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Since 2006, Northeastern University has dramatically expanded its research enterprise, with particular emphasis on three global imperatives: health, security and sustainability. Working intentionally across disciplines, Northeastern faculty members are focused on solving real problems in the world. NGN Research tells the stories of these important accomplishments.

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Northeastern researcher uses light to target and kill cancer cells

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August 25, 2025

Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe is using light-sensitive drugs to target two of the deadliest cancers — without the toxic side effects of traditional chemotherapy.

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Navigating a New Political Landscape: Frequently Asked Questions

August 4, 2025

Northeastern evaluates policy changes affecting research, teaching, and its community under the Trump administration.

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How Northeastern scientists are using Antarctic sea spiders to study life on the edge

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August 22, 2025

Northeastern students are helping a biologist extract spider guts — from legs as long as a dinner plate — to study how life survives in some of Earth’s coldest waters.

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‘Black Moses’ tells a powerful story of political ambition

Gayle, an award-winning journalist and associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, astutely casts the territory as an arena for clashing visions of American democracy.

Boston Takes On Dirty Stormwater

Now, 12 years after construction was completed, the Mystic River Watershed Association is collaborating with a researcher from Northeastern University to study the wetland’s impact on water quality. Results are still pending, but in other places, constructed wetlands have removed between 45 and 90 percent of the phosphorus from urban stormwater.

How tech pinpoints urban heat islands and makes cooling projects easier

The Common SENSES project is a collaboration of community-based organizations, including the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Project Right Inc.; university researchers like me who are affiliated with Northeastern University’s Boston Area Research Initiative; and Boston city officials. It was created to pursue data-driven, community-led solutions for improving the local environment.

Labor unions mobilize to challenge advance of algorithms in workplaces

“We cannot allow AI and technology to be our next NAFTA,” she said on an episode of the podcast “Power At Work” released Tuesday by the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University.

This sculpture at the UN is covered in more trash each day as nations work toward ending plastic pollution

Standing by the sculpture, Maria Ivanova, an expert in international environmental governance, said it “wakes you up.” Ivanova is the co-director of the Plastics Center at Northeastern University in Boston.

Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research

Today we talk to Elizabeth Mynatt, Dean of Computer Sciences at Northeastern, both about her own research in “human-centered computing,” and about the bigger-picture issues of why basic research is important, and why universities are such good places to do it.

How New England built the Plains

Caleb Gayle is a professor of journalism and Africana studies at Northeastern University. His latest book is “Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State.”

Tech firms, states look to rein in AI chatbots’ mental health advice

Northeastern University researchers found large language models can be harnessed to offer detailed instructions on how to commit suicide.

Nearly Two Months After OpenAI Was Warned, ChatGPT Is Still Giving Dangerous Tips on Suicide to People in Distress

To be clear, that’s not even close to the only outstanding mental health issue with ChatGPT. Another recent experiment, this one by AI ethicists at Northeastern University, systematically examined the leading LLM chatbots’ potential to exacerbate users’ thoughts of self-harm or suicidal intent.

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