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Working on Martian meteorites and lunar samples on co-op
While on co-op at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Elliott Mueller is testing Martian meteorites and lunar samples from the Apollo missions.
May 31, 2016
Tunneling in Water ‘Wires’ Challenges the Classical View of Proton Transport
In a paper published in Nature Chemistry, Northeastern University physics professor Paul Champion, uses ultrafast laser technology to determine how physics and chemistry combine to make biology happen.
May 30, 2016
Chemistry major heads to India to co-op at Ernst & Young
Spencer Martin is working at Ernst & Young as part of the pharmaceuticals team, preparing for and performing mergers and acquisitions of Indian and multi-national pharmaceutical companies.
May 24, 2016
Chemistry major heads to India to co-op at Ernst & Young
Spencer Martin is working at Ernst & Young as part of the pharmaceuticals team, preparing for and performing mergers and acquisitions of Indian and multi-national pharmaceutical companies.
May 24, 2016
Chemistry student co-ops in Happiest Place On Earth
Amanda Dell'Olio is responsible for analyzing and maintaining the water quality throughout the Walt Disney World properties.
May 12, 2016
Chemistry student in Norway is northernmost COS co-op
Isaac Kresse is working for SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway.
May 03, 2016
Northeastern professor runs for American Chemical Society president
Tom Gilbert, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is one of two people vying to be president of the world's largest scientific professional society.
April 13, 2016
Why hoverboards explode
Northeastern research professor K.M. Abraham goes inside the self-balancing scooters to reveal the science behind their combustion.
February 24, 2016
Longtime Northeastern chemist receives prestigious AAPS award
Alexandros Makriyannis, George D. Behrakis Endowed Chair at Northeastern and Founder and Director of the Center for Drug Discovery, has received the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award for 2015. This award is part of a long line of accomplishments for Makriyannis, who has published over 500 papers and has over 50 patents in the field of medicinal chemistry.
January 25, 2016
3Qs: Four new elements added to periodic table
The seventh row of the periodic table is now complete after Monday’s announcement of four new elements. Chemistry professor Michael Pollastri explains why this is an important milestone for science.
January 05, 2016
COS professors get NSF grant to study production of cancer drugs
Two professors - one from the biology department and the other from the chemistry and chemical biology department - have been awarded more than a half-million dollars to investigate the production of cancer drugs in Catharanthus roseus.
November 12, 2015
Chemistry students head to Europe for research trip
Thirty students took part in NU-CD4. The course focused on the drug development process and gave the students the opportunity both to visit world-leading institutions in pharmaceutical research and manufacturing and conduct a research project focusing on identifying problems with existing drugs and developing novel remedies for those problems.
November 05, 2015
Inaugural Barry L. Karger Medal in Bioanalysis awarded
Professor Matthias Mann, Director in the Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, was the recipient the Inaugural Barry L. Karger Medal in Bioanalysis.
October 27, 2015
Plazomicin: Its Prospects and Its Challenges
James Aggen, a professor in the College of Science and Bouve College of Health Sciences, describes his to work to develop antidotes for multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacterial infections.
September 23, 2015