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Murray Gibson Steps Down as COS Dean
Murray Gibson has decided to step down as the Dean of the College of Science, effective June 30, 2015. Murray’s tenure completes five years as the Founding Dean of the College of Science.
May 29, 2015
Finding a job after graduation
Psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett talks to Science about what students can do to better themselves in the job market.
October 01, 2014
Some scientists have all the fun
Northeastern's Mission 31 research team collected more than two years worth of data in just two weeks of the monthlong underwater research expedition. But even greater was all the fun they had.
July 25, 2014
Kristian Teichert – A Goal to Reach and Teach High School Students
College and high school students learning together? The thought of this intellectual cross-pollination is intriguing and the results are even more interesting. According to Kristian Teichert, a second-year College of Science student at Northeastern, this might be the future of education.
May 16, 2014
Prof. John Engen’s research featured in Cell
Congratulations to chemistry Prof. John Engen, whose sabbatical research was recently featured in Cell!
May 15, 2014
Prof. John Engen's research featured in Cell
Congratulations to chemistry Prof. John Engen, whose sabbatical research was recently featured in Cell!
May 15, 2014
Members of Congress visit Marine Science Center
The squirming claws of a blue lobster did not deter U.S. Reps. John Tierney and Katherine Clark from getting their hands dirty—and soaked—as they eagerly examined the rare species on Wednesday at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts.
May 15, 2014
Bonding Together to Fight HIV
A collaborative team led by a Northeastern University professor may have altered the way we look at drug development for HIV by uncovering some unusual properties of a human protein called APOBEC3G (A3G).
November 25, 2013
Prof. Don Cheney Retires, Leaves A Legacy & Support
After 33 years at Northeastern University, Dr. Donald Cheney is retiring, leaving behind countless grateful students and a long list of accomplishments in biology and marine science.
June 11, 2013
Prof. Don Cheney Retires, Leaves A Legacy & Support
After 33 years at Northeastern University, Dr. Donald Cheney is retiring, leaving behind countless grateful students and a long list of accomplishments in biology and marine science.
June 11, 2013
Language By Mouth And By Hand
Humans favor speech as the primary means of linguistic communication. Spoken languages are so common many think language and speech are one and the same. But the prevalence of sign languages suggests otherwise. Not only can Deaf communities generate language using manual gestures, but their languages share some of their design and neural mechanisms with spoken languages. New research by Northeastern University’s Prof. Iris Berent further underscores the flexibility of…
April 04, 2013
Can Meditation Make You a More Compassionate Person?
Scientists have mostly focused on the benefits of meditation for the brain and the body, but a recent study by Northeastern University’s David DeSteno, published in Psychological Science, takes a look at what impacts meditation has on interpersonal harmony and compassion. Several religious traditions have suggested that mediation does just that, but there has been no scientific proof—until now.
April 01, 2013
The Art Of the Higgs Boson
Toyoko Orimoto, an assistant professor of physics, recently gave a TEDx talk titled, "The Art of the Higgs Boson.”
March 20, 2013
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A bright future for infectious disease research
Every year, nearly a million people die from one of three infectious diseases that few of us have ever heard of.
March 15, 2013