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Eugene Smotkin, professor of chemistry, was one of more than a million residents who lost power in Puerto Rico on New Year’s Eve. Issues with the power grid are not out of the norm but for Smotkin the bigger picture problem is the way Puerto Rico is treated by the US.

Lee Makowski, professor of bioengineering and chemistry and chemical biology, highlights the work of the Bioinovation Center, a partnership between Northeastern and Academic City University College in Accra.

Meredith McGowan, fourth year Marin biology major, designed a logo for the Cape Cod Coastal Resilience Week while on co-op.

Aaron Daniels, psychology professor, shares some tips to help you stick to your New Years resolutions.

Dear College of Science Faculty and Staff, Amidst the swirl of troubles everywhere, there’s a truth today that is much better. Let’s celebrate! We are through the semester, your students are taught, your grades are in!  Congratulations!!Thank You!!  Our wonderful Northeastern University students get the most exciting, important experiential education in any university, anywhere! You challenge, […]

Salt marshes like Belle Isle in Boston provide vital ecosystem services, but sea-level rise threatens their future without urgent restoration efforts.

Eliassi-Rad is one of several Northeastern researchers who have proposed a new area of study they are calling “Human AI Coevolution” to better understand and analyze these feedback loops. Other researchers on the project include Northeastern professors Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Albert-László Barabási and Alessandro Vespignani.

Northeastern researchers find a faster and more sensitive way to study proteins, which could lead to advances in disease treatment

Northeastern University professors explain how the axolotl — an adorable amphibian with a permanent smile and pink, feathery gills — has become so popular, and why it’s also critically endangered in the wild.

Ferris says that the study is “incredibly topical” as marijuana and Adderall are two readily available, commonly used drugs — especially among people in high-stress environments.

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 […]

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 […]