A longtime resident of Windham and current student at Northeastern University has started a website built entirely around the concept of motivation. Sahil Maripuri, who has lived in town for virtually his whole life, recently began PromoteHustle.com.

Dyslexia may be rooted in a problem the brain has in teasing out distinct sounds from the incoming garble, researchers say. Considered a learning disability, dyslexia makes it difficult to read and spell for the estimated 15 percent of Americans who have it. Although dyslexia causes reading problems, the disorder is often linked to subtle […]

Sure, you have the power to get your message out there–but what if it could be even stronger and more impactful? It can, and as I learned at this year’s annual Millennium Campus Conference, it’s not hard and it makes a huge difference.  

Criminologist Nicole Rafter has tallied 77 genocides that occurred around the world during the 20th century, many of them overlooked or forgotten, and she argues the number would be higher if a rigid legal definition was expanded.  

New research has argued that dyslexia may result from impairment of a different linguistic system than previously thought. Speech perception engages at least two linguistic systems: the phonetic system, which extracts discrete sound units from acoustic input, and the phonological system, which combines these units to form individual words. Previously, researchers generally believed that dyslexia […]

Tonight’s first televised debate in the Bay State’s U.S. Senate race may be between U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren — but GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney could be the one who steals the show, according to pundits and party operatives. “Mitt Romney is going to be looming large,” said Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern […]

Northeastern University’s athletics director, Peter Roby, has been named to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball committee, the NCAA announced Wednesday.

Timothy Bickmore, associate professor at Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science, has been working for the past decade in the area of “relational agents.” He says these artificially intelligent avatars are poised for a promising future in healthcare.

MIT’s Nexi robot has been teaching us about social interaction for years, and has even done a stint with the US Navy. Its latest role, however, involved studying those moments when society falls apart. Northeastern University researchers made Nexi the key ingredient of an experiment where subjects were asked to play a Prisoner’s Dilemma-style game […]