Angela Herring

Guest post: Life lessons from counting phytoplankton

As part of her co-op, Sam Wessel is doing research with graduate student Jennifer Elliott at the Marine Science Center…

by Angela Herring April 22, 2014

Weekly Webcrawl: April 18, 2014

Just a pretty picture of a jellyfish from the California Academy of Sciences. Photo by Sonny Abesamis via…

by Angela Herring April 18, 2014

A biological engine for human language

New research out of Northeastern psychology professor Iris Berent’s lab suggests that humans’ capacity for creating language is encoded in our brains as a universal set of rules.

by Angela Herring April 17, 2014

The biggest problem on the planet

Photo via Thinkstock. A couple months ago the National Science Foundation released some surprising stats about what Americans do (and…

by Angela Herring April 17, 2014

A beautiful, peculiar molecule

In the latest installment of the Profiles in Innovation Presidential Speaker Series, Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto discussed his discovery of Buckminsterfullerene with a standing-room-only audience.

by Angela Herring April 15, 2014

Career advice for future biotech leaders

At the sixth event in Northeastern’s Women Who Inspire series, CEOs of three of the area’s top pharmaceutical companies discussed the challenges and rewards of being a leader in the drug discovery industry.

by Angela Herring April 14, 2014

Weekly Webcrawl: April 11, 2014

I still haven’t gotten over my excitement about spring. What is it about seeing these tiny little buds that triggers…

by Angela Herring April 11, 2014

3Qs: A new path to curing chronic Lyme disease

University Distinguished Professor of Biology Kim Lewis is exploring alternative approaches to curing chronic Lyme disease using his expertise in bacterial cell persistence.

by Angela Herring April 10, 2014

The wonder of human movement

Northeastern professor Dagmar Sternad received the 50th annual Robert D. Klein University Lecturer Award on Tuesday and discussed her interdisciplinary research on how the brain controls the human body.