Angela Herring

Calling all Huskies

At Monday’s Bouvé Dean’s Seminar Series, Judith Salerno of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) presented a challenge to Northeastern students and their…

by Angela Herring January 31, 2012

3Qs: Physicists push for underground testing facility

Pran Nath, the Matthews Distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, is among a group of leading theoretical physicists who have asked the Department of Energy to develop a large underground neutrino facility to maintain U.S. leadership in the frontier of particle physics. We asked Nath to explain the facility and its value.

by Angela Herring January 30, 2012

Bringing science to society

Judith Salerno of the Institute of Medicine addressed the Northeastern community in the first event in the Bouvé Dean’s Seminar Series.

by Angela Herring January 30, 2012

3Qs: It’s all in the mind

The American Psychological Association recently released a study reporting that one in five Americans is extremely stressed. We asked Erin Sharaf, a clinical instructor in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and a former primary-care provider, to expound on the concept of stress from a physiological perspective and what we can do to reduce stress in our own lives.

by Angela Herring January 27, 2012

Bringing chemistry to music

By day, professor David Budil teaches wave equations. By night, he plays the viola in a number of high-profile orchestras.

by Angela Herring January 22, 2012

A partnership to cure sleeping sickness

Chemistry professor Michael Pollastri collaborates with pharmaceutical company and researchers in Spain to identify existing drugs that could be modified to stop a scourge of sub-Saharan Africa.

by Angela Herring January 19, 2012

The blues doctor is in the house

College of Science Dean Murray Gibson tickles the ivories to illustrate the physics behind music and how it gave us the blues.

by Angela Herring January 19, 2012

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