Hillary Chute, distinguished professor of English and art and design at Northeastern University, packs a pen and paper, as well as anything she can amuse yourself with. Chute is the author of the book Why Comics? Mertan carries sunscreen, as some of the lines snake outside, and the San Diego sun can be unforgiving. Violet Krueger, who […]

In January, with the help of Northeastern’s lawyers, Dabbagh obtained a student visa and came to Boston. Since then, she’s avoided returning to Aleppo to visit her family.

In February a Northeastern University/Gallup survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults showed 48 percent of Americans support universal basic income.

Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, explained to Gizmodo last year the real dangers of biometric convenience in a world where databreaches are common.

Judge Kavanaugh has written two dissenting opinions in the legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act while serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In both cases, he refrained from making broad pronouncements about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, said Wendy Parmet, a professor of health […]

For students at Boston’s Northeastern University, Amazon’s virtual assistant is much more than a helper around the house — she’s also lending a hand in college. While she likely won’t help anyone ace an organic chemistry test, she can help busy students keep track of other important information, like their class schedule, tuition due dates, and […]

Students at Northeastern University in Boston are getting a little help from a familiar voice: Amazon’s Alexa.

Martha F. Davis, associate dean for experiential education and professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, discusses the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court Justice.

Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School, and Ravi Ramamurti, University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, discuss their new book, REVERSE INNOVATION IN HEALTHCARE, on how India can be the blueprint for healthcare in the US. Dan Hanson, UK Economist for Bloomberg Economics, on how Brexit is impacting the UK economy and how […]

“The law-made-me-do-it” narrative is being recycled from 1940’s Nazi Europe to explain Trump administration policy, writes Laurel Leff, Associate Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University.

Putting the business needs of technology giants over our own privacy creates a grave risk to our democracy, writes Northeastern Law professor Woodrow Hartzog.

Even at the most practical level, we fall short, sometimes laughably so, as Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University, has found.