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• Science of science

  

  How Big Data and the science of science can revolutionize discovery

  
  

  Northeastern network scientists Albert-László Barabási and Alessandro Vespignani want to "push the pedal" on science and its benefit to society. In a paper published Thursday…

  • by Allie Nicodemo   March 5, 2018

• Public health

  

  Researchers use Twitter to track the flu in real time

  
  

  An international team led by Northeastern’s Alessandro Vespignani has developed a unique computational model that uses Twitter to project the spread of the seasonal flu…

  • by Thea Singer   May 5, 2017

• Science & Technology

  

  Researchers tracking Ebola’s spread win first Aspen Institute Italia Award

  
  

  [alt blurb:] Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani led an international collaborative effort to track the spread of Ebola in Liberia. The Aspen Institute award, Vespignani says,…

  • by Thea Singer   October 27, 2016

• Health

  

  Underreporting of Zika is rife; researchers project epidemic’s spread

  
  

  A team led by Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani responded to a “call to arms” to model the spread of the Zika virus, revealing the disparity…

  • by Thea Singer   August 2, 2016

• Society & Culture

  

  Northeastern researchers examine the Zika pandemic

  
  

  As the Zika virus continues its inexorable spread, a panel of faculty members discussed how they—and by extension we—can be part of the global solution.

  • by Thea Singer   April 11, 2016

• Society & Culture

  

  What social media data could tell us about the future

  
  

  Can a flow of information across Twitter signal when a momentous event is about to occur? Northeastern’s Alessandro Vespignani and an interdisciplinary group of scientists…

  • by Thea Singer   April 7, 2016

• Science & Technology

  

  World-renowned scholars launch Northeastern’s Network Science Institute

  
  

  The Network Science Institute, home of the nation’s first doctoral program in network science, brings together an interdisciplinary team of renowned Northeastern scholars to plumb…

  • by Thea Singer   November 6, 2015

• Health

  

  Should we be worried about the plague?

  
  

  California’s Department of Public Health announced that a child contracted the plague after visiting Yosemite National Park in July, the third reported case this year.

  • by Matthew McDonald   August 12, 2015

• Health

  

  3Qs: Tracking the flu

  
  

  Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani, a world-renowned statistical physicist, is working to forecast the spread of the flu.

  • by Greg St. Martin   January 20, 2015

• Society & Culture

  

  A new tool to follow Ebola news on Twitter

  
  

  A new Web tool co-developed by network scientist Alessandro Vespignani and his team at Northeastern’s MoBS Lab pulls Twitter mentions of Ebola-related keywords and displays…

  • by Greg St. Martin   November 6, 2014

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