Computer-science majors at Northeastern University are required to take an improv and theater course before they graduate. The class is a way to “robot-proof” the students, helping them sharpen uniquely human skills such as creativity and teamwork, said Joseph E. Aoun, the university president.

Facebook is just the most visible ad network, said David Choffnes, a computer science professor at Northeastern University who studies apps and privacy.

According to Northeastern University professor James Alan Fox, roughly half of all mass shootings in this country are “extreme incidents of domestic violence.”

Alfred Brownell is the recipient of the 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize and founder of Green Advocates an NGO and academic at Northeastern University School of Law.

On BIV Today… Northeastern University president and Robot-Proof author Joseph Aoun (1:31) joins the BIV Today podcast to discuss what it takes to prepare people for a changing workforce transformed by smart machines.

Water management will be a major problem in agriculture, said Laura Kuhl of Northeastern University. She said simple tech, like drip irrigation, needs to spread to more small farmers in developing countries. The high-tech part comes in to help decide when to irrigate.

But there’s a downside to this endless buffet of presidential contenders: It’s called “option paralysis,” said Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University. The risk is “that voters will have so many options available to them, they will effectively become frustrated, tired, and confused and possibly opt out of voting all together.”

To get some clarity on this, I reached out to 11 constitutional experts and asked them to step back from the latest Trump outrage and answer a more fundamental question: How do you define a constitutional crisis? Jessica Silbey, law professor, Northeastern University The federal government divides power among the legislature, the executive, and the […]

“What this suggests to me is that the benefits are pretty limited, to cognitive tasks similar to those in the brain training program, and don’t appear to generalize to tasks closer to what we experience in the real world,” said psychologist Art Kramer of Northeastern University, who was not involved in the study. “However, this […]

To get to launch, women have to overcome a higher hurdle than men even though they tend to perform better, according to a 2015 study by Northeastern University.

In new research, Kevin H. Wozniak, Brian R. Calfano, and Kevin M. Drakulich primed survey respondents with different images relating to policing. They find that that whites exposed to such images were more likely to state their preferred candidate, with more Independent whites revealing a preference for Trump when shown stop and frisk imagery. These results indicate, they write, […]

There are now more than 20 official Democratic candidates in the 2020 race to challenge President Donald Trump. Several of them are prominent women who are currently serving in the U.S. Senate. But a recent media review put together by Northeastern University has determined that those female candidates have received more negative coverage than their male opponents.