After three weeks of basketball bliss, Louisville and Michigan are suiting up for the Championship Game of the 2013 March Madness tournament tonight. Yet, as they’ve battled their way to the final round of the men’s NCAA tournament, students here in the Hub have been duking it out to see who’s out innovating whom in our accompanying Campus […]

Brian Helmuth is a professor in the Department of Marine and Environmental Science and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, and directs the university’s Sustainability Science and Policy Initiative. Climate change produces winners and losers, globally and locally, and science can help to predict which is which. Often the winners are […]

“The big story in Massachusetts in the last 10 years is the increase in the foreign-born population,” said Len Albright, an assistant professor of sociology and public policy at Northeastern University. Without immigrants, the state’s population would have fallen over the past decade, he said. Boston’s population in 1990 was about 20 percent foreign born; […]

“It’s taking them longer to go from oyster spat to oyster adult,” said Luke Dodd, a doctoral candidate at UNC who put the crabs in a tank with oysters. “When you’re a baby, there’s tons of predators that want to eat you up.” But when they put mud crabs and oysters together in the tanks […]

“It’s not the strongest of the species that survives,” Charles Darwin once observed, “but the one most responsive to change.” If only it were true in higher education. It’s interesting to observe, isn’t it, how much higher education is still driven by a “brute force” model of delivery? As much as we might wish it […]

Being first at anything is hard, but being first at college is a bewildering and sometimes terrifying experience. I work with a scholarship program at Northeastern University that funds students from underprivileged backgrounds; all are first-generation college attendees, most are from poor families, and with a few exceptions, either they or their parents are recent […]

Meditation doesn’t just make you a better person mentally and physically, but it could also make you a better person when it comes to compassion. A new study from Northeastern University and Harvard University researchers shows thatmeditation can improve compassion and do-gooder behavior. The new findings are published in the journal Psychological Science. For the study, researchers tested […]