guest posts
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Guest post: A Facebook apologia
Northeastern post-doctoral researcher Brian Keegan explains the science, the debate, and the implications of a recent Facebook study on the spread of emotion through the social network in a guest blog post on iNSolution.
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Guest post: The a-capella-singing salamander scientist
Today’s guest post comes to you from the capable hands of blossoming science writer Gwen Schanker, AMD’18. Schanker just completed her first year at Northeastern, where she studies journalism and biology. She is a regular contributor to The Huntington News and the NU Science Magazine, as well as several other publications around the web. You…
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Guest post: RoboLobster goes to India
This post was written by one of my favorite Northeastern grad students, Dan Blustein, who studies biomimetic robots in biology professor Joe Ayers’ lab. Read on for details on his trip to India, where he showed off those robots at a student-run conference and picked up a few life lessons along the way.
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Guest post: The security of every day things
Assistant professor Wil Robertson studies systems security research. Photo by Brooks Canaday. This post was written by assistant professor Wil Robertson. We are in the midst of an explosive proliferation of computing devices. Once confined to the domain of massive, expensive mainframes tended to by teams of specialists, technological…
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Guest post: An underwater science ‘Mission’
This guest post is written by Lori Lennon, communications coordinator and senior writer in the College of Science. You could say I am a little biased, but the scientists here in the College of Science at Northeastern University are doing some amazing research, which has offered up some pretty cool opportunities for them.
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In the lab: Mike Pollastri
Chemistry and chemical biology associate professor Michael Pollastri has several undergraduate and graduate students working in his lab. They mix and create compounds, test whether those compounds are what is needed, and hope to find treatments for many of the world’s neglected tropical diseases. Naimee Mehta, a second-year graduate student, and Anthony Varca, who received…
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Guest post: Opening up drug discovery for neglected diseases
Chemsitry and chemical biology associate professor Michael Pollastri uses a drug repurposing approach to identify new treatments for neglected tropical diseases. Photo by Brooks Canaday. This post was written by associate professor Michael Pollastri. Neglected tropical diseases are a collection of infectious diseases that primarily affect the poor in…
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Guest Post: Science in the Game of Thrones
Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Did you watch GoT last night? If not, don’t worry, the following post will not reveal a thing, I promise. Rebecca Certner, a PhD candidate in Steve Vollmer’s lab, wrote it a couple weeks ago for the Marine Science Center’s graduate…
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Guest post: Lessons from a Riser Lecturer
Professor Paul Dayton of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California spoke at the Marine Science Center on April 26. Photo by Kara Sassone. April 26 marked the annual Riser Lecture at the Marine Science Center to honor Doc Riser, the founding director of the MSC.
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Guest Post: The one billion map
Image courtesy of Albert-László Barabási. Earlier this month, the Obama administration announced its plan to put $100 million toward building a network map of the human brain. World leading network scientist and Northeastern Distinguished Professor Albert-László Barabási is excited about the new project, but says the so-called…
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Guest Post: Compassion — it does a society good
Photo by poptech via Flickr. I’m excited to introduce today’s guest blogger: Lori Lennon, science communications diva. That’s not her official title, just what I like to call her. Really, she’s the communications coordinator for the College of Science and she had the good fortune of attending IDEAS Boston at UMass…
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Guest Post: A lifelong dream of Mars realized
A week ago I wrote a post about one of Northeastern’s art, media and design students spending her summer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As I mentioned, Maddy San Martin’s father was instrumental in the recent Curiosity rover landing. Miguel San Martin, Chief Engineer for Guidance, Navigation & Control on the Curiosity mission, was…