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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, where black people have been jailed at a disproportionately high rate.

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 frightened Northeastern alumnus Philip McTigue like nothing he’d experienced in Iraq or Afghanistan.

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 justice reform bill, which garnered bipartisan support in both the Senate and House this week, is on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.

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, received an $82,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to extract information about readers from scanned texts.

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 are in the midst of a four-year probe into the well-being of officers at the Massachusetts Department of Correction.

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 abstract. When he sees data, his imagination takes him to a world that’s filled with all kinds of physical phenomena. Beyond percentages and statistics, he’s picturing tree rings and microplastics.

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 and high school students. Her work garnered her a placement on Forbes’ 2019 “30 Under 30” list.

by Khalida Sarwari December 13, 2018

Data security expert calls for stronger cybersecurity laws

Professor Woodrow Hartzog will testify at the Federal Trade Commission’s hearing on data security on Wednesday, where he plans to advocate for rules that understand security and privacy as related problems.

by Khalida Sarwari December 12, 2018

Here’s a college classroom where it’s nothing but fun and games

Kellian Adams Pletcher’s capstone game design course requires students to create digital games from concept to completion. The course is offered as part of a College of Arts, Media and Design program that merges computer science and game development.

by Khalida Sarwari December 11, 2018

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