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Connie Phong wants to know how an animal adapted to live in a highly specialized environment — just below the freezing point for seawater — responds to warming oceans.
How Northeastern scientists are using Antarctic sea spiders to study life on the edge
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Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe has identified a way to target two of the deadliest cancer types with chemotherapy drugs but without the harms associated with chemotherapy.
Northeastern researcher uses light to target and kill cancer cells
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Q&A with Greg Coppola, MS Environmental Science and Policy
Gregory Coppoola shares his NU experience at COS.
Caroline Consoli shares her Northeastern University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society experience
Student shares her NU experience at the College of Science as well as how to get involved in NUSAAC.
Where others see walls, she looks for bridges
There was something familiar about the murals and graffiti, says Sarah Bernt. “It just evokes something that I had seen before.” Stretched across the Peace Wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, were messages of harmony and love. Bernt, who graduated from Northeastern in 2019 with a degree in political science, was on a political tour of […]
Plantains, laundry, and skiing: students look forward to Thanksgiving
Students on Northeastern's Boston campus share their excitement to head home for the holidays.
This bioengineering co-op gets hands-on with Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine
Ella Strzegowski landed a co-op at Moderna, where she uses chromatography to examine the molecules in the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine solution.
The human genome has been mapped. Here’s the next monumental step.
Jeffrey Agar and his colleagues are working on helping humanity develop treatments for hundreds of currently untreatable diseases
Do I Have Covid-19 or flu? Northeastern will test you for both.
Maybe you have a headache, or a stuffy nose, or a sore throat, or a cough. You might feel fatigued, achy, or a bit feverish. After the last year and a half, you might immediately think that you have COVID-19. But those symptoms also describe the flu. Autumn marks the beginning of flu season. That’s […]
People with disabilities have been locked out of spaceflight. But that is changing.
Mona Minkara experienced zero-gravity on a parabolic flight funded by AstroAccess, a nonprofit initiative to make spaceflight inclusive for all.
Declaration of mental health ‘emergency’ among children and teens brings calls for more early intervention
A nationwide mental health 'emergency' has been declared as a result of rising rates of mental health problems among the youth.
A vegetable garden grows on the Boston campus
New vegetable garden is growing at Northeastern's Boston campus, with participants from all academic backgrounds.
Q&A with Marla Glean, MS Biotech
Marla Glean does a Q&A feature describing her experience as a Master's student in Biotech.
Q&A with Rohit Thakur, MS in Operations Research
Rohit Thakur does a Q&A explaining his experience as a graduate student pursing an MS in Applied Mathematics.