The Huntington 100 honors seniors and underclassmen who have excelled in the classroom and the community.

Northeastern researcher Kim Lewis and his team have launched an all-out effort to find a cure for Lyme disease, which afflicts nearly 300,000 new people in the U.S. each year. Their efforts aim to bring relief to all patients, including those who suffer from a debilitating chronic version of the disease.

Northeastern University Distinguished Professor Kim Lewis has received a $1.5 million grant from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation to develop better treatments for Lyme disease.

Alexandros Makriyannis, George D. Behrakis Endowed Chair at Northeastern and Founder and Director of the Center for Drug Discovery (CDD), has received the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award for 2015.

Professor H. William Detrich of the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences has had an island named for him.

The Office of the Dean is pleased to announce Melissa (Missy) McElligott the recipient of the 2015-2016 College of Science Excellence in Teaching Award.

Scientists and researchers. Educators and future doctors. These were the people behind NU Talk 2016.

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.

When Slava Epstein first arrived in America, he had little more than his family, a smuggled cat, and an “enormous amount of data” from his research in Russia. In 2015, he was part of one of the world's biggest scientific stories.

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.

In Jan­uary, a research team including Uni­ver­sity Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Kim Lewis and Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Slava Epstein pre­sented a newly dis­cov­ered antibi­otic that elim­i­nates pathogens without encoun­tering any detectable resis­tance. The ground­breaking research swept the globe, and now one analysis indi­cates that the paper topped the list of the 100 sci­en­tific arti­cles receiving the most media buzz and online atten­tion in 2015.

Biology professor Kim Lewis and Slava Epstein have been named Global Thinkers of 2015 by Foreign Policy.

Dr. Carolyn Lee-Parsons, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Biology, and Dr. Erin Cram, Associate Professor of Biology, have received a $650,000 grant from the NSF to investigate the production of cancer drugs in Catharanthus roseus, also known as the Madagascar periwinkle. They hope to better understand the function of zinc finger transcription factors (ZCTs), a set of regulatory factors that influence drug production levels.

Kevin Gozzi started working in assistant professor Win Chai’s microbiology lab during his first month at Northeastern. Now, the fourth-year biology student is the co-first author of the lab’s most recent publication, which centers on chemical signals that stimulate bacterial biofilm formation and the underlying mechanisms. Basically, when it comes to involvement in on-campus research, Gozzi is living every science major’s dream.