COS News

Bonnie Liu, fourth year cell and molecular biology major, is part of an organization that visits different places around Boston to play piano for geriatric patients.

The Importance of Research, our topic today, is always timely and always necessary. As a member of the College of Science, you may be asked something like: What exactly is research for and is it worth my tax dollars? And why don’t we have a cure for a specific disease? You can answer with something...

Alessandro Vespignani, director of Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, Guillaume St-Onge, a physicist at Northeastern, and colleagues have researched how monitoring wastewater from international flights can help scientists anticipate the next pandemic.

Northeastern University professor Craig Ferris worked on research that found that diet plays a role in the likelihood of someone developing Alzheimers.

Northeastern professor Jing-Ke Weng is studying how peanuts trigger allergic reactions by tracking peanut proteins in the body. This research could lead to therapies for peanut allergies and insights into how other allergens affect the body.

Some broadly required reading might be The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, (a pointer from my daughter). There would need to be an abridged version for children, but that’s easy and they would love it. According to the Guardian, the book is “a quietly profound, humane tour de force that tackles politics and gender issues...

TaKaya McFarland, Northeastern psychology student, is working on a manuscript for a paper on her attempts to develop a score, similar to the Adverse Childhood Events Score (ACES), that would help clinicians understand how vulnerable a person might be to psychosis, an event that is estimated to affect three in 100 young people.

A groundbreaking study by Geoffrey Trussell and James Corbett at Northeastern University, published in Science Advances, outlines one of the first examples of rapid evolution in a marine system in response to an invasive predator and warming oceans.

Chelsea Pe Benito, a Northeastern alumni who graduated with a BS in psychology, will be on the sidelines this Sunday as an NFL cheerleader for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Jing-Ke Weng, professor of chemistry, chemical biology and bioengineering, is conducting research with frogs that has the potential to help humans understand allergen detection.

Who are you?That can be a hard question to answer, really. At its limit, the response is your massive life story, still being told. It seems to me magical that without any effort by you, your story builds itself as you live, your events and feelings swirling and joining in deep, rich ways. I believe...

There are lots of threads swirling about, lots to consider. Most important is your health and wellness, so please take care of that above all else. At Northeastern University, we are always reinventing, and trying things out. It’s exciting and disruptive. It’s why I joined the university, and why Northeastern is leading innovation in higher...