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Faculty Highlight: Dr. Randall Hughes-Associate Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences Department By Lucas Principe, Environmental Science and Philosophy, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 33: Water. Dr. Randall Hughes has been a professor in the Marine and Environmental Science Department here at Northeastern since January of 2013. She teaches […]

AI saves the day — and the planet By Apurva Jain, Data Science and Business Administration, 2023 Photo credit: Shutterstock If people are excited about how the movement against plastic straws is saving the sea turtles, artificial intelligence — and its rising significance in saving the planet — will blow them away. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the endeavor to simulate human intelligence

How drinking can literally change the ‘Shape of You’: Effect of alcohol on neuronal structure of the brain By Sharvari Ajit Deepti Narendra, Bioinformatics, 2020 Source: Pixabay When people think of alcohol, their mind might remember the last time they were drunk — the low glutamate levels causing their thought process to slow down, the increased gamma-Aminobutyric acid

Visionaries By Lucas Principe, Environmental Science and Philosophy, 2020 Source: Pixabay This piece was published as part of Issue 34: Color. It is sometime in the mid-3rd century BCE. Aristotle, the most famous philosopher of his day, is strolling through the sunlight grove of the school he established, The Lyceum, discussing his ideas on a

Ophidiophobia: why you may have it By Lucas Principe, Philosophy and Environmental Science, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published in Issue 40: Wonder. Ophidiophobia, or the fear of snakes, is consistently listed as one of America’s top aversions, along with public speaking, heights, needles, and small spaces. Most notably, a 2001 Gallup poll found

Think Before You Shop: The Case for Buying Local By Lucas Principe, Environmental Science and Philosophy, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 36: Local. Buying local means something different everywhere. What is local to us here in Boston means something completely different to someone in a small town like Atchinson,

The Modern-Day Moral Philosopher By Lucas Principe, Environmental Science & Philosophy, 2020 Professor John Basl. Photo credit: Gus Mueller This article was originally published as part of Issue 38: People. Sitting in his office, looking out the window from the third floor of Holmes Hall, Professor John Basl is as close to a stock photo of

The Building Blocks of Political Debates By Emily Chen, Data Science and Biochemistry, 2023 Photo: Shutterstock For two intense hours, candidates exchange arguments on hot topics — the war against Iran, healthcare, climate change — in what is known as the Democratic debate. Afterwards, news and social media networks take their turn, giving their opinions on the strength of

The Life of an Estuarine Ecologist: An Interview with Dr. Rikke Jeppesen — Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve By Lucas Principe, Environmental Science and Philosophy, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 39: Synthetic. Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ESNERR) is a 1700-acre wildlife reserve located in central California — an area where