The Boston Landmarks Orchestra opened its 2013 summer season at the DCR Hatch Shell Wednesday with its annual green concert in celebration of America’s city, state, and national parks. And the program for this “Rhapsody in Green” could hardly have been more enticing: the premiere of “At the River,” by Northeastern University music-department chair Anthony […]

By BEN COMPAINE Cambridge, Mass. This might have been a story about the little train that could. Rather, it’s about the big train that could not. Global Partners LP GLP +1.33% operates a bulk petroleum storage terminal north of Boston in Revere, on Massachusetts Bay. Global Partners has been bringing in its inventory by barge […]

A class of Northeastern University students traveling in South Africa met with Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu and a former cellmate of Nelson Mandela this week. The students said in a Skype interview today that both discussions centered on the anti-apartheid movement and Mandela’s legacy. Mandela, the former president of South Africa and leader of […]

Nearly a half-century ago, a psychologist named Paul Ekman set out to see if human beings, from Papua New Guinea to Pittsburgh, showed emotions in the same way. He went around the world, showing photographs of faces and asked people to identify the emotions shown: fear, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise. What he found, in short, […]

A collaborative effort among five communities to promote their shared Route 3 corridor is getting some encouragement from a well-known economist. Barry Bluestone, founding director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University and a key adviser to the Patrick administration, hailed the partnership that Bedford, Billerica, Burlington, Chelmsford, and Lowell are pursuing […]

Former Boston Judge Margaret Burnham, now a law professor at Northeastern University, was selected by Mandela to help South Africa transition to full democratic rule and says this day honors Mandela’s activism “All across the world, citizens of the world will be celebrating Mandela Day,” Burnham said. “It’s a day of service.” That’s in keeping […]

Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told MyFoxBoston.com that the cover could send a dangerous message to others who might be minded to carry out violence: “If they want to become famous, kill somebody.” Within hours, CVS announced that it would not sell the issue in its store. “As a company with deep roots in New England and […]

Android users who have “rooted” their smartphones can download the ReKey app to patch the so-called Master Key vulnerability, cybersecurity firm Duo Security announced this week. A research company recently discovered that Android apps could be maliciously tweaked without a user knowing. Such updates could allow a hacker to pull personal data and files off the phone. […]

Higher-education administrators are warming up to adaptivity, too. In a recent Inside Higher Ed/Gallup poll, 66 percent of college presidents said they found adaptive-learning and testing technologies promising. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched the Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program, which will issue 10$100,000 grants to U.S. colleges and universities to develop adaptive […]

The cover quickly drew a negative reaction on social media, with “Boycott Rolling Stone” becoming a trending Twitter topic in Boston. Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told MyFoxBoston.com that he feared the cover would simply add to the hype surrounding the case and send the wrong message to potentially disaffected people. “If they want to […]

More fixes are appearing for a pair of highly dangerous vulnerabilities exposed earlier this month in the Android mobile operating system. Security vendor Webroot and ReKey, a collaboration between Northeastern University in Boston and vendor Duo Security, released software on Tuesday that detects if an Android device is vulnerable and applies a patch. Google, which […]

8. Boston, Mass. A plethora of prestigious research universities, including Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are located in the Boston metro area, which also includes Cambridge and Quincy. Local innovations have nurtured a robust health-care industry. Northeastern University has a summer program supporting middle-school students in the sciences, and MIT has a program to encourage women to pursue STEM […]