The competitions at the 2018 Winter Olympics are underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea. A full schedule of televised events is available from NBC. The opening ceremony will be broadcast on Friday at 8 p.m. EST. From bobsledding to skiing to figure ice skating, Team USA is 244 people strong  — with 13 members hailing from Massachusetts. Here are the 13 from Massachusetts.

Caralyn Baxter, the head physical therapist for the US halfpipe ski team and a graduate of Northeastern, talks about making her Olympic dream a reality.

“There are some hospital systems that are fairly profitable, but many are not,” said Gary Young, director of center for health policy and healthcare research at Northeastern University. “A general principle is that about one-third have margins that are above zero… probably about one-third of hospitals are pretty close to zero, particularly when you talk […]

More than 200 students from Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Tufts University, Suffolk University and Wellesley College will gather on Saturday for Triple S Day.

Imagine being able to get fresh, locally grown produce here in New England all year round. It doesn’t sound feasible, but a local company created by two Northeastern University graduates has figured out a way to make that possible. Their company is called Freight Farms. They take discarded shipping containers and turn them into working farms.

As a newly minted lawyer in 1961. Michael Meltsner was hired by Thurgood Marshall and his soon-successor, Jack Greenberg, to join the legendary legal team at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He fast became a vital player in the national civil rights movement, helping to shape legal strategy, arguing major cases, and making multiple appearances […]

Article 48 in the state’s constitution bans ballot questions from taking powers away from the treasury by specifically allocating funds. The scope of ballot questions are also limited — they cannot connect two seemingly unrelated things under a single proposal. Daniel Medwed, WGBH’s legal analyst, says opponents of the Fair Share Amendment plan to argue that RaiseUp Massachusetts’ […]

The alt-weekly provided “deep coverage on an almost neighborhood level,” says Dan Kennedy, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston and a former media columnist at the now-defunct Boston Phoenix. They were “digging in much more than The Washington Post can do on a daily basis.”

Satchell Drakes and I discuss how they approach morality choices in games like The Walking Dead and talk to Dr. Casper Harteveld, an assistant professor of game design at Northeastern University, about using decision-making in games to expand the teaching of societal issues as well as use crowd-sourced player data to infer conclusions about human […]

“Starting with the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” says local media encyclopedia Dan Kennedy, of Northeastern University, “any meaningful restriction on the ownership of radio stations went out the window. So, you had massive corporate conglomerates buying up radio stations all over the country.” Which means that over the past two decades, Kennedy says, we’ve seen […]

Of all the good technological innovations that were supposedly going to rescue the news business from the bad technological innovations that had laid it low, perhaps none was more highly touted than Apple’s iPad.

Northeastern University professor David Choffnes offered a different approach to the technological question of monitoring net neutrality through bandwidth “throttling,” or, as he explained, the unequal distribution of bandwidth to users.