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Students learn research skills through summer program
First-year students explored a range of research topics in the Summer Discovery Experience, an intensive summer initiative run by the National Science Foundation-funded PRISM program.
June 06, 2013
Marine Ph.D. Student Wins National Award
Chris Conroy has been awarded this year’s American Fisheries Society’s Steven Berkeley Marine Conservation Fellowship.
June 06, 2013
‘Battery’ to the Future
Mehmet Ates and Matthew Trahan are working with research professor K. M. Abraham to develop the next generation of energy efficient lithium batteries.
June 06, 2013
Marine PhD wins national award
Chris Conroy, a Ph.D. student at the Marine Science Center in Nahant working in Dr. Jonathan Grabowski’s lab, has been awarded the American Fisheries Society’s Steven Berkeley Marine Conservation Fellowship.
June 06, 2013
Genetics, communications, and advice from @girlscientist
Chris Gunter, aka @girlscientist, was the #sciencechat guest on June 5, 2013.
June 05, 2013
Unique degree program fills void in biotech industry
Northeastern’s Professional Science Master’s program in Biotechnology features a unique approach to graduate education.
June 04, 2013
An Innovation Ecosystem Drives Future for Nanomedicine
From targeted drug delivery mechanisms to supersensitive imaging techniques, nanotechnology holds many promises for medicine.
June 04, 2013
Becky Rosengaus quoted in Scientific American
From Infectious Selflessness: How an Ant Colony Becomes a Social Immune System. Rebeca Rosengaus of Northeastern University was impressed with the variety of experiments and analyses in the new study, which she says “provides further support that social immunity is a real phenomenon, not only in ants, but also in termites and probably eusocial wasps […]
June 03, 2013
Taking a Second Look at How Marine Reserves are Created
Overfishing has resulted in the serial depletion of fish stocks around the world and caused significant collateral damage to non-target species because of high levels of bycatch.
June 03, 2013
Professor Mark Williams Awarded $950K NSF Grant
The Williams lab was awarded a 5-year $950,000 NSF grant beginning March 1, 2013 to probe single molecule DNA-ligand interactions
May 30, 2013
Sex differences and stress
Assistant Professor Rebecca Shansky talks about her work in the Behavioral Neuroscience division of the Psychology Department at Northeastern University.
May 29, 2013
NASA, Researchers Use Weightlessness of Space to Design Better Materials for Earth
Researchers from Northeastern University are among the many scientists helping NASA use the weightlessness of space to design stronger and more sustainable materials here on Earth.
May 29, 2013
A sweet spot for coastal cities
In 1967, the year Northeastern’s Marine Science Center was established, the world was a different place.
May 28, 2013
A sweet spot for coastal cities
In 1967, the year Northeastern’s Marine Science Center was established, the world was a different place.
May 28, 2013