“We always used to think for historians working 100 years from now: We need to preserve the bits (the files) and emulate the computing environment to show what people saw a hundred years ago,” said Dan Cohen, a professor at Northeastern University and the former head of the Digital Public Library of America. “Save the […]

The highest court in Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court, holds oral arguments in appellate cases during the first week of each month from September to May. WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern University Law Professor Daniel Medwed spoke to WGBH’s Morning Edition about the SJC’s major opinions in November, as well as key oral arguments on […]

In Michael Dukakis, many see a progressive hero. Others see a presidential flop. Now, in the winter of his career, Massachusetts’ political lion makes his final case.

In their effort to give the gun lobby its number one priority these lawmakers plan to hold the Fix NICS Act of 2017 hostage, binding the passage of a law that is designed to save lives with one that most scholars and law enforcement experts believe will have just the opposite effect. While the Fix […]

The tax code currently allows hardship exemptions to that two-year rule, and it’s unclear at this point whether a similar exemption would be available under the revised five-year requirement, said Tim Gagnon, an associate teaching professor of accounting at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

Retail thinking is spreading quickly in health care. It promises greater convenience and speed for delivering basic health care services — but it isn’t what patients really want.

Professor Auroop Ganguly from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts is an expert in extreme weather and infrastructural resilience. He points out that it is difficult to say with certainty that such weather events are caused by climate change. To make any such claim, he explained, one needs years and years of weather data.

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her new book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain turns everything you know about the feels upside down.

“Theoretically, it should be just like a hospital. You go in, you’re given the full spectrum of care,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University law and health sciences professor. “Instead, it’s just like a warehouse.”

Around the same time, though, criminologist James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor, found more domestic violence links to the shootings catalogued by the group. Fox said in a USA Today commentary published after Rodriguez sent out his email blast that of Everytown’s 85 listed shootings in which a person shot a family member, 41 […]

Northeastern University conducted a panel to discuss the topic further titled, “Invisible No More: Black Women and Police Violence,” that looked at criminalization – of African American women and women of color, like Two -Spirit, Latin, Asian, Arab, and Middle Eastern women, to name a few – and police violence that sometimes resulted with deadly […]

Bahareh and Farzaneh Safarani, identical twin sisters from Tehran who last year graduated from Northeastern University with MFAs in studio art, presented the opening of their exhibition “SANCTUARY” on Tuesday.