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Hockey star Megan Carter tells Northeastern graduate class to embrace challenges as something we ‘get to’ do — not an obligation
Build a team to lean on and view challenges as something you “get to do” instead of an obligation, Megan Carter told her classmates at Northeastern University’s graduate commencement Sunday morning at Fenway Park in Boston. “Putting in the work is something we get to do, not something we have to do,” said Carter, captain […]
May 05, 2024
From friendships to co-ops and bedazzled boots, Rebecca Bamidele urges graduates to cherish their ‘Northeastern resumes’
After her introduction from Northeastern Chancellor Ken Henderson, Rebecca Bamidele, the university’s undergraduate student commencement speaker, strode up to the dais to a roar of sustained approval from the floor seats at Fenway Park. After a few waves of applause, the biology and political science graduate, whose closest friends call her “Reebs,” took a deep […]
May 05, 2024
For undergraduate commencement student speaker Rebecca Bamidele, politics and medicine are a potent mix
This isn’t Rebecca Bamidele’s first speech. But it’s certainly the biggest. As senior class president, Bamidele spoke at her high school’s graduation in 2019. But the crowd on hand for Concord High School’s ceremony in New Hampshire numbered a few thousand. On Sunday, she may have an audience of more than 30,000 for Northeastern’s undergraduate […]
May 01, 2024
From TD Garden to Fenway Park, graduate student speaker Megan Carter is a hockey and academic star
When Megan Carter takes the Fenway Park stage Sunday as the student speaker at Northeastern University’s graduate commencement ceremony, she’ll be drawing from five years rich with experience. Carter leaves Northeastern as a hockey star who reached three NCAA Frozen Fours while earning dual degrees and completing two co-ops at Boston hospitals. She expects to […]
May 01, 2024
Can big data have a role in treating dementia? That’s what this Northeastern student is hoping to help solve
Dementia is a devastating condition that impacts more than 55 million people globally, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States alone, it’s estimated that one in nine people over the age of 65 has Alzheimer’s. Conditions like Alzheimer’s and other diseases that cause cognitive impairments can be difficult to treat. Early symptoms are […]
April 19, 2024
Northeastern co-op goes bananas with Santa Rosa Primate Project in Costa Rica
Leah Orman has some particularly unruly co-workers. They are small, fast and love climbing trees — and no, they’re not children. They are capuchin monkeys living deep in the tropical dry forest of Costa Rica’s Santa Rosa National Park. For Orman, a biology student at Northeastern University, this is her office, and there are no […]
April 10, 2024
From Undergraduate Lab to Publication: George Hatzis’ Biology Project Success
Biology Project Lab (BIOL 2309) offers an inquiry-based, intensive laboratory experience in which students can design and conduct independent research projects, applying approaches and techniques used in cell and molecular biology. In Fall 2021, George Hatzis (COS ‘23), took Biology Project Lab under Dr. Erica Homan’s instruction and recently his group’s findings were published in […]
March 15, 2024
Experimental antibiotic treatment for Lyme heads for human safety trials
Human safety trials of a novel antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease developed by Northeastern professor Kim Lewis are scheduled to start this spring in Australia, with results anticipated by fall. “Hopefully, the results will be positive,” says Lewis, University Distinguished Professor of Biology. So far the therapeutic agent, an antibiotic known as hygromycin A, has […]
February 28, 2024
Dean Hazel Sive edits volume detailing African frog research and best practices that informed her ‘life’s work’
Hazel Sive, the dean of the College of Science and professor of biology at Northeastern University, has edited “Xenopus: A Laboratory Manual,” a new textbook that presents “a comprehensive collection of experimental procedures for research using Xenopus,” according to the publisher’s webpage. Xenopus — a genus of African frog — make for versatile experiments, as […]
February 27, 2024
Q&A with NSF CAREER Award winner, Andreia Ionescu
Andreia Ionescu, a biology professor at Northeastern, recently won the 2023 NSF CAREER Award for her project: Understanding how the hierarchical organization of growth plate stem cells controls skeletal growth. Please read about how she narrowed her focus to skeletal biology and the revolutionary research happening at Northeastern. Can you tell me how you […]
February 26, 2024
Can space travel impact female fertility? Northeastern student takes part in NASA mission to find out
When he was in third grade, Dillon Nishigaya took a school field trip to NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, that would set the trajectory of his life.
January 05, 2024
Alumni Spotlight: AJ Addae, ’20
This Northeastern alumna is revolutionizing how science, art, and social change can be connected.
December 14, 2023
There’s an app in the works for that: Northeastern student developing program to connect researchers and study participants
Alexis Musaelyan-Blackmon has a lot of passions and is always working on a side project.
December 01, 2023
Breast Cancer Awareness Month: A Northeastern student’s experience in researching the hidden role of food additives
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, observed every October, aims to support individuals aected by breast cancer, enhance understanding of risk factors, encourage regular screening, and fundraise for research.
October 23, 2023