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Here’s how the government shutdown is affecting research at Northeastern

As the United States enters the third week of a partial government shutdown, federally funded research at Northeastern University is so far “minimally affected” and…

by Molly Callahan January 9, 2019

InSight has landed on Mars. Now the real work begins.

The data from InSight will help researchers understand how Mars was formed. These same processes shaped Earth and the other terrestrial planets more than four…

by Laura Castañón November 26, 2018

The secret ingredients behind Chicken Lou’s

Northeastern’s signature fast-food restaurant, managed by second-generation proprietor Dave Ferretti, has been feeding students, faculty, and staff for 28 years.

by Ian Thomsen September 12, 2018

Students want to break world record for highest altitude reached by a rocket

The current world record for highest altitude reached by a student-made rocket is 144,000 feet. In August, a team of students, including three from Northeastern,…

by Sophia Fox-Sowell June 25, 2018

Northeastern students win NASA's Mars Ice Challenge with a robot built to extract water from the Red Planet

For manned Martian missions to be possible, astronauts will need a lot more water than they can carry on a spacecraft. Enter a team of…

by Allie Nicodemo June 8, 2018

Imagine a human-robot friendship

Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and…

by Molly Callahan October 19, 2017

Valkyrie's skills

Students demonstrate NASA's humanoid robot prototype Valkyrie’s abilities in the atrium of the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on Thursday. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University…

by Matthew Modoono April 7, 2017

Northeastern researchers help establish new institute to advance robotics in manufacturing

Northeastern University researchers led by robotics expert Taskin Padir have been selected to partner with a consortium of universities, nonprofit institutions, local…

by Thea Singer January 25, 2017

Northeastern alumnus the genius behind life-saving EpiPen

Sheldon Kaplan “always wanted to be an engineer and to go to Northeastern,” recalls his son, Michael. Kaplan lived out those dreams, and the world-famous…

by Thea Singer September 14, 2016

Researchers mine ‘a tsunami of free data’ from space

Geospatial intelligence is a rapidly growing field that harnesses the power of today’s “tsunami of free data” and has a range of applications, from national…

by Thea Singer July 25, 2016