Barry Bluestone, a professor emeritus at Northeastern University, proposes one such strategy: build more housing for the thousands of students who compete for dwellings each year.

Local experts explain peace talks, including Ukraine’s offer of neutrality, the possibility of a split Ukraine and the country’s admittance to the EU on NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine War Q&A.”

Mills was participating in “A Conversation about the Maine Economy,” part of the Roux Institute at Northeastern University’s Signature Speaker Series. In an auditorium at the institute’s campus at 100 Fore Street, she answered questions from Mary Ludden, senior vice provost and senior vice chancellor at Northeastern University. About 100 people attended.

A Northeastern University study revealed more than 5 million adults became first-time gun owners between January 2020 and April 2021, compared to 2.4 million adults in 2019.

Responding to emotional cues is common in the animal kingdom, too. “There are multiple studies of non-human animals showing that they respond to environmental cues we are not perceiving (at least not consciously), for example by increasing their levels of stress hormones before storms, or reacting to earthquakes or tidal waves,” Brian Hellmuth, professor of environmental […]

More than $200 million has been invested in Roux since the institute, a research and education arm of Northeastern University in Boston, launched two years ago. The initial funding was a $100 million investment from technology entrepreneur and Lewiston native David Roux and his wife, Barbara, who set out to create a regional “innovation hub” focused on technology and life sciences.

Many of the most prominent Boston journalists of generations past gathered Tuesday to celebrate former Boston Globe editor Tom Winship and his legacy of breaking down barriers in newsrooms as Northeastern University announced a journalism scholarship in Winship’s name intended to increase diversity in the industry. Winship led the Globe from 1965 to 1984, through […]

Serena Parekh, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said the way Western nations have offered to help Ukrainians is exactly how refugees should be treated. But she also said it’s difficult to overlook the discrepancies compared to how other people are treated, especially in countries that have used aggressive “pushback” policies to stop certain […]

Cooking hot dogs on the boardwalk may not do much for an academic resume, but it does build lifelong skills like self-discipline and time management. Moreover, according to a Northeastern University study, low-income high-schoolers who work are more likely to graduate.

Wendy E. Parmet is Matthews University Distinguished Professor of Law and a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University.

“Whatever the explanation is, it’s unsatisfactory,” Brook Baker, an access to medicines specialist at Northeastern University, said in response to AP‘s reporting Thursday. “The bottom line is that there are still a lot of unvaccinated people in poor countries and once again, they are at the back of the line.”

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University who has championed the idea that emotion is culturally constructed, recently wrote that “genes and environment are ​so deeply entwined … that it’s fundamentally unhelpful to call them separate names like ‘nature’ and ‘nurture.'”