A large-scale analysis of BItTorrent file-sharing of videogames has shown that the number of illicit digital copies is not as high as reported by industry trade organisations. Anders Drachen from the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University and the PLAIT Lab at Northeastern University as well as Robert Veitch from the Department of IT Management at […]

WBUR’s Martha Bebinger reports that starting this fall, Northeastern University will join a growing number of college campuses that are smoke-free, both inside and out. Northeastern Dean of Health Sciences Terry Fulmer says going smoke-free will save student’s lives. “If you smoke when you’re younger, you’re more likely to be addicted for life,” Fulmer said. […]

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 […]

It’s well known that Massachusetts fights above its weight when it comes to science. It rakes in more biomedical research funding per capita from the National Institutes of Health than any other state. A recent paper by Northeastern University scientists analyzed citations in scientific papers and found that Boston is the leading city in the production and […]

When Marine Corps heavy machine gunner Erik DeGiorgi returned to his native Plymouth in 2005, the South Shore town seemed nearly as foreign as the endless valleys his unit cleared in Afghanistan. “I had changed. I didn’t know how to even communicate with my friends and family here,” he said. “Our unit in Afghanistan, we […]

The economy is moving toward recovery, but summer job prospects for the state’s youngest workers are dismal. The number of teens with jobs in Massachusetts fell 28 percent between 1999 and 2012. This summer, only one in four teens between the ages of 16 and 19 is projected to find a job, according to a […]

Boston-based Northeastern University opened its Center City campus in January 2012 with eight masters programs. Now, the University is adding seven masters degrees and two doctoral degrees. The programs were approved two weeks ago by the UNC Board of Governors.

The philosopher Patricia Illingworth, the editor of “Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy,” said that “public giving is more desirable in many ways, because it really creates this culture of giving.” Only because it was public, Ms. Illingworth noted, did Bill Gates’s and Warren Buffett’s “giving pledge” inspire dozens of other extremely wealthy peers to pledge half their […]