Angela Herring, Author at News @ Northeastern

The thinking behind gender stereotypes

Adults and children hold equally stereotypical views about gender, according to new research from associate professor of psychology John Coley’s lab.

by Angela Herring August 4, 2014

How to secure the cloud

With support from the National Science Foundation, cryptography expert Daniel Wichs, an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science, will work as part of a multi-university team to develop better encryption techniques to improve cloud security.

by Angela Herring August 1, 2014

What’s wiping out the Caribbean corals?

Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn and Felicia Aronson, two student-researchers at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center, turned to crowdfunding to support their work on examining white-band disease, which has killed up to 95 percent of the Caribbean’s reef building corals.

by Angela Herring July 31, 2014

Climate change research goes to the extremes

In a new paper, Northeastern researchers show how they’ve used advanced computational data science tools to demonstrate that despite global warming, we may still experience severe cold snaps due to increasing variability in temperature extremes.

by Angela Herring July 30, 2014

Signing off

I’ve been procrastinating writing this post because, well, I’m not great with goodbyes. Here’s the thing: After an incredible two-and-a-half-year run at Northeastern, I’ve accepted a…

by Angela Herring July 26, 2014

3Qs: Global impact of the Ebola outbreak

Northeastern professor and network scientist Alessandro Vespignani—a world-renowned expert who has developed computational models to predict the spread of disease—discusses the recent outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa.

by Angela Herring July 25, 2014

Where are the whales?

New research from Purnima Ratilal, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering whose expertise is in underwater acoustic sensing methods, provides high-resolution localization data of sperm whales swimming in shallow continental shelf waters.