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Connie Phong wants to know how an animal adapted to live in a highly specialized environment — just below the freezing point for seawater — responds to warming oceans.
How Northeastern scientists are using Antarctic sea spiders to study life on the edge
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Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe has identified a way to target two of the deadliest cancer types with chemotherapy drugs but without the harms associated with chemotherapy.
Northeastern researcher uses light to target and kill cancer cells
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A celebration of undergraduate researchers
This fall, we celebrated the outstanding research opportunities offered to our undergraduate students, made possible through generous donors and initiatives like the new Dean’s Undergraduate Research Scholars program which aims to immerse students, as early as their first year, in the exciting discoveries being made in the College. Students (listed below) presented the important research […]
Undergraduates shine at Psychology & the Other Conference in London
This past July 13-14, Aaron B. Daniels, associate teaching professor of psychology, took 22 undergraduate students to run and present papers at a Psychology & the Other Conference, held at Northeastern’s London campus. The students were part of Professor Daniels’s Psychological Humanities at Northeastern University (PH@NU) Workgroup and were generously supported by the College of […]
How can physics models help prevent deadly stampedes at mass gatherings?
Northeastern professor Max Bi explains how crowd dynamics lead to stampedes, offering insights for safer venues and survival strategies.
Deadly amoebic encephalitis and brain-eating amoebas in the crosshairs of Northeastern researchers
Northeastern researchers are targeting brain-eating amoeba that cause a rare, but deadly, infection
This Northeastern co-op helped develop algorithms for high-performance “brain-inspired” computing hardware
Tedeschi worked in The Peter Grünberg Institute, which is one of 14 institutes within Forschungszentrum Jülich. The institute focuses its research on a few specific subjects: quantum materials, quantum computing, software systems and the area Tedeschi worked on — neuromorphic computing.
Why are we obsessed with vampires like Nosferatu? A psychologist explains the enduring appeal of these fictional bloodsuckers
The vampire is one of the most enduring figures in fiction. With another retelling of “Nosferatu” around the corner, a Northeastern psychologist explains why we are drawn to these horrifying, enthralling creatures.
Northeastern co-op students work to prevent neglected tropical diseases and birth injuries among women in rural Kenya
Northeastern students Abigail Binkley and Abigail Williams spent their fall semester in Kenya on co-ops that explored the ways education and culture can help prevent the medical crises from occurring in the first place.
Northeastern student went from classroom to cellular molecular biology research co-op
Sumedha Reddy Sudini, a biology student at Northeastern, works in a lab in EXP. She found a passion for lab work during her latest co-op.
‘Brain rot’ is Oxford’s 2024 word of the year. What does that say about society?
Adam Cooper, a teaching professor of linguistics at Northeastern, says this year’s selection illustrates how the evolution of language can hold up a mirror to society.
Are UFOs spawning a new religious movement?
As stigma around the topic of UFOs lessens, more people are attempting to make extraterrestrial contact to fulfill a yearning for spiritual transcendence, Northeastern expert says.
Northeastern University physics faculty bring a major international conference to the Boston campus
On June 3-7 2024, the Physics department and the College of Science hosted the 2024 edition of the Large Hadron Collider Physics conference (LHCP) on our Boston campus. This is one of the major international conferences in particle physics at colliders (the Large Hadron Collider and beyond). This conference is held annually on alternating continents, […]
Northeastern delegation heads to South Korea for pivotal UN plastic pollution treaty talks
The delegation that will attend the negotiations includes Maria Ivanova, Aaron Stubbins and six graduate students from the university.