• MGINE 2013 Regional Workshop

    MGI New England Regional Workshop 2013 Engaging Industry, Government, and Academia in the Region  Presented by: Northeastern University & The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Friday, June 28, 2013 8:00am-3:00pm Reception to follow Kostas Research Institute Northeastern University’s Burlington Innovation Campus 141 South Bedford Street Burlington, MA 01803 Materials Genome Initiative on [...]

  • RPOC Subcommittee Report

    The following charge was given to the 2011-2012 Senate Committee for Research Policy Oversight, January 13 2012. “Review the existing policies and procedures for the establishment, maintenance, and retirement of Centers, Institutes and Research Facilities at the University. A survey of relevant policies and procedures at appropriate matchmate and aspirant universities should be undertaken.” Background [...]

  • FY14 Grant Recipients

    Adaptive management of coastal ecosystems under climate change: A novel framework based on mathematical, computational, and network sciences Tarik Gouhier (Marine and Environmental Science), Auroop Ganguly (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Cyber-Physics Sensors for Affective Science Research Srinivas Sridhar (Physics), Lisa Barrett (Psychology) Exploring the Link between Bacterial DNA Damage Response and Biofilm Disassembly Yunrong Chai [...]

  • Congratulations to recipients of the FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants

    Adaptive management of coastal ecosystems under climate change: A novel framework based on mathematical, computational, and network sciences Tarik Gouhier (Marine and Environmental Science), Auroop Ganguly (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Cyber-Physics Sensors for Affective Science Research Srinivas Sridhar (Physics), Lisa Barrett (Psychology) Exploring the Link between Bacterial DNA Damage Response and Biofilm Disassembly Yunrong Chai [...]

  • Sequestration Updates

    For Continuous Updates: Research Administration and Finance has created this resource page to keep the Northeastern University community informed on current communications from funding agencies, Northeastern leadership, and other research support sources regarding the across the board federal budget reductions (sequestration) that went into effect on March 1, 2013 (see OMB announcement).  As the University [...]

  • Healthy choices despite disparities

    Interactive health technologies are a hot topic these days. Between Nike’s FuelBand and mobile phone apps like LoseIt!, the world has come to realize that interactive computing has a lot to offer  the layperson in the way of managing her own health. These new platforms were just starting to emerge when professor Andrea Parker began [...]

  • Study: Antibiotics are unique assassins

    In recent years, the notion that there is a single mechanism by which antibiotics wipe out bacteria has permeated the field of microbiology. Now, new research from professor Kim Lewis and his team questions that hypothesis.

  • Mediterranean diet is old but good news

    I went grocery shopping over the weekend and if you knew anything about my normal eating habits, you would have been rather surprised by the things I brought home with me: tons of fruits and vegetables, a huge bag of potatoes, shrimp, haddock, whole grain bread, nuts galore, yogurt, and even a little granola. I [...]