“The [Co-op Expo] event wel­comed nearly 300 stu­dents, fac­ulty, and staff. One of the atten­dees, freshman biology major Jenifer Obrige­witch, COS’18, noted that set­ting up your first co- op can be a rather daunting task. Luckily, she said, the expo helped her figure out how to con­nect with employers and ‘how easy it is to […]

“North­eastern University’s long- standing com­mit­ment to sus­tain­ability has once again gar­nered global acclaim: In rank­ings released ear­lier this month, North­eastern placed third among 301 schools from 61 coun­tries in the Uni­ver­sity of Indonesia’s fourth annual Green­Metric Ranking of World Uni­ver­si­ties. North­eastern placed first among all Amer­ican uni­ver­si­ties in the rankings.” –News@Northeastern Article by Jason Kornwitz

“Sir Richard Roberts, a Nobel lau­reate and glob­ally rec­og­nized leader in genomics and mol­e­c­ular biology, has joined North­eastern Uni­ver­sity as a Dis­tin­guished Uni­ver­sity Pro­fessor in the Col­lege of Sci­ence.”–News@Northeastern article by Angela Herring

Congratulations to Dr. Dori Woods and Prof. Jon Tilly on having a paper included in the recent Science Magazine special publication: Ten Critical Topics in Reproductive Medicine.

Abstract of paper co-authored by Prof. Yunrong Chai published in eLife Lens; DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01501

In 2012, Jonathan Tilly's team pub­lished research in which it iden­ti­fied that certain cells in adult human ovaries pro­duce viable new eggs.

Jonathan Tilly comes to Northeastern University from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Erin’s grant proposal, entitled “Transgenerational Immunity in the Dampwood Termite Zooterompsis angusticollis” was considered novel and the Nutting Award Committee believed this research had “the greatest potential to make a substantive contribution to the elucidation of basic termite biology”

Graduate Student Jessica Weaver wins an AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International) Shrader Scholarship!

Shradha Khadge, a 2012 graduate of the BS in Behavioral Neuroscience Program, wins a Harold D. Hodgkinson Award.

Lara Lewis, Doctoral candidate in Biology, is awarded the 2012 Northeastern University Graduate Community Service Award.