The College of Science would like to invite you to take part in a “virtual welcome day” Saturday, February 16, 2013. The event kicks off at 12 p.m., and will continue throughout the day, highlighting each of our programs. The…
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Virtual Welcome Day
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Posted in Advisories, Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Linguistics, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology
Posted in Advisories, Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Linguistics, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology
Seminal conference to explore urban coastal sustainability
The majority of the world’s cities lie on a shoreline, and by 2020, two-thirds of all Americans are expected to reside in coastal cities.
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Posted in Advisories, Marine and Environmental Sciences
Posted in Advisories, Marine and Environmental Sciences
Getting Their Hands Dirty Leads To Some Green
Northeastern professors Dr. Geoffrey Davies and Dr. Elham Ghabbour worked side-by-side on humic substances isolation, cross comparison, structures, properties, and uses – research that has led to a recent $50,000 grant from the VK Rasmussen Foundation.
Tagged with: Chemistry, College of Science, Elham Ghabbour, Geoffrey Davies, humic substances, Northeastern University, Science, soil, VK Rasmussen Foundation, water
Posted in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Posted in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Are Gadgets Changing Our Brains?
Psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett was featured in an article in the Financial Times about cerebral circuitry and whether gadgets are changing the way our brains work.
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Posted in Psychology
Posted in Psychology
The salamander king
When assistant professor of biology James Monaghan was an undergraduate, he hung a life-size inflatable Spiderman from the ceiling of his dorm room.
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Posted in Biology
Posted in Biology
3Qs: Doomsday predictions debunked
Some people are not making plans for the New Year. From hiding in bomb shelters to sharpening their survival skills, doomsday theorists are preparing for judgment day, which the Mayan calendar predicts will take place on Friday.
Tagged with: CERN, College of Science, Doomsday, Large Hadron Collider, Northeastern University, Physics, Science, Toyoko Orimoto
Posted in Physics
Posted in Physics
In Germany, fifth-year student finds science and self
Northeastern fifth-year student Dessislava Bogoeva was born in Bulgaria and moved to the United States at age 10. Now she feels like she can call Germany her third home after taking advantage of several dynamic experiential learning opportunities in the western European nation.
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Posted in Biology
Posted in Biology
A better brainwave monitor
The electrical outputs of the brain contain massive amounts of information that could be a powerful resource if we could fully tap into it.
Tagged with: Brainwave Monitor, College of Science, Electric Field Encephalography, Northeastern University, Physics, Science, Srinivas Sridhar
Posted in Physics
Posted in Physics
Northeastern researcher elected president of the Complex Systems Society
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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Posted in Physics
Posted in Physics
Lasers reveal the hidden lives of biomolecules
All around and inside us, an elaborate dance of molecular vibrations is constantly taking place.
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Posted in Physics
Posted in Physics