But that is a far cry from being a tool of Democrats, said Amilcar Barreto, a Puerto Rican political expert at Northeastern University. “Complaining about people on the island not having food, electricity, water is not partisan. That’s just basic human necessity.”

“Sadly, the island is so badly damaged that there is no ability to communicate—no way to know the number of people who may have been killed in the storm itself with houses coming down, debris,” Stephen E. Flynn, the founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, tells Newsweek.

“It would be a major transformation,” said Barry Bluestone, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University and senior fellow at the Boston Foundation. “We’re talking about something that’s totally out of scale [from] anything we’ve ever seen.”

“The reason people so easily embrace this idea that things are bad out there … is because there is a level of discord. If we were all getting along and not distrusting our neighbor, we wouldn’t be so easily persuaded by a short-term spike in crime into thinking that the sky is falling,” says Northeastern […]

Peter Furth, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, dissects Boston’s most dangerous intersections and shows why they are a headache for drivers.

That’s an idea that a team at Northeastern University in Boston is exploring. They’ve begun a trial in which they’re introducing terminally ill patients to chatbots—computer programs able to converse with humans.

Northeastern University professor Barry Bluestone writes an annual housing report for the Boston Foundation. He gives Walsh high marks.

This year’s milestone 40th event features a full week of programming, beginning Sunday, that includes a screening of the documentary “Chasing Trane,” a photography exhibit, a slideshow talk about Coltrane’s life and work and, on Friday, the memorial concert itself. On Saturday, the commemoration concludes with a performance at Northeastern University’s Blackman Auditorium by the […]

As the Federal Communications Commission takes up the issue of whether to reverse the Obama-era Open Internet Order, a key question consumers and policymakers alike are asking is: What difference do these rules make? Northeastern professor David Choffnes explains.

Perhaps the biggest advancement IBM has seen in its digital badge program is in the partnership its forged with Northeastern University. Certain IBM badges can be used toward Northeastern professional master’s degree programs.

Some companies approach projects with a longer time frame. “There is a nice trend in Fortune 500 companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Cigna that offer global pro bono advisor or volunteer programs to their employees,” said Paula Caligiuri, PhD, D’Amore-McKim School of Business Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University. “In these programs, employees are on […]

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun, author of “Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” writes why universities with the audacity to change represent humanity’s best chance to win the jobs of the future and keep up in the age of artificial intelligence.