The Fate of Fat

By Claire Williams, Biology, 2019

It’s the beginning of a new year. Everyone has been hitting the gym and burning some fat. Or have they? No, this isn’t a question of whether or not people are upholding their New Year’s resolutions. Rather, it is a question of the process…

High Protein Electronics: Students make Biological Nanowires

By David Rosenberg, Chemical Engineering, 2020

This summer, a team of students at the University of Kent in England developed a method for fabricating nanowires using bacteria. The project, presented…

Q&A With Toyoko Orimoto

By Gwen Schanker, Journalism and Biology, 2017

Toyoko Orimoto is an assistant professor in Northeastern’s physics department, and is one of four faculty members who contribute to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…

Co-op Spotlight: Navy SEAL(ion)s

By Megan Pinaire, Psychology, 2018

This summer, I did a four-month co-op with the Navy marine mammal program. I worked at the Navy base in Point Loma, California. Just across the bay from scenic Coronado island are the ocean water pens where I…

Building with Biology

By Joshua Timmons, Biology, 2016

There’s a frizzy-haired architect hunched over his keyboard at a workstation diagonal from my own in Snell. He has a colorful program open with a map of a city in two dimensions; streets, buildings, and decorations are represented…

Stepping Through Stigma

By Naomi Stapleton, Psychology, 2016

Over centuries, there has been progress in mental health both strikingly forwards and shockingly backwards. Depression (or as it was known in ancient times, melancholia) has a particularly turbulent history of treatment and…

Revolutionizing HIV

By Ololade “Lola” Akingbade, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018

One of the largest public health crises facing our nation is HIV/AIDS. HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, is characterized by a progressive failure of the immune system, and can lead to acquired…

Real Talk about NUTalk

By Shannon Jones, Marine Biology, 2016

Last Thursday night saw Raytheon Theater full of students, faculty, and even members of the Boston community gathered for an unusual event — NU Talk 2016, a TED-style event hosted by Northeastern’s Biology Club. The event…

Genetic Counseling: When Sci-Fi Doesn’t Feel Like Fiction Anymore

By Jen Obrigewitch, Biology, 2017

“It’s in my genes” is a phrase that is commonly used to describe physical and personality traits that a child shares with his or her parents. But for the…

Separation Anxiety: Phone Edition

In a generation filled with daily technological advancements and expanding media networks, smartphones appear to be becoming more essential than our basic human necessities. We are beyond the point of returning to the days of conducting research from those big, bulky…