Believe it or not, the experts say this idea might actually work. Professor Stephanie Pollack, of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, says that while we often vaguely discuss fixing the MBTA in the future, tying the project to the Olympics would focus our attention. “If you’re going to host […]

Microsoft’s open designs included in patent applications? In mid-December, a Microsoft patent application for a blade server design surfaced, showing a design similar to the specs released to the OCP. The patent has yet to be granted. When asked whether that patent is the same design it offered to the open community this week, Microsoft said it […]

It is about time that we take a calmer approach to short-term fluctuations in crime figures, especially when they are based on a narrow time span. It is surely important for the Globe’s readers (as well as non-readers living or working in the city) to be informed of the sudden spike in murders since the beginning of […]

“We do not expect income inequality stabilizing or declining in the absence of real wage growth or a significant reduction in unemployment and underemployment problems,” said Ishwar Khatiwada, an economist for the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University who reviewed the Labor and Commerce departments’ wage data.  

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“One of the things that is happening a lot lately, in terms of development of new tools for analyzing and visualizing Big Data, is having to take that data and translate it into something different,” said Alessandra Renzi, assistant professor in emergent media at Northeastern University. “Twitter is one of those spaces where the data […]

The white “ghost bike” at Huntington Avenue and Forsyth Street haunted Amir Farjadian and Qingchao Kong each time they rode past it on their way to Northeastern University. It had been left there in June 2012 in memory of Kelsey Rennebohm, a Boston College graduate student and fellow bicyclist who died after a collision with […]

Not much went Northeastern’s way in the first two months of the 2013-14 men’s basketball season. Losing both leading scorer Joel Smith (16.1 PPG) and leading assist man Jonathan Lee (4.0 APG) to graduation after last season, Bill Coen knew there might be some bumpy spots for his Huskies. But no one expected them to […]

Most theories of group formation argue that people cluster together based on pre-existing similarities—shared ethnicity or beliefs or a favorite team. “If you asked the average person on the street or even many psychologists to pick one thing that could explain how groups form,” says Lisa Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University in Boston who […]

Senior projects by two teams of civil engineering students at Northeastern University could help the town find creative responses to traffic woes on Route 106. “It’s a great opportunity for both the town and the students. We think it’s an excellent way to get input from some great young minds,” Town Manager William R. Ross […]

In late December, I had the chance to visit with one of the newest Indian Institutes of Technology – in Gandhinagar, in the state of Gujarat, India.   This latest addition to the IIT franchise was launched four years ago, along with several other IIT campuses, by the Government of India as part of its ambitious goal to […]

Northeastern University in Seattle, Wash., is attempting to help middle school girls get into science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through a venture called the GAMES initiative, GeekWire reports. GAMES Initiative is a partnership with Northeastern, Institute of Systems Biology and the National Girls Collaborative Project to help launch three free video games intended to help girls […]