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Rebecca Love speaking in front of professional video camera

From bedside nurse to senior executive, how this Northeastern graduate ‘changed the world’

by Beth Treffeisen

Cherokee writing on parchment paper

To save Cherokee language, a digital tool shares tales of Standing Rock and Big Snake with the next generation

by Cody Mello-Klein

Sylvia Rivera posing on a street next to New York's Union Square Park

Inside look at the lives of two transgender icons in a new Northeastern digital collection

by Alena Kuzub

climate change refugees

As climate change accelerates refugee crisis, experts stress the need for a shift in social attitudes, global cooperation

by Alena Kuzub

A woman pastor speaks at Southern Baptist Church.

The Southern Baptist Convention is trying to prevent women from being pastors. What does that mean for religion in America?

by Cody Mello-Klein

Elizabeth Holmes leaving court

Why do we believe compulsive liars? What makes them tick?

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert

Ted Landsmark holding photograph The Soiling of Old Glory

Nearly 50 years later, famous photo is a ‘teaching tool,’ not just an ‘artifact of America’s past’

by Cyrus Moulton

A person lounging in an inflatable pool on the screen

Racial diversity in TV commercials can backfire if not seen as genuine, new study finds

by Alena Kuzub

Will Snapchat’s creator program win over influencers in the ever-changing social media landscape?

by Beth Treffeisen

a depiction of an alien and extraterrestrial life

New NASA panel is studying UFOs, but will the US government ever tell us everything it knows?

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert

Are fairy tales fair? AI helps find gender bias in children’s storybooks

by Cody Mello-Klein

silhouette of a person walking

Are liberals truly more depressed than conservatives?

by Tanner Stening