Mark Herz spoke with mental performance coach and Northeastern University lecturer, Grayson Kimball, who’s been running marathons on and off for the last 25 years. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.

The writer holds a doctoral degree in mass communications and is an associate professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University.

Brooke Foucault Welles, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University who has studied “hashtag activism,” said online campaigns and slogans can frame the public’s thinking about divisive topics, noting that #SendBarron seems to be an attempt by some to call attention to “the class tensions around wars and the military.”

Etai Mizrav, a professor of education policy at Northeastern University, said the systemwide decline “tells us that families across the District, not just in one neighborhood or one type of school, are making different choices about public education than they were a year ago.”

The former “Lizzie McGuire” star will deliver what dreams are made of at Northeastern University’s commencement on April 29.

“Even though they’re not seeing the Earth from space or from this sort of panoramic perspective, they’re getting a unique immersive experience that can shift them out of their normal, habitual ways of viewing the world,” says the study’s lead author Kristen Kilgallen, who researches psychology at Northeastern University.

Scientists are zeroing in on wastewater surveillance of airplanes as a critical tool to quickly detect the global spread of emerging pathogens. To learn more about what a monitoring system would look like, The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler went to Logan International Airport in Boston to speak with Alessandro Vespignani, a professor at Northeastern University […]

Silicon sampling supercharges the trend by introducing biases of the AI models themselves. In a 2025 paper, researchers from Northeastern University found that silicon sampling are “generally not reliable substitutes for human respondents, especially in policy settings.”

David Choffnes, a professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, wanted to test whether your smartphone is spying on you. “We did a study with thousands of apps on an Android device, and wanted to see, as you interact with these apps, are they recording your audio and sending it off?

“While consumers expect convenience and safety, the reality is that prewashed bagged greens remain one of the riskiest items in the grocery store due to contamination risks throughout the supply chain,” says Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of “Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.” 

“Reheating reduces risk, but it doesn’t erase it,” Darin Detwiler, PhD, a food safety expert and associate teaching professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, said.

Op-ed by Tiffany Joseph, an associate professor of sociology and international affairs at Northeastern University.