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My Co-op at Green City Growers: A Leader in the Urban Farming Movement

My Co-op at Green City Growers: A Leader in the Urban Farming Movement By Dan Chamberlain, Environmental Science, 2015 When I first accepted my co-op position at Green City Growers, I had no idea what the next seven months had in store for me. I didn’t know much about urban farming, or really anything to do […]

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Your Brain on YouTube: fMRIs Reverse Engineer the Visual Experience

Your Brain on YouTube: fMRIs Reverse Engineer the Visual Experience The past decade has witnessed a huge boom in the innovations made in film technology, and a research team at UC Berkeley thinks they may have discovered the next hottest thing. Comparing what we see in everyday life as a sort of movie, Gallant and

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Dr. Lawrence and Chromosome Therapy

Dr. Lawrence and Chromosome Therapy By Joshua Timmons, Biology, 2016 This past Monday Northeastern hosted a visit with Dr. Jeanne Lawrence, a cell biologist from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Her talk was a part of Northeastern’s “Profiles in Innovation,” hosted by Northeastern’s president himself, Joseph Auon. During the hour-long discussion, Lawrence outlined her

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