As a Freshman, Monyrath Chan became the first Torch Scholar to pursue research at Northeastern. Torch is a scholarship program dedicated to closing the achievement gap for first-generation, low-income students from diverse backgrounds. Torch students receive comprehensive support that improves their college retention rate, leadership opportunities, social capital and academic achievement. Chan used that support ...
Targeted drug delivery is a hot topic these days. Chemotherapy, for example, blindly kills anything in its path — these drugs don’t distinguish between healthy cells and cancerous cells; they just kill cells. Period. Professor Vladimir Torchilin and his buddies at the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence are developing nanoscale drug delivery technologies, which I ...
Justin Dowd is a fourth year physics and math major here at Northeastern. This phenomenal “chalkimation” video about Einstein’s daydream discovery of relativity won him a ticket to outer space (yeah…outer space) through the Metro’s Race for Space competition. Not only is Dowd brilliant enough to explain relativity in simple terms, he’s also an artist ...
Dagmar Sternad could compete for most passionate researcher on campus and land a seat near the top. Her stern gaze and flaming red hair only add to her intensity. Sternad is a professor of biology, electrical and computer engineering and physics, but as she says, “don’t even try to label me.” Her work, which focuses ...
Have you ever heard of hydrogen exchange as an analytical technique? I hadn’t until the day before yesterday. Actually, I hadn’t heard of hydrogen exchange, period. Forget the qualifier. I know you’re bursting at the seams to find out, so I won’t make you wait any longer. Hydrogen exchange is exactly what it claims to ...