chemistry
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Meet the graduates: Travis DeLano
Each day this week, as the campus community prepares for Friday’s Commencement, we’ll introduce you to a member of the graduating class. Travis DeLano is a University Scholar with a near-perfect GPA and a passion for chemistry. Here, he reflects on his past five years at Northeastern and looks ahead to the future.
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Squid-inspired electronic screens: How one professor builds tech solutions that replicate nature
Assistant professor Leila Deravi takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the proteins that drive complex biological systems and building materials in the lab that replicate those systems. Among her research projects are optical displays inspired by squids and a face cream that strengthens skin proteins to reduce wrinkles.
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Graduate researcher wins fellowship to design drugs to combat deadly disease
Chemistry doctoral student Dana Klug makes possible drug options the way a chef makes a gourmet dish—adding an atom of hydrogen here, removing an atom of nitrogen there—to stop a deadly parasite in its tracks.
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New grant to advance sleeping sickness treatment research
Associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology Michael Pollastri has received a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance his research into a treatment for sleeping sickness.
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The making of a chemist
Richard Ernst won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1991 for his work on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, or NMR, spectroscopy. Photo by Brooks Canaday. By the time he was 3 years old, Richard Ernst had not yet learned to speak his native language. His only way of communicating was through the…
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How does Furby do it?
What do you do in your spare time? Personally, I’ve been reading Game of Thrones and re-covering my couch cushions. Others play sports or watch movies. But I know of only one person who reverse engineers Furby dolls when he’s got some down time. Yes, you read the right. Michael Coppola, CIS ’15,…
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‘Faster, cheaper, cleaner’
Chemistry professor and chair Graham Jones uses environmentally (and financially) friendly methods to conduct organic drug research.
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Researcher studies protein’s role in aging
Sunny Zhou, an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has received $1 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the importance of an enzyme in aging and disease.
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‘Battery’ to the Future
Northeastern graduate students are working to develop the next generation of energy efficient lithium batteries.
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Metallic personalities
Image via Thinkstock. Civil and environmental engineering professor Philip Larese-Casanova has had a life-long love affair with metals. In his work in aquatic environmental chemistry, he looks at how metallic pollutants transform and behave in freshwater systems. “I just had an interest in the metals,” he told me in an interview…
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Award-winning club has good biochemistry
The leaders of the Northeastern Biochemistry club attribute its success to strong friendships and a deep interest in the field.
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Northeastern researchers on the Boeing battery failures
Photo via Thinkstock. By now you’ve probably heard of the Boeing 787 Dreamliners and the problems they had in their first weeks in the air. Basically, the Dreamliner is an extremely fuel-efficient airliner. It was the first to use composite materials to reduce weight and the first to use “large format” lithium-ion batteries. Due…