Laura Castañón - News @ Northeastern

What if pictures of your brain could predict schizophrenia?

Northeastern neuroscientist Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli has found that a particular pattern of brain activity may be an early sign of schizophrenia.

by Laura Castañón November 26, 2018

Northeastern joins forces with Suffolk Construction to build the future of data

Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business is forming a partnership with Suffolk Construction, a national contracting company, to develop data-based solutions to help businesses succeed.

by Laura Castañón November 20, 2018

Tracking an epidemic requires computer models. But what if those models are wrong?

Researchers at Northeastern have found that one of the basic assumptions used in disease modeling simply isn’t realistic. Now they’re looking at how epidemics travel through various layers of a population to find a better way to track a disease.

by Laura Castañón November 19, 2018

Five things we’ve learned about marijuana

As Massachusetts prepares to open its first recreational marijuana dispensaries on Tuesday, the Office of Prevention and Education at Northeastern is working to ensure that students and staff understand the potential drawbacks of smoking weed.

by Laura Castañón November 19, 2018

Here’s what Northeastern is doing to make faculty leadership more diverse

Debra Franko, Northeastern’s senior vice provost for academic affairs, has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create a leadership training program for minority faculty who work in science, technology, engineering, and math departments at a select group of universities in Boston.

by Laura Castañón November 15, 2018

Bringing the ocean to the people

To devise ways to communicate ocean science to the general public, researchers, teachers, and communicators brought drones, scientific tools, bags of beach garbage, and an excess of colored markers to Northeastern’s Boston campus Thursday for the first day of the 2018 Ocean Literacy Summit.

by Laura Castañón November 15, 2018

Quantum information systems will revolutionize computing… as soon as we figure out how to make them.

Physics professor Arun Bansil has received a $3.54 million grant from the Department of Energy to investigate new ways to design quantum information systems, which could revolutionize data encryption, enable new medical treatments, and more accurately model the changing climate.

by Laura Castañón November 5, 2018

Clearing up misconceptions about gun violence could make suicide attempts less deadly, study says

There are roughly twice as many suicides as homicides in the United States every year, and more than half of them involve guns. According to a new study by Matthew Miller, a Northeastern professor of health sciences, most people have no idea that suicide is the most common type of violent death.

by Laura Castañón November 1, 2018

Think you’re getting your message out on Twitter? This app lets you find out for sure.

Northeastern network scientist Lásló Barabási has built an app to measure Twitter users’ ability to engage their followers.

by Laura Castañón and Hannah Moore November 1, 2018

Fighting wildfires is a dangerous job. These researchers have a plan to make it safer.

Chiara Bellini and Jessica Oakes, assistant professors of bioengineering at Northeastern, recently received a $1.5 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to study the health consequences of smoke inhalation on wildland firefighters.

by Laura Castañón October 30, 2018

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