Now a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, Swire-Thompson has done work for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on how fact-checking changes people’s minds about certain issues — but not their votes. She’s also researched how one’s familiarity with misinformation affects their receptivity to corrections.

Impact Investing and Social Finance, Sara Minard, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.

Daniel S. Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law, said the decision “gives a little bit of guidance in an area that’s very gray.” It says that there are circumstances in which university officials should take action, and it outlines broadly what that action should be.

“Maybe as a child [you] really weren’t able to protect them or say anything to be helpful, but now as an adult, there’s another chance to go back to some of those moments and maybe correct some of the pain,” added Dr. Laurie Kramer, professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University.

More than 4,000 Northeastern University students received diplomas Friday, along with a message urging them to embrace curiosity and daydreaming delivered by Paralympic athlete and actress Aimee Mullins. Mullins, 41, encouraged graduates to maintain their wonder and always seek out new things. The double amputee was born without fibular bones in both legs and has […]

Ironically, Kominsky-Crumb’s publisher has decided to make this volume as portentous as possible. The introduction is by Hillary Chute, author of several books about comics and a professor at Northeastern University. Even Chute feels she’s got to bring in the big guns to make a case for Kominsky-Crumb’s place in comics history. “An art critic […]

Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business is going even further, overhauling its curriculum to, in part, weave issues facing working women into the fabric of its coursework, said dean Raj Echambadi. The school will take a two-pronged approach: teaching would-be leaders how to deal with sexual harassment while training future workers how to conduct themselves […]

Part of that effort involved a partnership with Northeastern University’s NExT — Network of Experiential Learning Teachers — program, which connects educators from innovative schools across the nation to collaborate and share best practices. The university has long practiced what it preaches, with its college students participating in learning projects around the globe.

“One of the problems when someone can’t tell you they’re distressed is these behaviors feel like they come completely out of the blue,” said Matthew Goodwin, a behavioral scientist at Northeastern University. “It’s about quality of life.”

With the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the nation’s first monument dedicated to the legacy of those terrorized by lynchings, I am haunted by the old saying, “the exception proves the rule.” In this case, the Montgomery, Alabama, memorial presents well over 4,000 exceptions to the rule of law, and equality before […]

But at a recent hearing held by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, Richard Freeland, a former state higher education commissioner and president emeritus of Northeastern University, warned the Mount Ida acquisition will lead to the “cannibalization”of enrollment at UMass Boston.

“The faster your pipes, the more you can stimulate newer kinds of applications,” including self-driving technology, said Kaushik Chowdhury, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University.