Northeastern to award five honorary degrees at 2019 commencement
By Khalida Sarwari An accomplished entrepreneur, the president of Miami Dade College, a pioneering researcher in neurobiology, and a United States Army commander will receive …
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She wants to build a malaria-free world
By Khalida Sarwari At a boarding school in Hissar, India, where malaria was once common, Kritika Singh found herself frustrated. She was there to give …
She’s studying the experiences of disability in the early United States
By Khalida Sarwari In her first book, The Medical Imagination, Sari Altschuler uncovers a history of the imagination in medicine. Literature, she demonstrates, was an essential …
‘What happens on the molecular level to make us sick?’
By Khalida Sarwari Isaac Kresse was only 6 when he started investigating the existential questions that would put him on the path to dedicating his …
She studies school shootings, murder-suicides, and homicide trends
By Khalida Sarwari Emma Fridel’s research has uncovered that school shootings have been declining since the 1990s. She has also discovered that people who live …