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The brakes of inflammation

Pro­fessor Michail Sitkovsky’s lit­er­a­ture review in the New Eng­land Journal of Med­i­cine exam­ines the vast body of research that fol­lowed his team’s ground­breaking dis­covery about the inner work­ings of the immune system.

Complex systems made simple

Net­work sci­en­tists at North­eastern have designed an algo­rithm capable of iden­ti­fying the subset of com­po­nents that reveal a com­plex system’s overall nature.

How to start a termite ‘orgy’

In new research, Rebeca Rosen­gaus, an asso­ciate pro­fessor in the depart­ment of marine and envi­ron­mental sci­ences, and her stu­dent Tamara Hartke turn an old theory of ter­mite behavior on its head.

Art education—from two perspectives

A recent Gallery 360 exhi­bi­tion show­cased the work of two recent grad­u­ates of a joint pro­gram offered by Northeastern’s Col­lege of Arts, Media, and Design and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

The secrets of spider silk

Steve Cran­ford, an assis­tant pro­fessor of civil and envi­ron­mental engi­neering, studies spider silk and other nat­ural mate­rials for insight into designing more robust syn­thetic structures.

Data mining in a complex world

The real world is an enor­mously com­plex net­work in which every­thing is inter­con­nected. Assis­tant pro­fessor of com­puter and infor­ma­tion sci­ence Yizhou Sun develops data-​​mining algo­rithms that take advan­tage of that complexity.

Sinister code-​​breakers, beware

The research of Daniel Wichs, a new assis­tant pro­fessor in the Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence, focuses on how cryp­tog­raphy can con­tinue pro­tecting per­sonal data in an evolving dig­ital age.