The latest addition to Northeastern’s curriculum: AI. You read that right. The local university is one of three U.S. schools to incorporate Claude, an AI tool similar to Chat GPT, into its curriculum by giving access to all students, faculty, and staff. 

Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek on Wednesday the requirement would “make it more difficult for anyone who has to incur greater costs to register to vote.”

“We’re finally seeing smart investments bear fruit, and then suddenly eliminating what works is going to have very sinister consequences for progress on overdose prevention,” said Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston.

An op-ed written by Nada Sanders and Paula Caligiuri – distinguished professors at Northeastern University D’Amore-McKim School of Business in, respectively, supply chain management and international business and strategy.

“Water is not just something that quenches thirst; it is the starting point of nourishment, connection and care. It’s the silent ingredient in every meal and every cup, and when we take its safety for granted, we put at risk the very people we aim to nourish,” says Dr. Darin Detwiler, LPD, an associate teaching professor at […]

Milan Design Week 2025 turned the city into a living gallery of human-centered innovation, where design met tradition, and technology was woven seamlessly into the fabric of everyday life, including Northeastern University’s “Our Energy Nexus,” which visualized real-time air pollution data, with visitors’ interactions symbolically contributing to environmental change. 

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “I will say that the tariffs COULD have an effect on the de-dollarization, but not very likely. Half the US dollars printed are in the U.S.—the other half are around the world to hedge against inflation.”

“There are many communities, cities and localities that are now considering the ways in which governmental entities contributed to these harms,” Margaret Burnham, CRRJ’s director and a law professor at Northeastern, said.

Daniel Aldrich, now a professor of politics and public policy at Northeastern University,  lives in Brighton with his wife and four children. But he’s always felt the pull of Tokyo — so much so that he’s returned for research and fellowships, spending a total of six years living in the city.

Polio is not nearly as contagious as the measles, but it is still important to maintain high vaccination rates, says Neil Maniar, a public-health researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “If we start to see a consistent decline around the world in polio vaccination rates, all it takes is a couple of outbreaks for […]

According to Jay Aslam, the head of AI at Northeastern, the university has already been working with faculty to understand the best ways to use AI in education. Aslam said the university wanted a “true partnership” to help transform higher education instead of a traditional vendor deal. Aslam said he hopes establishing the partnership will […]

“Part of our mission as a university is to really rethink how it is that we do both teaching and learning in the presence of AI,” Javed Aslam, chief of AI at Northeastern, tells Axios. “It’s really on both those fronts.”