COS News

There’s a WORRY around that is almost something you can touch. I feel it from faculty, staff, students at every level. I feel your worry, I understand it and let’s have a chat. Externally, there are worries around the swirl of extraordinary actions of some government officials or un-officials, often the reversal of these actions,...

Let’s Stand Up for Science. And to do it, I want you (yes, you) to answer the question: ‘How have I benefitted from Science?” Give it a moment, and your answers will come tumbling in. They can start in the kitchen, where the coffee you just brewed and the cranberry bread you’re making for supper...

This week, I passed by a new construction, and maybe the smell of the concrete took me far back, to our friends, the Fishers. Marie and Terry Fisher lived way out in the dry highveld grassland near Johannesburg. Theirs was the only house for miles and they had a windmill. Terry was building their house, room by...

Steve Tedesco, COS alumni, is the CEO of Running Foxes Petroleum, a company that offers an alternative to finding locations for investors and companies to drill for oil.

This week, for required viewing, I might choose the Australian series Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix), that has clear lessons for those dangerously acting on our health and biomedical research landscapes. The series is factually based and follows two young women on their quest for ‘natural’ cancer therapies. One of the main characters has cancer but is terrified...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this first week of the semester, my sincere good wishes and hopes that your family and friends are safe in Los Angeles, and amidst other troubles across our nation and the world. On my living room table and some of my walls are drawings made by my dad, Frederick Sive. Dad was an electrical...

Dear College of Science Faculty and Staff, Amidst the swirl of troubles everywhere, there’s a truth today that is much better. Let’s celebrate! We are through the semester, your students are taught, your grades are in!  Congratulations!!Thank You!!  Our wonderful Northeastern University students get the most exciting, important experiential education in any university, anywhere! You challenge,...