Northeastern Films

Here’s why a COVID-19 vaccine may not be enough

“It’s not going to be sufficient just to get a viable vaccine,” says Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain management. A reliable supply of…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   June 19, 2020

The ocean is losing biodiversity. They’re trying to capture it before it’s gone.

“By volume, about 99 percent of the habitable portion of our planet is underwater,” says Dan Distel, who directs Northeastern’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center. To…

• by Benjamin Bertsch and Adam Fischer   June 12, 2020

The Immunization Effect in Africa

Mass immunization programs for diseases such as measles, cholera, and yellow fever have been suspended during the pandemic, leaving as many as 117 million children…

• by Benjamin Bertsch and Adam Fischer   May 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has left hospitals short of masks. This family is rallying to help.

Northeastern student Hannah Rosenblatt and her family have turned their home into a veritable factory that churns out mask-making kits. Once the masks are assembled,…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   April 17, 2020

What hidden mysteries lie within the 15th-century Dragon Prayer Book?

When researchers unearthed a tiny, fragile prayer book hidden deep in Northeastern’s archives, they embarked on a journey to unlock its mysteries. Complex script, medieval…

• by Adam Fischer, Benjamin Bertsch and Cam Sleeper   February 20, 2020

Murder in Mobile: A documentary short film about race, murder, and one family’s search for the truth 70 years later

In 1948, in Mobile, Alabama, a black man named Rayfield Davis was beaten to death by a white man who was not prosecuted. The crime…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   January 28, 2019