat or […]

Kate Stuntz, computer science and behavioral neuroscience major, competed in "Wheel of Fortune" and the episode airs on January 24th.

Northeastern Women's Hockey team won its third straight Beanpot Championship against Boston University at TD Garden.

New research from Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, and colleagues looks at the amount of processed food available in American grocery stores and its health implications.

Yihzi You, assistant professor of physics, received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Sciences Foundation to study specific interactions between subatomic particles.

Jacqueline McCleary, assistant professor of physics, helps explain the implications of the historical discovery of 44 stars by a group of astronomers.