For a festival preview event on Sept. 29, BAAFF will screen the East Coast premiere of “The Oath of the Sword” (1914), one of the earliest known Asian American film productions. Held at Northeastern University’s Blackman Auditorium, a panel discussion will follow.

Tom Williams asks whether the prestige gap and bureaucratic excess will always limit the scope for innovation, in England and elsewhere.

William Fowler, a retired Northeastern University history professor and past president of the Massachusetts Historical Society, said Faneuil’s name should not be sacrosanct.

By Max Abrahms, Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University.

“Law enforcement has been spreading misinformation about fentanyl for several years,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “That same situation is being repeated now with animals.”

For over a decade, the UK government has urged ‘challenger’ institutions to shake up the higher education status quo. But there is scant evidence of success.

Northeastern University Associate Professor Sam Munoz won a grant to study what he sees as a weak link in anticipating local flooding.

By David DeSteno. Dr. DeSteno is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the host of the podcast “How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality.”

Alexander DePaoli, an associate teaching professor of marketing at Northeastern University, added that people may put themselves through discomfort and share it online for a sense of “in-group belonging,” similar to offline challenges as a game of truth or dare.

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Mehrdad Sasani, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, about construction concerns in Morocco’s earthquake zone.