Physics

Student and Advisor Team Up For Co-Op Success

chamberlain and rosen

Mathew Chamberlain, a fifth year senior, chose to attend Northeastern University because of its co-op program, and he’s participated in two exciting opportunities because of it.

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Northeastern researcher elected president of the Complex Systems Society

Alex Vespignani is the Sternberg Distinguished Professor of Physics, Computer Science and Health Sciences.

The sci­ence of com­plex sys­tems was born in the mid-​​20th cen­tury, but it has only recently begun to mature into a research field with real-​​world rel­e­vance.

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Lasers reveal the hidden lives of biomolecules

Paul Champion

All around and inside us, an elab­o­rate dance of mol­e­c­ular vibra­tions is con­stantly taking place.

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Green High Performance Computing Center opens its doors

MGHPCC

We heat up when we’re working hard. Com­puters do, too. And as big data con­tinues to get bigger, we’re asking these machines to work even harder, which means they require more energy than ever.

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Titania nanotubes go commercial

Latika Menon

Seven years ago, physics pro­fessor Latika Mennon’s first grad­uate stu­dent said he wanted to “change the world.”

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Prof. Wanunu Receives $825K Award from the National Human Genome Research Institute

Meni Wanunu

Northeastern University physics Prof. Meni Wanunu has received an $825,000 award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)—an organization that supports the development of technologies to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing in an effort to broaden the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care.

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