“Water is not just something that quenches thirst; it is the starting point of nourishment, connection and care. It’s the silent ingredient in every meal and every cup, and when we take its safety for granted, we put at risk the very people we aim to nourish,” says Dr. Darin Detwiler, LPD, an associate teaching professor at […]

Milan Design Week 2025 turned the city into a living gallery of human-centered innovation, where design met tradition, and technology was woven seamlessly into the fabric of everyday life, including Northeastern University’s “Our Energy Nexus,” which visualized real-time air pollution data, with visitors’ interactions symbolically contributing to environmental change. 

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “I will say that the tariffs COULD have an effect on the de-dollarization, but not very likely. Half the US dollars printed are in the U.S.—the other half are around the world to hedge against inflation.”

“There are many communities, cities and localities that are now considering the ways in which governmental entities contributed to these harms,” Margaret Burnham, CRRJ’s director and a law professor at Northeastern, said.

Daniel Aldrich, now a professor of politics and public policy at Northeastern University,  lives in Brighton with his wife and four children. But he’s always felt the pull of Tokyo — so much so that he’s returned for research and fellowships, spending a total of six years living in the city.

Polio is not nearly as contagious as the measles, but it is still important to maintain high vaccination rates, says Neil Maniar, a public-health researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “If we start to see a consistent decline around the world in polio vaccination rates, all it takes is a couple of outbreaks for […]

According to Jay Aslam, the head of AI at Northeastern, the university has already been working with faculty to understand the best ways to use AI in education. Aslam said the university wanted a “true partnership” to help transform higher education instead of a traditional vendor deal. Aslam said he hopes establishing the partnership will […]

“Part of our mission as a university is to really rethink how it is that we do both teaching and learning in the presence of AI,” Javed Aslam, chief of AI at Northeastern, tells Axios. “It’s really on both those fronts.”

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “It seems to me that a reasonable person looking around the world from the United States saying, ‘we’re besieged with unfair trade practices,’ the first thing that they would do, the first thought that should have come into their head is let’s sit down and renegotiate.”

Rana Foroohar highlights how universities should be a conduit for paid work experiences that fully connect what students are learning with jobs in a way that supports development of real world skills for students and creates a pool of less expensive labour for companies — something that has turned schools like Northeastern in Boston into […]

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek it may take years for companies to adjust and increase their domestic output, but prices could go up fairly quickly.

Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said part of the fascination with Read and others like Casey Anthony or Amanda Knox comes from the relative rarity of a woman facing murder charges.