Hazel Sive, the dean of the College of Science and professor of biology at Northeastern University, has edited “Xenopus: A Laboratory Manual,” a new textbook that presents “a comprehensive collection of experimental procedures for research using Xenopus,” according to the publisher’s webpage.

Welcome everyone!
I’m Hazel Sive, Dean of the Northeastern University College of Science and I’m thrilled to be here today!
What a wonderful occasion! What great happiness all round!
My warmest congratulations to each of you graduating.

Dean Hazel Sive has been recognized by EduRank.org as a notable graduate of Rockefeller University. Fellow alumni on the list include Nobel Prize laureates, faculty and staff from various universities, and distinguished researchers.

Research has found that women in STEM fields publish less, are paid less for their research, and do not progress as far as men in their careers. Despite progressive momentum toward gender equity, family decisions, financial considerations, workplace cultures and discrimination have shaped and continue to impact the careers of women scientists.

Northeastern University has appointed Hazel Sive as the new dean of the College of Science. An accomplished leader in the scientific community, Sive is also a passionate innovator in higher education. She comes to Northeastern from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she has held leadership roles within the institute’s research enterprise.

As a developmental biologist, I study how a single cell becomes a complete animal — how nature makes something from almost nothing. The growth of an embryo seems mysterious because new tissues and intricate body parts arise from what previously seemed to be an inert lump of cells. Like origami, layers of cells grow, flatten, and fold over themselves. Neurons are strung from one end of the undeveloped body to the other. A transparent heart is assembled and begins to beat even before it fills with blood.

What is the world’s most advanced engineering project? Find out in Professor Hazel Sive’s TEDxNortheasternU Talk.

Northeastern Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David Madigan and Zeblon Zenzele Vilakazi, vice chancellor of University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, have signed a memorandum of understanding expressing a mutual desire to work together and find areas of collaboration and opportunity.

Three Northeastern leaders have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science—a lifetime honor awarded to scholars for their exceptional contributions and leadership in their scientific fields.

The School of Science has announced that the recipients of the school’s 2019 Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education are Mehrdad Jazayeri and Hazel Sive. Nominated by peers and students, the faculty members chosen to receive these prizes are selected to acknowledge their exemplary efforts in teaching graduate and undergraduate students.

This claymation model shows how the Xenopus frog’s pre-mouth begins as a square, eight cells wide and high, and morphs into a two-cell wide by twenty tall column. As the larvae prepares to begin feeding, the two rows of cells unzip down the middle to surround the oral opening that connects the digestive system to the outside. The mouth and other “scheduled holes” must form at precisely the correct time and place, otherwise they would form catestrophic wounds.