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Center for Emerging Markets (CEM)
Director: Ravi Ramamurti: Director, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy, and Jeff Bornstein Senior Fellow Welcome to Northeastern University’s Center for Emerging Markets (CEM), which was founded in 2007 in anticipation of the rise of these countries in the global economy! It is today a leading center for research on … Continued
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Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict (BCVC)
Director: Gordana Rabrenovic, Associate Professor of Sociology Founded with an $800,000 gift from alumnus Irving Brudnick and his wife Betty Brudnick, the Center seeks to reduce conflict and violence between individuals and groups in a variety of areas including: school violence, terrorism, hate crimes, international conflict and warfare, hate speech on campus, religious persecution, and … Continued
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Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis (Barnett)
Director: Penny Beuning, Interim Director An internationally recognized center for advanced interdisciplinary research and training in analytical chemistry and biotechnology, the Barnett Institute’s work includes proteomics, biomarker discovery, drug synthesis and development, environmental cancer agent detection and ultrasensitive instrumentation. The Barnett Institute’s research team, which includes two endowed chairs in bioanalytical chemistry, an additional 20 … Continued
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Antimicrobial Discovery Center (ADC)
Director: Kim Lewis, University Distinguished Professor The mission of the Center is to translate basic science discoveries into novel antimicrobial therapies to combat Biowarfare and conventional pathogen threats. Antimicrobial drug discovery is in a state of crisis ? the last class of broad-spectrum compounds, the fluoroquinolones, was discovered 40 years ago. The rise of multidrug … Continued
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At RISE, students pursue invention and find themselves
Hundreds of students participating in the annual Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo were lined up, row after row, alongside their projects, which were spelled out with text and graphics on easily digestible posters.
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Northeastern researchers may have discovered why some tumors grow back aggressively after radiation, chemotherapy
Many of the commonly used cancer treatments kill tumor cells. But sometimes, after those cells have died and been cleared away, a tumor will respond by growing faster and more aggressively. Using computer modeling, Northeastern professors Gunther Zupanc and Rifat Sipahi may have figured out why.
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Northeastern researchers discover new species of shipworm in Philippines
Researchers from Northeastern’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center in Nahant, Massachusetts, discovered a new species of wood-boring clam in the Philippines.
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