Posts by Angela Herring
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The good (but not too good) side of getting old
A few years ago I caught a snippet of an interview with actress Helena Bonham Carter talking about aging. I will never forget the way…
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Wherefore art thou, dear zooplankton?
Graduate student Amanda Dwyer will lead a research project in conjunction with Mission 31, a monthlong underwater expedition led by Fabien Cousteau, in which she’ll…
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Alumnus earns Fulbright for research in South Africa
Backed by funding from a Fulbright research grant, Dan Marsden, S’13, will study the paternal effects of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in South Africa.
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3Qs: Listen to the words
Joanne Miller, Matthews Distinguished University Professor and chair of Northeastern’s Department of Psychology, was recently recognized for her pioneering research on human language processing in…
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A simpler way to treat cancer
New research co-authored by professor Vladimir Torchilin and published in the journal Nature Medicine on Sunday presents a straightforward approach to destroying cancer cells that…
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Weekly Webcrawl: May 30, 2014
I’ve been having some crazy dreams lately, which I hear is a symptom of being knocked up. Here’s a review of a book…
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Guest post: The a-capella-singing salamander scientist
Today’s guest post comes to you from the capable hands of blossoming science writer Gwen Schanker, AMD’18. Schanker just completed her first year at Northeastern,…
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3Qs: Gender balance in biomedical research
A new policy from the National Institutes of Health will require all biomedical research funded by the NIH to be gender balanced. Here, Rebecca Shanksy,…
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Researchers soak up data from Mission 31
As part of a month-long underwater research mission, graduate student Allison Matzelle will lead a project studying the flow of energy through one of the…
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Antarctic co-op: Adventures in fishing
This is a guest blog post by Eileen Sheehan, a biochemistry student at Northeastern University who is on co-op at Palmer Station, Antarctica.
