physics
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Awards in science, engineering, the arts among honors to Northeastern community
Every year, Northeastern faculty, students, and staff earn distinguished recognition for their innovative research. In the past five months, the honors have ranged from a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health awarded to associate professor Michael Pollastri to conduct drug discovery for human African trypanosomiasis, or “sleeping sickness,” to five undergraduates awarded the 2016-17 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy Society Scholarship.
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Physicist uses light to accelerate treatment of drug-resistant cancers
Assistant professor Bryan Spring develops photodynamic therapies that both target malignant cells and halt new tumor growth. It’s a novel one-two punch approach to personalized medicine.
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The growth of physics research, and its changing impact on our lives
Over the past century, the discipline of physics has expanded exponentially, crossing boundaries into areas as diverse as biology and engineering. Network scientists in the lab of Albert-László Barabási analyzed how this growth drives technological breakthroughs that improve our lives.
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Researchers find the organization of the human brain to be nearly ideal
A new strategy for mapping networks, from those underlying the Internet to the human brain, suggests possibilities for repairing damaged connections and disrupting dangerous ones.
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Swiss Mountains beckon physics student for dream co-op
Working at the Large Hadron Collider has been Nick DePorzio’s dream since his senior year in high school. In a couple weeks, that dream will become a reality when the physics student starts his co-op at CERN, which hosts the famous particle collider.
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Cloudy with a chance of pumpkins
On Thursday, first-year engineering students participated in the annual fall event dubbed an “egg drop on steroids,” in which pumpkins are hurled off atop Gainsborough Garage, all in the name of learning about important engineering principles.
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The science of a career
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The wonder of human movement
Northeastern professor Dagmar Sternad received the 50th annual Robert D. Klein University Lecturer Award on Tuesday and discussed her interdisciplinary research on how the brain controls the human body.
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Where art and science intersect
Photo by Mary Knox Merrill. The following post was generously contributed by Santiago Gil, a postdoctoral research associate at Northeastern’s Center for Complex Network Research. Botond Részegh and Albert-László Barabási share a singular history. Both were born in a small village near Csíkszereda,…
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Brilliant and motivated, but a good hire?
World-renowned network scientist Albert László Barabási was installed as the inaugural Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science on Monday, when he delivered a lecture highlighting his research on the “science of success.”
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Take 5: Questions of the heart
From studying the physics of a heartbeat to designing new cardiac disease detection methods, these five researchers have the heart on the brain.
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Particle physics goes public
Northeastern is part of an international consortium working to make all data from the field of high-energy particle physics available to the public.