Posts by Adam Fischer

Does containing COVID-19 mean surrendering our privacy?

Public health officials are scrambling to rapidly ramp up contact tracing, which involves tracking down people who may have come in contact with someone who…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   May 20, 2020

‘Reinvent yourselves so that you can reinvent the world’

Our world may be different today, Class of 2020. But your achievements are timeless.

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   May 1, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has left hospitals short of masks. This family is rallying to help.

Northeastern student Hannah Rosenblatt and her family have turned their home into a veritable factory that churns out mask-making kits. Once the masks are assembled,…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   April 17, 2020

What hidden mysteries lie within the 15th-century Dragon Prayer Book?

When researchers unearthed a tiny, fragile prayer book hidden deep in Northeastern’s archives, they embarked on a journey to unlock its mysteries. Complex script, medieval…

• by Adam Fischer, Benjamin Bertsch and Cam Sleeper   February 20, 2020

‘This is a big deal’

How will the future be shaped? Will it be driven by artificial intelligence? Life sciences? Entrepreneurs? Civic leaders? Academia? Now, think about all of them…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   January 27, 2020

President Aoun & the Great Carry-on Caper

President Joseph E. Aoun traveled to London to treat NCH at Northeastern students to a Thanksgiving turkey. It seemed like a good idea at the…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   November 28, 2019

Of mice and women

Victorian-era stereotypes that were originally used to keep women out of leadership positions are still with us today, says Rebecca Shansky, an associate professor of…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   July 23, 2019

Relive the sights and sounds of Commencement in two minutes

If you couldn’t make it to the TD Garden in person, don’t worry. We have you covered.

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   May 3, 2019

It took a superhuman effort to get to the show

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun showed off some mad acrobatic skills in getting to TD Garden just in time to give his 2019 Commencement Speech.

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   May 3, 2019

Murder in Mobile: A documentary short film about race, murder, and one family’s search for the truth 70 years later

In 1948, in Mobile, Alabama, a black man named Rayfield Davis was beaten to death by a white man who was not prosecuted. The crime…

• by Adam Fischer and Benjamin Bertsch   January 28, 2019