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NU Talk honored for its program
Northeastern’s Biology Club’s wildly successful event, NU Talk 2017, won Best Program at the 2017 Student Life Awards.
May 16, 2017
Healthy aging: can we turn back time?
Northeastern researchers touched on that question this week in a series of talks that examined renewing tissue function, improving and restoring motor control, and the remarkable memory power of superagers.
April 26, 2017
College of Science graduate students honored for their excellence
Four students were given the College of Science Dean's Awards for Graduate Student Excellence.
April 20, 2017
Meet the student commencement speaker, Pankhuri Singhal
Singhal attended the wrong orientation as an incoming freshman. No big deal. It just sparked her curiosity, inspired her to switch majors, and led to transformative research and co-op experiences. Next month, she’ll share the highlights of her journey when she delivers the student commencement address on May 5—the same day she turns 23.
April 18, 2017
Senior named Fulbright Scholar, plans cancer research in Botswana
At Northeastern, Sarah Sherman has developed a passion for cancer research through hands-on training on co-op. For her Fulbright project, she plans to evaluate whether recent improvements to Botswana’s pathology labs have led to more timely diagnoses.
April 10, 2017
COS Professor to speak at UN General Assembly on climate change, sustainable development
Climate change biologist Brian Helmuth will speak today at a high-level meeting at the United Nations headquarters, where he will highlight his research and participate in a discussion on efforts worldwide to address climate change and meet global sustainable development goals.
March 23, 2017
Tyler Jensen, Biochemistry, Winner 2017 AAAS Poster Competition
Undergraduate student Tyler Jensen won this year's AAAS Student Poster Competition.
March 23, 2017
Researcher develops technology to advance antibiotic discovery
Biology professor Slava Epstein is the lead character in the short documentary "The History of Resistance," in which he talks about his contributions to the search for beneficial microorganisms in places as close to home as his own backyard and, perhaps one day, as remote as the planet Mars.
March 21, 2017
Graduate Student Excellence Award winners announced
Several graduate students are recipients of the annual awards.
March 21, 2017
Undergrads publish as first line authors in prominent developmental biology journal
Pankhuri Singhal and Matthew Nguyen published research on the regeneration of limbs in axolotls as first-line authors in Development.
March 07, 2017
Student’s co-op experience confirms career path
Sarah Braun, a recipient of the Muckenhoupt Scholarship, says her co-op with Massachusetts Clean Energy Center confirmed her decision to work in the clean energy field.
January 30, 2017
Student's co-op experience confirms career path
Sarah Braun, a recipient of the Muckenhoupt Scholarship, says her co-op with Massachusetts Clean Energy Center confirmed her decision to work in the clean energy field.
January 30, 2017
Researchers on fast track to combat antibiotic resistance
The marriage of two innovative technologies—one developed by Northeastern’s Slava Epstein—could accelerate both the discovery of new antibiotics that kill pathogens without encountering resistance and the diagnosis of specific pathogens causing disease, which would enable fast, targeted treatments.
January 27, 2017
For Northeastern researchers, small microbes bring big success
Though his career has focused on life at the microscopic scale, Assistant Professor of Biology Yunrong Chai knows that his field of microbiology has enormous implications for society.
December 26, 2016