Leaving a Leg(acy): Donating Your Body and Brain to Science By Stephanie Wasiuk, Biology, 2017 People always say “I want to make a difference in the world, leave it better than I found it.” Most probably have something flashy in mind, like pulling the entire homeless population out of poverty or solving the world’s energy crisis. […]

Uncut Interview: Professor Tarik Gouhier on Statistics, Modeling, and Climate Change NUScience’s Lucas Cohen sat down with Professor Tarik Gouhier to discuss his background and research as part of a feature for NUScience magazine issue 28. This unabbreviated transcript offers more detail from their conversation. Before we move on to the broader topics, I’d like to

Breaking The Ice: The Changing Face of Climate Change in Mass Media By Erica Yee, Journalism and Information Science, 2020 Comedian and commentator John Oliver For many years, the media has framed the reality of global climate change as controversial and uncertain. In a 1950 article titled “Is the World Getting Warmer?”, the Saturday Evening Post spearheaded

Stumped by Trees By Emily Ashbolt, Biomedical Physics, 2017 How many trees are there in on your road? In Boston? In the US? Could you estimate? Where would you go to find out? If you answered “I don’t know” to any or all of the above questions, you are not alone. As it turns out, only

Changing the Carriers By Cicely Krebill, Biology, 2019 Climate change and the concept of a “carbon footprint” has long been in the forefront of the public’s eye. A new focus, however, in the realm of climate change is now being brought to the table for discussion: the risk of vector-borne diseases coming to new regions in

I Am Iron Ocean By Shannon Jones, Marine Biology, 2016 With the rise of global carbon dioxide levels, many researchers are looking to reduce anthropogenic climate change in order to reduce global biosphere change. The rise in temperature occurring currently is considered irreversible for at least 1,000 years after anthropogenic emissions stop. One method of reducing

Are We There Yet? Building the Grid of the Future By David Rosenberg, Chemical Engineering, 2020 The 2015 Paris Climate Conference ratified a global consensus that coal, oil, and natural gas combustion will need to fall dramatically in the coming decades. Nevertheless, the debate over how to power an increasingly energy-hungry world continues to rage. Technologies

Climate Change 101: From Atmosphere to Zebrafish By Jameson O’Reilly, Physics and Math, 2019 Statistically speaking, unless you are a member of Congress, you probably acknowledge that global climate change is happening and that it is a threat to humanity’s future. Even so, some of the details might be a little fuzzy. The story begins

How’s the Weather Down There? By Lucas Cohen, Marine Biology, 2019 At 1:42 pm EST on January 17th, NOAA’s Jason-3 satellite left earth strapped aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, primed to uncover global patterns in sea level rise and relay critical climate-relevant data to researchers at NOAA, NASA, and the French space agency, CNES. Jason-3