COS News

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...

Have you noticed that static electricity feels worse in winter? You reach for a door handle — zap! Hang your coat on a metal hook — zap! These small shocks can be both annoying and slightly painful. Static electricity is also why your hair might stand on end when you take off a hat or...

Kate Stuntz, computer science and behavioral neuroscience major, competed in "Wheel of Fortune" and the episode airs on January 24th.

I presented my abstract On Differentiable Correlation Functions at the American Astronomical Society Winter Session Meeting in Baltimore, MD. My work is important because it enables gradient-based optimization, enabling cosmologists to relate correlations to astrophysical model parameters. In my current extensions to this work, I have shown that it enables a new class of uncertainty quantification and alternatively...

Northeastern Women's Hockey team won its third straight Beanpot Championship against Boston University at TD Garden.

This is a long weekend all about power. The transfer of power from one US President to the next is always on January 20, according to the 20th Amendment of the US Constitution. And this time there’s overlap with another deeply important national day, that acknowledges the power of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, activist, philosopher...

First ever Athletics Co-op Fair helped connect student athletes to employers, and reinforced many athletes decision to come to Northeastern for its balance between academics, athletics, and job experience.