Earthtunes, as explained in our website (https://sites.northwestern.edu/earthtunes/), is a mobile application that helps you listen to normally inaudible sounds within the Earth beneath us. These sounds are caused by seismic waves and are so low in frequency that our ears do not hear them. Most of these seismic waves are weak and continuously generated by a range of environmental sources. Some of these seismic waves are strong and caused by earthquakes. The development of the Earthtunes app started about four years ago, what will the next version bring?
American Heart Association Fellowship
The American Heart Association (AHA) funds basic, clinical, behavioral, translational and population research, bioengineering/ biotechnology and public health problems broadly related to fulfilling our mission to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. AHA awards are open to the array of academic and health professionals. This ...
Congratulations to June Lee on winning the lightning talk competition at @Northwestern Computational Research Day!
Several students from our lab participated this week in the Northwestern Computational Research Day, where they presented some of the interdisciplinary research currently being done here. PhD candidate Hyojun (June) Ada Lee won the lightning talk competition with her presentation on the use of a smartphone app to improve quality ...
Open positions for PhD and postdocs, join us!
The Amaral Lab invites applications of candidates for PhD and postdocs for 2019-2020. The new hires will join an active, collaborative, and supportive group of young (and not so young) researchers. We are looking for enthusiastic, collaborative individuals with strong skills in Python and statistics, interested in participating in projects ...
Shootings in U.S. schools are linked to increased unemployment
By Megan Fellman EVANSTON – A rigorous Northwestern University study of a quarter-century of data has found that economic insecurity is related to the rate of gun violence at K-12 and postsecondary schools in the United States. When it becomes more difficult for people coming out of school to find ...
New paper out in G3:Genes|Genomes|Genetics!
The recent work of Chuyue Yang, a talent undergraduate (now recently graduated!), and graduate student Adam Hockenberry is now online. This work is a part of a multi-year collaboration with Professor Michael Jewett investigating the mechanisms by which the sequence of messenger-RNA can influence its translation. In this particular work, ...
How much was the Japanese Imperial Palace worth?
With the Japanese Emperor attempting to abdicate the throne this week, it is a good time to reflect on the significance of the event. While not odd historically (the Emperors in Heian Era resigned fairly often), this is the first resignation in the modern era. Whether he will actually be ...
Unintended effects of data privacy in healthcare
I would like to draw attention to an instance where I believe the pendulum has swung too far: the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
The foreCite Index
Check out the foreCite Index, a new bibliometric indicator built from a rigorous framework of the statistics of citations.
Alumnus elected Early Career Fellow of Ecological Society of America
Professor Daniel Stouffer, currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Canterbury (NZ), was one of nine new Early Career Fellows elected by the Ecological Society of America (ESA). ESA designates as Early Career Fellows of the Society certain early career members (typically chosen ...
Adam Hockenberry awarded Presidential Fellowship
Adam Hockenberry, a graduate student in IBiS jointly advised by Mike Jewett and Luís Amaral has been awarded a Presidential Fellowship. The Presidential Fellowship is funded by the President of the University and awarded by The Graduate School. This highly competitive award is the most prestigious fellowship awarded by Northwestern ...
Building trustworthy Big Data algorithms
By Emily Ayshford Much of our reams of data sit in large databases of unstructured text. Finding insights among emails, text documents, and websites is extremely difficult unless we can search, characterize, and classify their text data in a meaningful way. One of the leading big data algorithms for finding ...
'Friending' your way thin
By Erin White EVANSTON, Ill. —- If you want to lose pounds using an online weight management program, don’t be a wallflower. A new Northwestern University study shows that online dieters with high social embeddedness — who logged in regularly, recorded their weigh-ins and ‘friended’ other members — lost more ...
Max Wasserman awarded Ph.D.
On Tuesday, December 10th, 2014 Max Wasserman successfully defended his PhD thesis. He studies networks contained within the Internet Movie Database.
Persuading doctors to quickly adopt new treatments
By Marla Paul CHICAGO —- Doctors are more likely to try a new therapy when they are persuaded to do so by an influential colleague, reports a new Northwestern University study whose findings on adopting innovations also have relevance for business, education and research. The authors have used the new ...
Daniel Stouffer receives University of Canterbury’s Early and Emerging Career Researcher Award
Two University of Canterbury (UC) academics have been named the inaugural recipients of the University of Canterbury ’s Early and Emerging Career Researcher Award. Dr Brendon Bradley (Civil and Natural Resources Engineering) and Dr. Daniel Stouffer (Biological Sciences), an alumnus of the Amaral Lab, received the award for their outstanding ...
Big data study provides first insights into behavior of users of peer-to-peer file sharing
OCT 8, 2014 // Megan Fellman Peer-to-peer file sharing of movies, television shows, music, books and other files over the Internet has grown rapidly worldwide as an alternative approach for people to get the digital content they want — often illicitly. But, unlike the users of Amazon, Netflix and other ...