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  • Summer Bridge Scholars make ‘tremendous start’ in their Northeastern experience

    Traveling more than 3,000 miles to attend Northeastern University, Noah Babcock said the Summer Bridge Scholars Program was just what he needed. Babcock, 18, from San Francisco, California, who will be studying mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, said it was important for him to participate in the program to get...

  • Can infrastructure and tourism endure triple-digit temperatures, extreme weather during ‘Danger Season’?

    Elizabeth O’Connell of Northeastern University-London worked through Britain’s record breaking heat wave Tuesday at home with her curtains closed and a Dyson fan at her side. “Regular cold showers are a must,” says O’Connell, director of marketing and admissions for Northeastern’s London location. “Dog walks now take place at 6...

  • Kelsie Lopez

    Kelsie Lopez is a PhD student in the Plasticity in Neurodevelopment Lab with Dr. Laurel Gabard-Durnam in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health. Lopez studies the effects of early adverse life events on later language outcomes by measuring both behavior and sensitive period timing in the brain using EEG...

  • Want to experience creative flow? Here’s how to change your perspective.

    Writers, athletes, gamers—they’re all hoping to experience “the zone” where hard work comes easily and the most satisfying results are flowing. That often mythical goal is the subject of a study by David Melnikoff, a Northeastern visiting research scholar in psychology, who has assembled a formula that can help people establish a sense of flow...

  • The Science of Nostalgia: Why Audiences Can’t Get Enough of Star Wars, Top Gun and Stranger Things

    Pop culture is full of instantly recognizable iconography, images and sounds that reach into our brains and pull us back in time. Hollywood has been mining the past for cinematic gold, increasingly relying on reboots, remakes and sequels. The latest Star Wars show, “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” the super-sized fourth season of ‘80s...

  • Advancing Women in Science 2022 Scholars

    The Advancing Women in Science Scholarship (AWS) demonstrates the commitment of the College of Science to increase the representation and advancement of women in science majors and careers. Eligible candidates include full-time undergraduate women enrolled in the college. As part of the Advancing Women in Science community, scholarship recipients participate...

  • Celebrating our 2022 graduates

    The College of Science celebrated the Class of 2022 throughout the week of May 9! The Doctor of Philosophy Hooding and Graduation Ceremony was held on May 9 at Matthews Arena. David Madigan, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, presided over the event, and Andrew S. Plump, President,...

  • Civil Rights – 1.14.22

    Dear College of Science Faculty and Staff, The term civil rights dates back to the 17th century and came into later usage later to encompass the United States movement against racial segregation and discrimination. The term refers to the legal rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality, and includes protection...

  • Instagram takeover: Fatemah Mukadum

    Fatemah Mukadum is a College of Science chemistry and chemical biology major with a minor in computer science, graduating this spring. She will be taking over our Instagram on Wednesday, April 27, to share a day in her life as a Northeastern student. Q: Why did you decide to enroll...

  • Q&A with Hannah Crawford, MS in Environmental Science and Policy

    Hannah Crawford shares her Northeastern experience in the Master of Science in Environmental Science and Policy program, one of our professional master’s program offerings. Q: Why did you decide to enroll at Northeastern University and pursue this degree? I decided to enroll here because of the true mixture of environmental science...

  • Q&A with Katalina Baehring, CaNCURE Spring Cohort

    Katalina Baehring shares her experience as a CaNCURE Cancer Nanomedicine Co-op program member. What are your major, minor(s), and graduation year? Has this always been your course of study, or have you switched paths before? I am a third-year student majoring in cell & molecular biology. In addition, I have...

  • His out-of-this-world discovery: signals from billions of light years away

    Dacheng Lin, a Northeastern research associate professor of physics, has identified a new class of high-energy signals that were created billions of light years from Earth. The signals are known as fast X-ray transients (FXTs), a burst of X-rays that lasts for hours. They appear to be generated by a...