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    Connie Phong wants to know how an animal adapted to live in a highly specialized environment — just below the freezing point for seawater — responds to warming oceans.

    How Northeastern scientists are using Antarctic sea spiders to study life on the edge

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    Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe has identified a way to target two of the deadliest cancer types with chemotherapy drugs but without the harms associated with chemotherapy.

    Northeastern researcher uses light to target and kill cancer cells

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  • Northeastern student helps shape US science policy during White House internship

    Northeastern student helps shape US science policy during White House internship

    Machayo was an intern with the White House Office of Science and Technology, where she worked on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a group of CEOs, presidents of top universities and nonprofit leaders in science and technology.
  • Embracing the Future: Sacha Sergent’s Commencement Address and Journey with the Northeastern College of Science Class of 2024

    Embracing the Future: Sacha Sergent’s Commencement Address and Journey with the Northeastern College of Science Class of 2024

    Commencement is nearing for the Northeastern College of Science undergraduate class of 2024! This year, at the College of Science graduation, Sacha Sergent will be speaking to her fellow graduates and leaving them with a final hoorah. To get in the excitement of commencement, I interviewed Sacha to learn about her time at Northeastern and […]
  • Parrots love playing tablet games. That’s helping researchers understand them.

    Parrots love playing tablet games. That’s helping researchers understand them.

    Touchscreens have long been integral to our everyday life — humans use them to work, play, talk with loved ones and snag Lightning Deals on Prime Day. In recent years, they’ve shown potential for the animal kingdom as well, leading to a growing body of academic researchand a proliferation of consumer products promising to leverage […]
  • Q&A with Lyric Westlund ’25, Science Connects to Innovation Scholarship Recipient

    Q&A with Lyric Westlund ’25, Science Connects to Innovation Scholarship Recipient

    Tell us about yourself. I am a third-year behavioral neuroscience student from a rural area called Perrysburg, about an hour south of Buffalo, NY. I love being outdoors. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and still find so much peace in places with more trees than people. I went to Iceland on dialogue […]
  • Student Club Spotlight: Community Palette

    Student Club Spotlight: Community Palette

    Looking for a creative way to give back?  Community Palette is a new club on campus that aims to serve individuals in underprivileged, clinical, and community settings in Boston through creative and visual arts initiatives. To learn more about this organization, I interviewed the founder and president, Seher Abbasi.  Can you tell me a bit […]
  • A research internship at a global pharmaceutical changed this former college basketball player’s career

    A research internship at a global pharmaceutical changed this former college basketball player’s career

    In 2022, Sade Iriah was pursuing a doctorate in neuroscience at Northeastern University when she seized the opportunity to embed herself in industry research at Takeda Pharmaceutical, a Japanese multinational biopharmaceutical company. Iriah worked with the imaging team at Takeda and says the experience was “amazing.” “They really allowed me to be involved with the […]
  • Northeastern co-op is a teacher, mentor, big sister and friend to 25 young women in a Cambodian dormitory

    Northeastern co-op is a teacher, mentor, big sister and friend to 25 young women in a Cambodian dormitory

    Cecile Doherty grew up in a typical Boston suburb and considers herself adventurous. So two things were very important to her when considering colleges.
  • Cross-country trek in electric vehicle tests the limits of charging network, finds faces tackling climate change along the way

    Cross-country trek in electric vehicle tests the limits of charging network, finds faces tackling climate change along the way

    When Northeastern graduate and TV show host Sophie Shrand decided she was going to make a documentary about taking a cross-country trip in an electric vehicle, she knew she needed to do more than just travel from Point A to Point B. 
  • How Northeastern student-athletes become champions on field and in classroom

    How Northeastern student-athletes become champions on field and in classroom

    They averaged a 3.411 GPA this past spring while also boosting the university to a No. 11 national ranking for athletic success. “I think people may not realize the demands that are on our student-athletes and how hard they work at both of their crafts,” says Jim Madigan, Northeastern’s athletic director.
  • Women Who Empower announce 2023 Innovator Awards winners

    Women Who Empower announce 2023 Innovator Awards winners

    Twenty-eight entrepreneurs have been recognized for their innovative, boundary-pushing work by Northeastern University’s 2023 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards.
  • Undergraduate Student Experience Spotlight: Hope Zamora

    Undergraduate Student Experience Spotlight: Hope Zamora

    I am Hope Zamora a major in behavioral neuroscience on the pre-med track. I am also in the Honors Program. I will be graduating in May of 2023.
  • Northeastern students mentoring young women in Cambodia

    Northeastern students mentoring young women in Cambodia

    Leading a women’s college dormitory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, may not be the typical place you’d find a third-year neuroscience and pre-med student like Northeastern’s Yueting Lu.