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    A new report from a group of Northeastern researchers explores across disciplines how biotech can ensure safe, sustainable life beyond Earth.

    The key to international space cooperation is developments in biotechnology, Northeastern researchers say

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    The NeuroPRISM lab, led by assistant psychology professor Stephanie Noble, makes tools that pave the way for reliable and reproducible neuroimaging of the brain.

    Precise maps of the brain’s deepest corners are made possible through tools developed by these Northeastern researchers

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  • This Soup Kitchen Needed Help. The Marine Science Center Faculty Delivered.

    This Soup Kitchen Needed Help. The Marine Science Center Faculty Delivered.

    When the COVID-19 pandemic forced My Brother’s Table, the largest soup kitchen on Massachusetts’ North Shore, to change how it serves guests, the community at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center took note, and stepped up.
  • Three Seas students take a closer look at marine predators and their prey

    Three Seas students take a closer look at marine predators and their prey

    A Three Seas Program alumni takes a closer look at fear and its effect on ocean prey.
  • Women in Science: Water Stewards

    Women in Science: Water Stewards

    Part 3: The Marine Science Center is highlighting faculty who are advancing scientific knowledge and removing barriers for the next generation of women in STEM.
  • Sara Schaal Wins the Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching

    Sara Schaal Wins the Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching

    Providing an innovative educational experience for our community of learners is a central focus of the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, so we are proud to congratulate this year’s College of Science Dean’s Award for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching, Sara Schaal. 
  • A 10,000-mile Journey for Microbes

    A 10,000-mile Journey for Microbes

    MELBOURNE, Australia—Andrea Unzueta-Martinez, a doctoral candidate at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center, moved to the United States to be a dancer but chose science instead. She spent three months at the Port Stephens Fisheries Institute in Australia raising oyster larvae.
  • Women in Science: Communicating our Impacts on Marine Communities

    Women in Science: Communicating our Impacts on Marine Communities

    Part 2: The Marine Science Center is highlighting faculty who are advancing scientific knowledge and removing barriers for the next generation of women in STEM.
  • Women in Science: Sentinels for Biodiversity

    Women in Science: Sentinels for Biodiversity

    Part 1: The Marine Science Center is highlighting faculty who are advancing scientific knowledge and removing barriers for the next generation of women in STEM.
  • From “Eww” to “Whoa”: Reflections on our School to Sea Programs

    From “Eww” to “Whoa”: Reflections on our School to Sea Programs

    As part of the School to Sea program, students from Lynn Public Schools had a chance to visit the Marine Science Center for some interactive learning, from touch tanks to Moon Snails.
  • Food, Forests and Fisheries: A Journey In Conservation and Food

    Food, Forests and Fisheries: A Journey In Conservation and Food

    Student Caitlyn Ark journals about her dialogue of civilizations experience in Romania and Crete.
  • A Close-up Look at the Mysterious Plague Sweeping Through Caribbean Reefs

    A Close-up Look at the Mysterious Plague Sweeping Through Caribbean Reefs

    Northeastern students are surveying a coral reef off the coast of Panama for signs of stony coral tissue loss disease, which threatens twenty species that comprise the heart of the Caribbean’s coral reefs.
  • Billions Of Tons Of Plastic Are Choking The Ocean. She’s Here To Clean It Up.

    Billions Of Tons Of Plastic Are Choking The Ocean. She’s Here To Clean It Up.

    Northeastern graduate Amanda Dwyer did her doctoral research on how corals survive changing ocean conditions. Her next task is to help reduce the impact of billions of tons of plastic in the world’s oceans.
  • All in the mud: nutrients and microbes aid understanding of marsh resilience

    All in the mud: nutrients and microbes aid understanding of marsh resilience

    Researchers in the Bowen Lab at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center are working to expand our understanding of salt marsh resilience to the threats of sea level rise.