The Bouvé College of Health Sciences supports a collaborative approach to healthcare and research, as demonstrated at the 6th annual Interprofessional Research Symposium last week.
Northeastern celebrates scholarly achievement
The university held its third-annual Academic Honors Convocation on Thursday, recognizing students, faculty, and staff for their extraordinary achievements in areas including research, scholarship, teaching, and mentoring.
What do hospitals do for their communities?
Professor Gary Young and his colleagues at Northeastern are the first in the nation to analyze hospitals’ community benefits practices, which are intimately linked with their tax-exempt status.
Mel Bernstein elected president of MGHPCC
Northeastern’s senior vice provost for research and graduate education was recently named president of the state-of-the-art high-performance computing center, a collaboration between private industry, state government, and the state’s leading research universities.
Why the innocent plead guilty
“Barriers to information and the prospect of a harsher sentence can lead the innocent to plead guilty,” according to law professor Daniel Medwed, who delivered the 49th annual Robert D. Klein Lecture.
What makes human language special?
All animals communicate, but human language is uniquely structured. In her new book, The Phonological Mind, psychology professor Iris Berent asks why that is.
Enlightening research shows meditation boosts compassion
Psychology professor David DeSteno’s lab is the first to study the social implications of meditation, a practice well known to improve one’s physical and psychological well-being.
Students found biomedical engineering group
Five ambitious undergraduates have created Northeastern’s
first biomedical engineering student group, which gained national
affiliation last fall.
Why invader species may be taking dinner off your table
David Kimbro, an assistant professor of environmental sciences, says coastal marine species that we depend on for clean water, financial stability, and even a good dinner, are susceptible to foreign invasive species
Apps, co-ops, startups, and global solutions: It’s RISE:2013
Students and faculty showcased a range of impressive research projects across many disciplines at the university’s annual innovation, scholarship, and research expo on Friday.
3Qs: In ‘free culture’ online, where are the women?
Joseph Reagle, an assistant professor of communication studies, explains why women make up a very small percentage of “open computing” fields like Wikipedia, Linux, and Apache.
3Qs: The ethics of species ‘de-extinction’
With the ability to clone animals from their genetic material, bringing back extinct species is no longer the stuff of science fiction. But is it ethical? We asked philosophy professor Ronald Sandler.
