Northeastern president Joseph Aoun received an award that includes a $500,000 grant for the university — and then matched it with his own funds.

Northeastern president Joseph E. Aoun discusses his new book on how higher education can train students for careers where technology cannot make them redundant.

“What is different about these disasters is not that they are bigger and more destructive – we’ve had big disruptive disasters over human history – but the fact that what makes a disaster catastrophic is the contact with the built environment,” says Stephen Flynn, the founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University […]

And it turns out the latest research shows that the little we know about emotions is actually all wrong. And I mean really wrong. 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 Brainturns […]

Without diluting the underlying altruism and generosity that drives this work, graduate students can recognize and represent the bankable reality of these experiences as expressions of skills and sometimes subject-matter expertise. In an ideal world, students will also cultivate their networks they deepen this category of experience. The people they join in providing service, and […]

Much of the risk from biometrics is created by how they are implemented and the design of the technologies that use them. For example, will the faceprints be stored locally and can authentication occur without having to access a remote location using the Internet? Or will they be stored in a centralized database? If so, […]

A difficult proposition, but engineers at Northeastern University were up to the task. They call their work a “plasmonically-enhanced micromechanical photoswitch,” which pretty much sums it up. I could end the article right here. But for those of you who slept in class the day we covered that topic, I guess I can explain.

Hurricane Irma. How we’re dealing and what we’re learning from an Atlantic monster, with Stephen Flynn Founding Director of the Global Resilience Institute and Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University.

There may be interest in a club like Haddon Hall, said Len Albright, assistant professor of sociology and public policy at Northeastern University, but it has to strike the right balance. Young people are attracted to exclusivity, he said, but they also are keen on authenticity and individuality.

“We have top-down institutions like FEMA and law enforcement, but then we have bottom-up phenomenon too, like the market and civic engagement, so people can flee feeling secure that they can find a hotel room, that there will be a church that can help, or friends will reach out, even if they’re dealing with survivor’s […]

Researchers at places like Northeastern University, Carnegie Mellon University, Google and OpenAI — the artificial intelligence lab founded by Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk — are developing similar techniques, and many believe that such machine learning will ultimately allow robots to master a much wider array of tasks, including manufacturing.

Dukakis is a member of the school’s board of directors, one of seven boards on which he serves. He teaches public policy at UCLA in the wintertime and spends the rest of the year at Northeastern, where he is a distinguished professor of political science. Dukakis is able to teach his students about the hard […]