Uncategorized

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

The Fate of Fat By Claire Williams, Biology, 2019 It’s the beginning of a new year. Everyone has been hitting the gym and burning some fat. Or have they? No, this isn’t a question of whether or not people are upholding their New Year’s resolutions. Rather, it is a question of the process at play. Is

Too Late to Apologize (to Earth)? By Brian Hempe, Mechanical Engineering, 2020 Carbon dioxide (CO2) significantly contributes to the greenhouse gas effect — in which solar energy is trapped and reflected off the ozone layer back towards Earth. This has a negative effect on the Earth because it changes weather patterns, and as recently observed, raises the global

Q&A With Toyoko Orimoto By Gwen Schanker, Journalism and Biology, 2017 Toyoko Orimoto is an assistant professor in Northeastern’s physics department, and is one of four faculty members who contribute to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Orimoto spends much of her time conducting research at Northeastern

Building with Biology By Joshua Timmons, Biology, 2016 There’s a frizzy-haired architect hunched over his keyboard at a workstation diagonal from my own in Snell. He has a colorful program open with a map of a city in two dimensions; streets, buildings, and decorations are represented by a pallet of orthogonal shapes, a gridwork of architectural

Stepping Through Stigma By Naomi Stapleton, Psychology, 2016 Over centuries, there has been progress in mental health both strikingly forwards and shockingly backwards. Depression (or as it was known in ancient times, melancholia) has a particularly turbulent history of treatment and perception. Melancholia was initially attributed to demonic possession in many civilizations. Hippocrates, hailed as “The

Revolutionizing HIV By Ololade “Lola” Akingbade, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018 One of the largest public health crises facing our nation is HIV/AIDS. HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, is characterized by a progressive failure of the immune system, and can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. There is no current effective cure. As a global pandemic, 35.3

Genetic Counseling: When Sci-Fi Doesn’t Feel Like Fiction Anymore By Jen Obrigewitch, Biology, 2017 “It’s in my genes” is a phrase that is commonly used to describe physical and personality traits that a child shares with his or her parents. But for the general public, there was no proof of which genes were actually present in