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With nearly $1 million on the line, these students had to think fast

Ingenuity and quick thinking helped a team of computer science students stave off a last-minute disqualification and win a competition held by the research arm…

by Khalida Sarwari January 17, 2019

The US may be giving up on the Paris accord on climate change, but these students aren’t

At a climate summit in Poland in December, a group of Northeastern students had an opportunity to observe negotiations on the rules to govern the…

by Khalida Sarwari January 15, 2019

What made this TED talk one of the most watched of 2018?

A talk by Northeastern psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett about how our brains control emotions amassed more than 3 million views last year.

by Khalida Sarwari January 15, 2019

Can data help make racial profiling by police a thing of the past?

Jack McDevitt, who directs the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern, is leading a study of police stops and searches in Douglas County, Kansas,…

by Khalida Sarwari January 7, 2019

From war zones to the classroom

Learning to outsmart the Taliban, enduring constant brushes with death, and handling machine guns? Piece of cake. But the thought of stepping into a classroom…

by Khalida Sarwari January 3, 2019

How Kim Kardashian, the Koch brothers, and Jared Kushner moved the needle on criminal justice reform

The First Step Act shows a bipartisan awakening about the need to decriminalize and decarcerate, says Northeastern criminal law scholar Daniel Medwed. The sweeping criminal…

by Khalida Sarwari December 20, 2018

The scribblings of John Adams might help build a better search engine

David Smith, an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and a founding member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks,…

by Khalida Sarwari December 20, 2018

This job has a high suicide rate. She wants to get to the bottom of the problem.

More correctional officers in Massachusetts take their own lives than anywhere else in the country. Northeastern professor Natasha Frost and her research partner Carlos Monteiro…

by Khalida Sarwari December 19, 2018

Here’s one way to make data tangible and exciting

When most of us hear “data,” we think of facts and figures confined to charts and reports. For Northeastern professor Dietmar Offenhuber, it’s not so…

by Khalida Sarwari December 18, 2018

How one student turned her academic struggles into a million-dollar business

Jessica Sun is a 19-year-old Northeastern sophomore who in 2015 co-founded Lumos Debate, a million-dollar education startup that teaches public speaking and debating to middle…

by Khalida Sarwari December 13, 2018

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