News
NSF $1.8M Interdisciplinary Grant Awarded to NU Professors
Physics Professor Alessandro Vespignani and Political Science Professor David Lazer have been awarded a $1.8M interdisciplinary grant from NSF to study independent networks in the context of socio-technical systems.
September 23, 2011
Argonne National Labs Highlight a New Technique Developed at Northeastern
Argonne National Lab and the Journal of Chemical Physics have highlighted a new technique developed by Professor Tim Sage and his team. This technique provides crucial information on the vibrational dynamics of hemes and heme proteins.
September 13, 2011
NU Physicists in Outreach to Local High Schools
Professor George Alverson met this week with local high school physics teachers to help test and revise the Quarknet Masterclass exercise, which will be used this spring nation-wide.
September 01, 2011
Article Published in Nature is a Major Breakthorough in Cuprate Superconductivity
Ginestra Bianconi, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University, was part of a team of scientists who discovered an innovative way of using external stimuli, such as x-rays, to bring disorganized oxygen atoms to a state of equilibrium in only one day—a process that would normally take months to accomplish.
August 24, 2011
Co-op in Geneva, Switzerland
Edward Vaisman (Class of 2012) is a dual major in Electrical engineering and Physics who doing a co-op in Geneva, Switzerland.
August 18, 2011
CMS Submits 100th Paper
The CMS collaboration, represented at Northeastern by Professors George Alverson, Emanuela Barberis, and Darien Wood, and others, submitted its one-hundredth physics paper for publication.
August 09, 2011
Network Scientists at Northeastern and Collaborators Create First Large-Scale Map of a Plant's Protein Network
Network scientists at Northeastern University have collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of colleagues in cell biology and interactive data acquisition to create the first large-scale map of a plant’s protein network.
August 04, 2011
Professor Pran Nath Weighs in on Clash over New Physics
Physics Professor Pran Nath is quoted in a recent Nature article about the CDF and DZero results at Fermilab.
July 29, 2011