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A new tool to follow Ebola news on Twitter
A new Web tool co-developed by network scientist Alessandro Vespignani and his team at Northeastern's MoBS Lab pulls Twitter mentions of Ebola-related keywords and displays them on an interactive world map - allowing the public to follow the latest news and discussion in real time.
November 06, 2014
College of Science
What lights their fire
Four professors in the College of Science explain what drives their passion for science and discovery.
November 03, 2014
Big Data, innovative research
An interdisciplinary group of Northeastern faculty and students led interactive demos and presentations showcasing their research projects that leverage Big Data at the university's sixth Pop Up Open Lab Experience and Reception on Monday.
October 28, 2014
3Qs: Global impact of the Ebola outbreak
With the deadly Ebola outbreak continuing, Professor Alessandro Vespignani discusses the spread of infectious diseases.
July 28, 2014
The potential pandemic
In a recently released paper Alessandro Vespignani and his collaborators provide hard numbers regarding accidental escape of a lethal virus. And they aren't good.
November 28, 2013
Network scientists lead congressional briefing
Network science has the potential to solve major national challenges in health, security, and sustainability, said two Northeastern University professors in a briefing on Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C.
September 11, 2013
Local bioterrorism as a potential global threat
According to a new computer modeling research study from Northeastern University network scientist Alessandro Vespignani, when it comes to bioterrorist attacks, “diseases have no borders.”
July 17, 2013
Northeastern launches nation’s first doctoral program in network science
This fall, Northeastern will begin offering the nation’s first interdisciplinary doctoral program in network science, an emerging field that researches the underlying complexity that governs all systems.
July 09, 2013
Validation for Flu Prediction
As news of the latest outbreak is upon us, Vespignani and his colleagues recently published an article in the journal BMC Medicine that offers definitive proof of a strong agreement between the predictions and the real-life surveillance data collected in 2009.
January 07, 2013
Northeastern researcher elected president of the Complex Systems Society
The science of complex systems was born in the mid-20th century, but it has only recently begun to mature into a research field with real-world relevance.
December 04, 2012