The ambitious project “was a bit far-fetched to a lot of people,” said Mohamed Khalifa al-Mubarak, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, and a Northeastern University graduate in economics and political science.

Today is election day, and there are a number of voting rights controversies being litigated right here in Massachusetts. These include challenges to the Commonwealth’s 20-day voter registration deadline law and Lowell’s “winner-take-all” system for local elections. WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed discussed these cases on WGBH’s Morning Edition.

In this changing landscape, colleges and universities that seek to meet corporate needs must move beyond monolithic programs and think in terms of competencies, unbundling curriculum, modularizing and “microlearning.” Many institutions are already pioneering efforts in this direction, from the certificate- and badge-oriented University of Learning Store (led by the Universities of Wisconsin, California, Washington […]

Northeastern law professor Andrea Matwyshyn argues why “hackback” legislation has lost sight of certain legal distinctions in the information and technology world.

The man who shot and killed dozens at a Texas church had been convicted of assaulting his wife and a child, and he may have been motivated by a “domestic situation,” say officials. The latest tragedy underscores a link between mass killings and domestic violence. John Yang talks with Deborah Epstein of the Georgetown Law […]

Sherman and her collaborator, Matthew Eckelman, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, wanted to put a number on the damage of healthcare emissions in a form familiar to healthcare professionals. Based on a series of calculations, they determined that the contribution to climate change by the institutions trying to protect your health […]

But focusing on death tolls may actually lead to more shooters, warned criminology professor James Alan Fox at Northeastern University. “It wouldn’t be any less serious and tragic if it weren’t the largest or the second-largest or the third-largest,” Fox said. “That doesn’t matter as far as the nature of the crime or how it […]

Today, democracy ends at the gate entrance. The government relinquished control of the airline industry to a handful of CEOs—and more important, to a handful of shareholders on Wall Street. We merely converted regulation by and for the public into regulation by plutocrats, who now rule the friendly skies in their own interest. The airline […]

Another argument for embracing your inner Scandinavian Cinderella? You may find yourself less stressed and more focused once you’re living in a clean, organized space. Having fewer things to worry about really can make life seem more manageable, from the practical chores you do on a day-to-day basis to the big projects and problems you […]

“With Zika, 80% of people are completely asymptomatic … We only see the tip of the iceberg with the people who have symptoms and go to the doctor,” said Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.

This time, researchers Professor Jack Levin and Professor Arnold Arluke, from Northeastern University in Boston, gave 240 participants one of four fake newspaper reports. The report, published in the journal Society & Animals, reveals that participants were asked to describe their emotions using standard questions to measure empathy.

The stringent response, the group’s new article hypothesizes, may also be what allows the Lyme pathogen to survive standard doses of medicine’s best antibiotics. Among the article’s nearly 200 citations is the work, since 2014, of scientists from Johns Hopkins, Northeastern and Tulane universities who have shown that doxycycline, amoxicillin and other common Lyme disease […]