Northeastern University announced Monday that its campus will go completely smoke-free beginning fall 2013 in an effort to improve campus-wide health, making it one of the first large Boston colleges to do so. The decision came after months of research, discussion, and polling done by a 10-person committee made up of both faculty and students, […]

The university formally announced Tuesday that it will be among the first colleges in the Boston area to implement a campus-wide ban on smoking. While other Greater Boston colleges ban smoking within so many feet of a building or just on their medical campuses, Northeastern’s new policy bans smoking on all campus grounds. “There’s a […]

Northeastern University plans to adopt a smoke-free policy for the upcoming fall semester, according to an e-mail sent today to the university community. Dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences Terry Fulmer wrote that last month, a committee comprised of students, faculty, and staff, proposed that the university adopt a smoke-free policy for the […]

In 1872, Charles Darwin published The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, a book that cataloged emotional expressions in humans and their link to the animal world. In the book, Darwin described more than 50 universal emotions. Now Facebook, with the help of a psychologist who studies emotions and a Pixar illustrator, has turned some […]

Micro apartments are rapidly becoming the favorite affordable housing solution for young professionals and moderate-income renters in high-cost, crowded cities like New York and San Francisco. But the reality of living in less than 400 square feet is seldom as charming as all those pictures of custom Swedish furniture suggest. The reality looks more like this: Your bed is also […]

With all the work happening in and around Roxbury’s Dudley Square, three Northeastern University students have created their own vision for a parcel in the neighborhood. Ryan Matthew, Mark Munroe, and Chris Marciano, all recent graduates of the university’s undergraduate architecture program, designed a series of buildings for the neighborhood that they think can provide […]