Complex networks as dissimilar in size, age and character as the metabolic processes of a yeast cell, the World Wide Web, and the airline system of the United States all share a similar underlying structure, said Northeastern University Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi during an Oct. 26 talk, the first in the Distinguished Engineering and Science Speaker […]

Human beings are social animals. So there’€™s nothing new about the fact that we learn and grow through our interactions with others.

GOV. DEVAL PATRICK issued a press release in September announcing seven new appointees to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees. The release contained all the basics: their names, their previous work histories, and a canned statement from the governor saying, “€œThese board members all care deeply about the University of Massachusetts and will work […]

In 1736 the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler ended a debate among the citizens of Konigsberg, Prussia, by drawing a graph. The Pregel River divided the city, now Kaliningrad, Russia, into four sections. Seven bridges connected them. Could a person cross all seven without walking over the same one twice?

Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a virtual nurse and exercise coach that are surprisingly likable and effective—even if they’re not quite as affable as the medical hologram on Star Trek. In fact, patients who interacted with a virtual nurse named Elizabeth said they preferred the computer simulation to an actual doctor or nurse because […]

It is safe to say that few members of the math faculty get asked the kind of question that Peter M. Plourde did at the start of a recent algebra class here at Northeastern University.

To debate or not to debate? That is the question Rick Perry and his campaign staff wrestled with last week as the Texas governor floated the possibility of skipping the more-than-a-dozen remaining GOP presidential primary debates.

Northeastern University may soon be the newest name in higher education in Seattle.

There is now another option for students looking for a graduate degree. Northeastern University has opened its first regional campus, and it’s right in the center of uptown.

Northeastern University opened a graduate campus in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, the first step in a far-reaching plan to expand across the country, form research partnerships within cities, and take advantage of regional needs for specialized workers.

Northeastern University landed a long way from home Monday, trading chowder for sweet tea at its new uptown campus.

Northeastern University is going south and west: It plans to open a regional campus in Charlotte, N.C., today and a similar outpost in Seattle within the year, with hopes of eventually planting flags in Austin, Minneapolis, the Silicon Valley area, and beyond.