College of Science News

Stress and fear have far-reaching effects that start in the brain and permeate an individual’s life in lasting ways. Together with the Dalai Lama and other experts, Northeastern neuroscientist Rebecca Shansky is confronting trauma head-on in an effort to help communities in Africa heal from conflict.

Congratulations to University Distinguished Professor Judith Hall in receiving the 2017 Career Contribution Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Northeastern Psychology Professor Rebecca Shansky will head to Gaborone, Botswana this August to partake in the Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, hosted by the Mind and Life Institute. She will share her research on the brain's response to stress and trauma on stage with other neuroscientists, activists, and scholars.

Several undergraduate student members of Prof. Coley’s CORE lab and graduate student Jessica Leffers recently attended the Association for Psychological Science’s 29th Annual Conference. Check out this article about their experience featured on the College of Science website here.

Psychology student Keeyon Olia has spent his co-op working at Roslindale Pediatrics assisting physicians in various tasks and having the opportunities to observe development of newborns in their first months of life. Learn more about his experience here.

Congratulations to Prof. Derek Isaacowitz for being named the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) next psychological sciences editor-in-chief of the Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. Prof. Isaacowitz says about his new role as editor: “This is such an exciting time for the psychological study of aging and gerontology, with new […]

John Coley, a psychology professor who moonlights as a bassist in a blues-rock band, reflects on the adrenaline rush of playing for a live audience. “After the show you feel so revved up,” he says. “You go home and you can’t fall asleep for hours.”

Congratulations to Profs. Lisa Feldman Barrett and Derek Isaacowitz who recently received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for their project, “Affect regulation and beta amyloid: Maturational factors in aging and age-related pathology.” The goal of the project is to assess how affect regulation strategies are protective of cognitive and affective functioning in […]

Recently, Prof. Chuck Hillman was featured in the New York Times in an article titled, “Losing fat, gaining brain power, on the playground.” The article discusses Prof. Hillman’s research that found that physical activity in children on the playground improves their brain health and thinking. To read the full article, click here.

Congratulations to Prof. Iris Berent who recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, “Collaborative research: role of the motor system in phonological and phonetic processing.” The project is in collaboration with Alvaro Pascual Leone and Albert Galaburd at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and  explores the role of embodiment and abstraction […]