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A vegetable garden grows on the Boston campus
New vegetable garden is growing at Northeastern's Boston campus, with participants from all academic backgrounds.
October 26, 2021
How the natural pigments in marine life inspired a beauty products startup
Camille Martin, PhD and assistant professor of Chemistry, Leila Deravi, developed Seaspire Skincare, a beauty product line drawn from marine ecosystems.
August 20, 2021
Our plastic pollution problem may have more significant consequences than we think
Plastics are everywhere - and that's a problem. New research published in Science finds that plastics may be altering the Earth’s carbon cycle and our ability to monitor it.
July 08, 2021
Solving Quantum Riddles: Dr. Sijia Dong is Using Machine-Learning to Overcome Challenges in Quantum Chemical Computation
Complex chemistry, Machine learning, and quantum mechanics are fields that take strong computers and a lot of time to understand. Dr. Sijia Dong is simplifying that process by uniting the three.
June 11, 2021
Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
He studies how proteins change in reaction to drugs
John Engen is the James L. Waters chair in analytical chemistry and distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Science. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University
April 28, 2021
1 million coronavirus tests
The milestone of one million coronavirus tests were celebrated by lab technicians in Northeastern's Life Science Testing Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, on April 27, 2021
April 28, 2021
Vaccinated? Don’t toss that mask just yet.
A more contagious variant of the coronavirus is now dominant in the U.S. Variants are complicating the fight to subdue the pandemic and raising calls for continued vigilance–and mask-wearing. Illustration by Alison Booth/Northeastern University
April 22, 2021
Seeing the Future: Microsoft Partnership allows Professor Jared Auclair to bring Mixed Reality to the Classroom
With the HoloLens, Professor Jared Auclair uses mixed reality media to teach students biotechnology skills. This partnership with Microsoft is bring innovation to Northeastern's classrooms.
April 20, 2021
First-of-its-kind nanosensor could help diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease
Every movement in the human body—from lifting our arms to our beating hearts—is regulated in some way by signals from our brains. Until recently, scientists often tracked and understood that brain-body communication only after the fact, sort of like listening to a voicemail as opposed to being on a call. But researchers at Northeastern have […]
April 16, 2021
Northeastern’s COVID-19 Testing Is Identifying New Variants Faster Than Other Labs
When Northeastern began outlining its COVID-19 testing plan last spring, Jared Auclair, director of Northeastern’s testing lab, had a hunch: The university needed a monitoring system that could adapt to inevitable mutations of the virus in the future. As the pandemic unfolded, viral mutations were top-of-mind for Auclair, whose background in drug resistance in HIV […]
March 10, 2021
Student Profile: Kayla Mathiowetz, Chemistry Major
Kayla Mathiowetz is a Chemistry Major on the Premed track. She is graduating in the Class of 2021. Why did you choose to study Chemistry at Northeastern? My dad works as a chemist at Pfizer, so I have been exposed to the field of Chemistry since I was a child and I was always interested […]
March 03, 2021
College of Science Connects: Research at the Frontier of Bioanalytical Chemistry
Listen to Hazel Sive, Dean of the College of Science, as she talks to Leila Deravi, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology for the Barnett Institute for Chemical & Biological Analysis.
February 23, 2021
Big Ideas from a Small Scale: Professor Alexander Ivanov is Changing the Power of Proteomics
Proteomics will revolutionize the medical and pharmaceutical fields. Professor Alexander Ivanov and his ongoing research will be a part of that revolution.
December 15, 2020
College of Science Connects: Research at the Frontier of Biomaterials
Learn about biologically fabricated materials from engineered microbes from Associate Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professor, Neel Joshi.
December 15, 2020