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Since 2006, Northeastern University has dramatically expanded its research enterprise, with particular emphasis on three global imperatives: health, security and sustainability. Working intentionally across disciplines, Northeastern faculty members are focused on solving real problems in the world. NGN Research tells the stories of these important accomplishments.
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From right swipe to writing: How this Northeastern professor wrote a book with a fellow entrepreneur she met on a dating app
April 19, 2024
When Paula Caligiuri, a distinguished professor of international business and strategy, met Andy Palmer on Bumble, the pair realized their romantic connection wasn’t as strong as their professional one, so they wrote a book together about taking control of your career.
Almost half of US prisons are likely contaminated by dangerous ‘forever chemicals,’ new Northeastern research shows
April 17, 2024
In prisons, where health care is already poor, the danger posed by PFAS exposure is even greater, says Phil Brown, a Northeastern professor of sociology and health sciences. Based on an analysis of all 6,118 prisons and detention centers in the United States, researchers found that 5%, about 310, have a known PFAS contamination site nearby, with many more near presumptive contamination sites.
How can humans and machines work in harmony? Through the power of collaboration, supply chain expert says in book
April 12, 2024
In rethinking business models in the age of artificial intelligence, Northeastern University professor Nada Sanders, co-author of “The Humachine: AI, Human Virtues and the Superintelligent Enterprise,” says it’s essential that humans are not replaced as part of this technological reshuffling, but are instead at the center of it.
Honors & Awards
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Publications
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April 11, 2024
Parrots can play tablet games for enrichment. Now researchers are studying how to improve them for birds to use
April 10, 2024
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‘Genome-Wide Association Identifies a BAHD Acyltransferase Activity that Assembles an Ester of Glucuronosylglycerol and Phenylacetic Acid’
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‘Developing and Sustaining Northeastern’s Ed.D. Program During and Post Pandemic’
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‘Design for Emergency: How Digital Technologies Enabled an Open Design Platform to Respond to COVID-19’
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‘Monodromy of the Casimir Connection of a Symmetrisable Kac–Moody Algebra’