News & Announcements
November 2009
| 2009-11-18 | Northeastern researchers pursue engineering "Grand Challenge" On August 1, 2008, 13 people were killed when the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour. |
| 2009-11-17 | Engineering students design winning models Northeastern University engineering students won top prizes in competition at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) national student conference, held last week in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 2009-11-16 | Northeastern microbiologist wins funding to solve a mystery Professor of Biology Slava Epstein has won a prestigious million-dollar grant to do something scientists in the last hundred years have been unable to do: grow oral- disease causing organisms in a laboratory. |
| 2009-11-13 | Language boom On a train headed for the U.S. State Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., third-year Northeastern student Drew McConnell overheard a group of Egyptian journalists bantering back and forth in Arabic. |
| 2009-11-12 | Pursuing a big dream for smaller foster homes After looking into the eyes of needy orphans in Africa and Central America, Claire Fischer—not long graduated from a Chicago-area high school—began to see a better future for them. |
| 2009-11-10 | Veterans pursue Yellow Ribbon benefits Between 2002 and 2006, Portia Scott was deployed in Kuwait for three months and in Balad, Iraq, for a total of 15 months, where she served as an administrative assistant to the lieutenant colonel of her battalion. |
| 2009-11-10 | Discovering Northeastern with new iPhone app Want to use your iPhone to get around the Northeastern University campus? Now, there’s an app for that. |
| 2009-11-06 | Inaugural Holder of Ruderman Professorship Appointed Dr. Jacob Meskin, a distinguished scholar of Jewish Studies, has been named the inaugural holder of the Ruderman Professorship of Jewish Studies for the 2009–2010 academic year. |
| 2009-11-02 | Cultivating cultural awareness Once a self-described “naïve traveler” who never drove below the surface of the lands he visited, Michael Coakley, ’10, realized last year that he needed to dig deeper to make the most of his international experience. |
October 2009
| 2009-10-29 | Urban health institute shares in four research awards Hortensia Amaro, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Urban Health Research (IUHR), in partnership with the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH), received federal grants totaling $6.8 million. |
| 2009-10-26 | A web of trust In a new study of the Internet’s impact on politics, Northeastern professor David Lazer and his colleagues found that online town hall meetings increase constituents’ trust and approval of members of Congress. |
| 2009-10-23 | Building global leaders Snack food manufacturer Mars, Inc.’s stiffest competition isn’t another chocolate giant like Hershey’s, but rather iTunes, says Allan Bird. |
| 2009-10-22 | Criminal justice profs earn 1.5 million in federal grants The National Institute of Justice has awarded grants totaling nearly $1.5 million to a trio of College of Criminal Justice faculty members. |
| 2009-10-21 | Crusading for health equality Growing up in Mexico City and, later, studying at Princeton University, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia was keenly aware that people don’t always get an equal chance at life’s opportunities. |
| 2009-10-20 | It's easy being green Built around a broad base of sustainability research and an overarching commitment to creating a “greener” campus, Northeastern University this week marked the first Sustainability Week with programs, lectures and a prestigious award for the Dockser Hall renovation. |
| 2009-10-15 | Illuminating the "Fredo Effect" Kimberly Eddleston wants to know how the “family” in family-run businesses either serves to constrict or promote a firm’s success. |
| 2009-10-14 | Career fair draws thousands More than 3,000 young job seekers from all over the country handed out resumes, and networked and interviewed with more than 200 employers at Northeastern’s regional career fair last week. |
| 2009-10-13 | Labor Studies The daughter of immigrants, human services student Scarlett Trillia was thrilled to combine her academic interest in worker cooperatives with a co-op in her father’s homeland, Argentina. |
| 2009-10-09 | "Global nomads" offer new model of cosmopolitanism With little or no affinity for their homeland, and lacking in familial connections to products or services that would inspire nostalgic good feelings in other travelers — the smell of McDonald’s burgers, for example, appeals to Americans traveling in China— a new breed of world-traveler, known as “global nomads,” eschew such sentimentalities and confound those who would market to them, says Fleura Bardhi. |
| 2009-10-08 | Valuable lessons from teaching overseas While on co-op teaching English in Turkey, Northeastern human services major Alexandra Budge, ’12, discovered she loves education—but she doesn’t want to be a teacher. |
| 2009-10-07 | Faculty senate approves college restructuring plan On Wednesday, the Faculty Senate voted 30 to 3 in favor of the proposal to restructure the College of Arts and Sciences into three distinct colleges. |
| 2009-10-05 | Bioengineering PhD program announced The College of Engineering is offering a new PhD program in bioengineering. |
| 2009-10-05 | Network scientist analyzes life's 'digital breadcrumbs' David Lazer, an expert in social networks and their effects on politics and organizations and one of the 42 tenured and tenure-track professors to join Northeastern this fall, has shown how cell phone usage patterns can predict friendship. |
| 2009-10-02 | Could stressed out sharks save more fish? Marine biology graduate student Austin Gallagher has studied the dwindling shark population around the world |
| 2009-10-02 | Bioengineering PhD program announced Reaffirming Northeastern’s commitment to interdisciplinary education, the College of Engineering is offering a new PhD program in bioengineering. |
| 2009-10-01 | Could stressed out sharks save more fish? Marine biology graduate student Austin Gallagher has studied the dwindling shark population around the world—from the waters of the South Pacific to those off Southern California. |
September 2009
| 2009-09-28 | Web-based baby monitor could be a boom business Northeastern undergraduate Praful Mathur’s web-enabled baby monitor could be the next big high-tech parent gadget. |
| 2009-09-25 | Working for fairness in immigration laws Northeastern’s newest law professor, an expert on immigration policy, says it is too easy to detain and deport immigrants, even green-card holders, on minor legal infractions. |
| 2009-09-24 | Northeastern professor granted $5.5 million by NIH Northeastern biologist Kim Lewis has received a $5.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate why antibiotics are not effective for certain infectious diseases. |
| 2009-09-22 | Bridging the safety gap If you’ve ever idled in bumper-to-bumper traffic on a bridge, wondering just how much weight the structure could withstand, chances are that Northeastern’s Ming Wang could tell you. |
| 2009-09-21 | Marketing tour de force Northeastern marketing major Bethany O’Meara did a lot more than spin her wheels on co-op with French bicycle-tour company Cyclomundo. |
| 2009-09-16 | Physical therapy students saluted by Mexican government Twenty-three Northeastern physical therapy students concluded a goodwill care mission to Cuernavaca, Mexico, this August amid tearful gestures of gratitude from those they helped. |
| 2009-09-15 | Heart of the matter Northeastern grad student Tianzhu "Indi" Zang has won a competitive American Heart Association (AHA) pre-doctoral fellowship |
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