I’ve always been a video game skeptic. For one thing I’m not very good at them, but I was also sufficiently indoctrinated by my Montessori education to think that they will rot my brain….although I do have that little solitaire problem I mentioned a few weeks ago. Anyway, yesterday I met a woman who came ...
The death toll in Jos, Nigeria after the most recent suicide bomb has climbed to 19. In our jaded world, that doesn’t seem so high. But nearly 13,000 individuals died from suicide attacks between 2003 and 2010, and clearly that number continues to rise. Professors Carey Rappaport and Jose Martinez are using their skills in ...
Anthony D’Onofrio studies dirt…or the bacteria that grow on dirt, to be more specific. He is a post-doctoral researcher in the Antimicrobial Discovery Center led by Professor Kim Lewis in the biology department and has started a non-profit educational organization, along with Professor Lewis, called Sample America to help him with a somewhat impossible task: ...
Here’s a cool new FB app from computer sciences professor, Alan Mislove. It’s called Friendlist Manager and it makes using lists on the social-network (a.k.a. time sink) a whole lot easier (as if you needed anything on FB to be easier, since you don’t already spend enough time there). Mislove uses network information to build ...
This week at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, a group of Northeastern scientists will present the Monet painting of the future. This pile of hay bales is not a close up of a lost classic from the impressionist master’s late-nineteenth century haystack series. Instead, it’s a close-up of magnetic nanowires. Pegah M. ...
The nation’s healthcare system is facing a financial crisis. It’s not big news. We’ve all known it for years. The planet (and the economy) is struggling to accommodate the largest population it’s ever had in a time when people are living longer than ever. “Everyone agrees that something needs to change, but how it will ...
…but it’s not too long for an awesome acronym that can help big time, power hungry computational programs do their jobs better! Gene Cooperman of the College of Computer and Information Sciences began tinkering with parallel computing over a decade ago, exploring the possibility of using 10 computers to do in 1 hour the job ...
Of the 700,000 new stroke cases each year, only 37% regain the ability to walk. That means more the 440,000 people requiring mobility assistance are added to the overburdened healthcare system annually — and that’s just stroke patients. Rehabilitation is obviously a key component to changing these statistics, but without quantitative data not much can ...
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 ...
Mechanical Engineering grad student Samira Faegh is attempting to revolutionize biosensor technology, which can be used in a variety of settings to detect anything from pathogens to blood glucose levels to molecular indicators of cancer. I sat down with her last week to talk about her research, which she’s been working on for about a ...
At Monday’s Bouvé Dean’s Seminar Series, Judith Salerno of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) presented a challenge to Northeastern students and their peers around the nation. The Go Viral for Improving Healthcare challenge asks health sciences students to collaborate with students in other fields like computer sciences and engineering to develop web or mobile apps ...