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Meet Joey Ostreicher, a College of Science Twitter Ambassador
Joey Ostreicher is a junior biology major on the pre-veterinary track. She is also a College of Science Twitter Ambassador.
March 13, 2013
The brakes of inflammation
In the last few decades, scientists have come to attribute an immunological explanation to many cancers.
February 26, 2013
Researchers transcend boundaries for science
Throughout the 179th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Northeastern faculty led presentations highlighting their work to address real-world challenges in areas ranging from health to technology to sustainability.
February 19, 2013
Complex systems made simple
Just as the name implies, complex systems are difficult to tease apart. An organism’s genome, a biochemical reaction, or even a social network all contain many interdependent components—and changing any one of them can have pervasive effects on all the others.
February 15, 2013
How to start a termite ‘orgy’
There are more than 3,000 species of termites in the world, all living in social colonies with distinct hierarchies.
February 11, 2013
Virtual Welcome Day
The College of Science would like to invite you to take part in a “virtual welcome day” Saturday, February 16, 2013. The event kicks off at 12 p.m., and will continue throughout the day, highlighting each of our programs. The schedule is posted below. This virtual welcome day will give you a chance to learn […]
February 11, 2013
Seminal conference to explore urban coastal sustainability
The majority of the world’s cities lie on a shoreline, and by 2020, two-thirds of all Americans are expected to reside in coastal cities.
February 05, 2013
Getting Their Hands Dirty Leads To Some Green
Northeastern professors Dr. Geoffrey Davies and Dr. Elham Ghabbour worked side-by-side on humic substances isolation, cross comparison, structures, properties, and uses – research that has led to a recent $50,000 grant from the VK Rasmussen Foundation.
January 15, 2013
Are Gadgets Changing Our Brains?
Psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett was featured in an article in the Financial Times about cerebral circuitry and whether gadgets are changing the way our brains work.
January 04, 2013
The salamander king
When assistant professor of biology James Monaghan was an undergraduate, he hung a life-size inflatable Spiderman from the ceiling of his dorm room.
December 21, 2012
3Qs: Doomsday predictions debunked
Some people are not making plans for the New Year. From hiding in bomb shelters to sharpening their survival skills, doomsday theorists are preparing for judgment day, which the Mayan calendar predicts will take place on Friday.
December 20, 2012
In Germany, fifth-year student finds science and self
Northeastern fifth-year student Dessislava Bogoeva was born in Bulgaria and moved to the United States at age 10. Now she feels like she can call Germany her third home after taking advantage of several dynamic experiential learning opportunities in the western European nation.
December 11, 2012
A better brainwave monitor
The electrical outputs of the brain contain massive amounts of information that could be a powerful resource if we could fully tap into it.
December 05, 2012
Northeastern researcher elected president of the Complex Systems Society
The science of complex systems was born in the mid-20th century, but it has only recently begun to mature into a research field with real-world relevance.
December 04, 2012