Ask Baxter, a graduate of Northeastern University, about her duties as head physical therapist and she will quickly hit you with an, “Oh, my gosh,” and chase it with, “Everything,” before rattling off the list. During a competition, you can find Baxter at the top of the halfpipe doing any number of things: Handing out […]

The Federal Communication Commission’s controversial repeal of net neutrality last year has yet to go into effect, but a researcher at Northeastern University has built an app that detects when mobile carriers may be throttling traffic to apps like Netflix and YouTube. Dave Choffnes and his Ph.D. students built the app, called WeHe, last year […]

Dan Kennedy, journalism professor at Northeastern University and author of the Media Nation blog, said that the idea of a virtual newsroom “doesn’t sound like the worst thing (he’s) ever heard of.”

Urban rooming houses for single working men and women were once the norm in the United States. Boston, like many other US cities, long ago banned tiny apartments. But some housing experts, policy makers, and entrepreneurs are seeking to ease those rules to accommodate microunits and co-living systems. In a modern spin on communal housing, […]

Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe artificial intelligence will lead to a net loss of jobs, according to a study by Gallup and Northeastern University released Wednesday. The survey asked roughly 3,300 Americans from Sept. 15 to Oct. 10 about their opinions on artificial intelligence and its perceived impact on their lives. Although 73 percent of […]

The debate over who—the federal government, schools, employers—should provide training to workers is decades old. When it comes to workers’ preferences, 14 percent of laborers say the onus should be on colleges and universities, while 50 percent say it should be on the federal government and 61 percent look toward employers, according to a new report by […]

While school shootings are always alarming, James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University says schools are, by and large, safe. “They’ve been safe for a long time,” he says. “They remain safe.”