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.

Review sites like Glassdoor and Yelp offer tips on how to write negative reviews in ways that avoid defamation claims and provide guidance on what to do if you get sued over a review. “I would not take the lesson that users cannot say anything they want to say,” said Joseph Reagle, a professor at Northeastern University who studies […]

In James Monaghan’s lab at Northeastern University in Boston, Johanna Farkas, a postdoc, handed me a pair of what looked like sunglasses. We were facing shelves lined with dozens of axolotl tanks; the lab keeps about 400 or 500 animals. (“There might be more in this room than there are in the wild now,” Farkas said.) The […]

“I see a lot that intersects pretty directly with the work he’ll be doing as part of his new venture,” said Dan Kennedy, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University. In addition to health care costs, Kennedy noted that Gawande has written about President Trump’s attempts to do away with the ACA, unnecessary medical […]

The Northeastern University team found apps that either directly or through recycled code from third-party libraries had uploaded images or had recorded images and videos of screen use, without users’ knowledge.

Vijay Govindarajan, a Dartmouth College professor who focuses on innovation, and Ravi Ramamurti, the director at the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University, contend the U.S. could slash its $3.3 trillion annual health-care tab by 30% to 40% over the next decade without making us sicker and without rationing care.

“This sends a strong message to people that using technology to bully people into committing suicide will not be tolerated,” Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, told the Times.