“In was in 1992 when 100 million containers moved through all the world’s ports, then in 1998, we went to 200 million,” said Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. “Roughly we’re at a little over 600 million today.

New digital technology created by researchers, including Northeastern professor Rupal Patel, allows people without a voice to sound like themselves for the first time.

At the Clinton Foundation, we are proud to work with and support many young idealists in action, including through the student community of the Clinton Global Initiative University, or CGI U. This weekend, more than 1,000 student leaders from 282 schools and 95 countries gathered at Northeastern University for CGI U’s 10th annual meeting to […]

The AHA did not account for the giant tax break hospitals get on their property, “which is just a joke,” said Craig Garthwaite, a health economist at Northwestern University. “Exclusion of property taxes would be a very major problem,” added Gary Young, a health policy professor at Northeastern University who has studied tax exemptions for […]

Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy served under President Obama. He left that post this past spring after the Trump administration called on him to resign. Before becoming a surgeon general, Murthy worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and this weekend he joined a panel discussion at the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative […]

The 42nd President and his daughter were in Boston Sunday as the Clinton Foundation held their annual Day of Action in the city. President Bill Clinton led hundreds of students from the Clinton Global Initiative in a series of four volunteer beautification projects. Spearheaded by The Clinton Foundation and hosted by Northeastern University, the Day of Action program seeks […]

The 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative University wraps up with a day of service in Boston Sunday. Hundreds of college students from all over the world have been taking part at the three-day event, this year at Northeastern University. Former President Clinton, along with his daughter Chelsea and Congressman Joseph Kennedy III, fielded questions at […]

Shakir Mustafa, a professor who grew up in Mosul and now teaches at Northeastern University in the United States, said the burning of libraries, cinemas, theatres and bookstores by ISIL was wielded as a deliberate weapon of wanton destruction.

And finally, as argued by Northeastern University Professor Matthew Nisbet, horse race journalism leads to coverage that seems to present a false equivalency in the treatment of meaningful issues and allows more readily for the emergence of so-called “fake news.”

Former president Bill Clinton took on the politics of discrimination and division in a panel discussion in Boston Friday night, never naming President Trump but pointedly addressing recent controversies that have been associated with the president’s rhetoric and the views of some Trump supporters. Speaking on a panel before a crowd of more than 1,000 […]

The 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting kicks off Friday at Northeastern University, bringing together more than 1,000 students and experts to hear from former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and more over the course of the three-day event. From Oct. 13 to 15, the CGI U will feature seminars, workshops and panel discussions in order to […]

Hundreds of college students from across the U.S. will be coming to Boston for a leadership conference created by former President Bill Clinton. Northeastern University is hosting the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting, which gathers students and experts in a variety of fields to discuss solutions to pressing problems.