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While Lace Padilla’s data visualization forecasts are intended to appear simple, the research and psychology behind their designs are anything but.

Bush was among 275 first-year students who spent a week in Boston, participating in the 2023 Summer Bridge Scholars Program, designed to help them begin their Northeastern journey. It offered a preview of the academic experience, insight into the valuable resources and opportunities to meet new friends and mentors before the school year starts.

Congressional testimony this week about reverse engineering from crashed UFOs and the recovery of non-human “biologics” sounds like science fiction.

We’re delighted to announce Olga Vitek, PhD will be the new director of the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis.   

Northeastern University has expanded its world leading Network Science Institute to the university’s campus in London in a move that will establish a new European hub in the fast-growing research field of network science. As part of the expansion, the university has recruited a team of researchers to join its faculty in the United Kingdom....

Bronny James, the 18-year-old son of NBA star LeBron James, suffered a cardiac arrest on Monday while practicing with his University of Southern California basketball team in Los Angeles.

Evan Prasky is a marine and environmental sciences graduate student at Northeastern University. He studies the socio-ecological interactions between sharks in humans. His expertise is in shark depredation and how it affects the shark populations in the Gulf of Mexico. For shark week, we asked Evan to shed some light on some common beliefs about...

What is nature? When Northeastern University researchers asked a sample of undergraduate students this question last spring, many of their responses included “the outdoors,” “flora and fauna that exist without human interference” or “natural environment.”

A professor at Northeastern University hopes his team’s research will build lead time into warnings about river flooding in New England, such as the one that devastated Vermont this month.

Northeastern University will provide $450 million in financial aid for 2023-24, including a record $437 million for undergraduate students.

“As we all know, mental health was significantly impacted by the pandemic,” says Christine Civiletto, assistant vice chancellor for wellness at Northeastern University. There is a silver lining, however, according to Civiletto—students are more open to talking about mental-health concerns and increasingly willing to reach out for help.

I am Erin Williams. I will be graduating in May of 2023 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Cell and Molecular Biology and a minor in Psychology.