Kamran Dadkhah, an associate professor at Northeastern University who has studied the Iranian economy, said Iran’s oil industry has been left behind as technology has improved because there’s been no real investment in Iran’s oil fields in decades. For instance, he said, the lack of investment means Iran’s oil wells aren’t well maintained. “If the […]

While it may sound odd to leave such large sums of money to animals rather than relatives, our love of critters has evolutionary roots. When scientists at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California Los Angeles measured brain activity of people shown photos of animals — whether cute or dangerous — their amygdala, the […]

The Red Sox winning the World Series wasn’t the only drama unfolding at Fenway Park this fall: Owner John Henry has been fighting to avoid testifying in a high-stakes class-action lawsuit against his fellow baseball owners. The suit takes aim at Major League Baseball’s decades-old blackout policy, which requires fans living in cities without a […]

Over the last three days, Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education has been focusing on three fundamental words: educate, incubate and launch. The University has been celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week, highlighting an inventive spirit largely unparalleled by other institutions, as proven by IDEA’s Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo held Wednesday night. “NEXPO was the perfect end to Global […]

ntroduction: Many elderly and disabled Americans may face extended hospital stays or long term care in nursing homes. But, many could be receiving high quality care that keeps them healthier, longer in their own homes. Alice Bonner, of Northeastern University, and Robert J. Master, of the Commonwealth Care Alliance, look at how the long-term care landscape […]

Ever wonder about the staying power of majors? Ben Schmidt Ph.D., assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, compiled data on the trends of majors over the past several decades. While engineering holds steady, business and life sciences degrees have shot upward along with psychology while English, education and literature are on the decline.

At Northeastern University, international students who opt out of traveling abroad, or who haven’t experienced an American Thanksgiving, can celebrate early this year on November 26 at the Curry Student Center Ballroom. A meal will be provided by the International Student and Scholar Institute (ISSI), and will feature a lecture about the holiday as students […]

The concept is detailed in a 2009 research paper by Peter Furth, civil engineering professor and bike infrastructure expert at Northeastern University, who first came up with the idea. The street markings, he wrote, can help provide the “feel” of a bike lane — even if there’s no room for one. “It is a design […]

President Lincoln’s effort to reunite a nation torn in half by the long, bloody Civil War is considered one of the greatest speeches in American history. But Lincoln wasn’t even the keynote speaker that day at Gettysburg. That honor belonged to Edward Everett of Boston. He was a former Congressman, Senator, Governor of Massachusetts and […]

At the beginning of the fall semester, students dove into the Husky Startup Challenge with an idea. Fueled by a relentless entrepreneurial energy, however, the participating pool transformed their ideas into 19 different ventures — all of which were put on display at Northeastern Tuesday night. “The amount of things I’ve seen today that didn’t exist at […]

Northeastern University student volunteers will help teach low-income Boston families how to get online and navigate the Internet, officials announced Tuesday. Through Internet Essentials, a national program run by Comcast, low-income families can qualify for broadband Internet service at a reduced rate of $9.95 per month, plus tax, along with the option to purchase an Internet-ready […]

“The jury, given the evidence presented and looking only at that incident as opposed to other behaviors of his, came to the right verdict,” says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. “The rest of us have the benefit now of hindsight and foresight surrounding the trial. [But] we are not bound […]