Northeastern University touted the grand opening of its new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on Monday, pointing to the $225 million facility as commitment to scientific advances and innovation in Massachusetts. U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh joined Northeastern President Joseph Aoun to officially […]

Hundreds of volunteers worked through the weekend’s rain, sleet, and snow to build a Dorchester playground that was dedicated in Sunday’s bright sunshine to honor a Boston Marathon bombing survivor who died in a car crash a year ago. Victoria McGrath’s parents, Jim and Jill McGrath, proudly told a gathering at the playground on Deer […]

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“We just cannot afford to give up,” said NSF Director France Cordova, delivering the keynote address at the opening of a new $225 million science and engineering complex at Northeastern University. Without mentioning Trump by name, Cordova said deep cuts would be devastating to scientific research and the economy. “The discoveries that have made such […]

Northeastern University on Monday opened a nearly-quarter-billion-dollar hub for science and engineering research. The facility on Columbus Avenue was funded with help from the National Science Foundation. Research there will range from cybersecurity, drug discovery, robotics and climate change.

Amid uncertainty around the future flow of federal research dollars, Northeastern University celebrated the grand opening of its new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on Monday, pointing to the $225 million facility as evidence of the school’s growing ambition and its commitment to scientific advances in Massachusetts. “This complex is a statement that this city, […]

More than two months after the Women’s March in Boston, volunteers who salvaged more than a thousand signs from the protest laid them out on the floor of a South Boston warehouse, covering about 15,000 square feet of space. “You could study these forever,” said Northeastern University professor Nathan Felde Saturday afternoon, watching colleagues step […]

yan Shaw’s older brother, Connor, still cherishes a video featuring the pair working out together: Connor lifting weights, and Ryan riding a skateboard on a treadmill. “The 5K itself is pretty ironic, because Ryan was never really a runner,” Connor, 23, said about the charity 5 kilometer run to honor his brother, who died of […]

“It’s our way of giving back to thank the City of Boston…our hearts are here, Victoria’s heart and memory are going to live in this playground,” her mother, Jill, said. Victoria loved children and spent time working with special needs children, her mother explained. “It’s something Victoria would really like. We can feel her presence […]

As crayon-maker Crayola was gearing up to pull back the curtains Friday morning — it’s National Crayon Day — and reveal the retirement of one of its many crayon colors, an event the company hoped would draw widespread response from coloring fiends and crafty customers alike on social media, Hegyi, a Northeastern University employee, beat […]

James Alan Fox, of Northeastern University in Boston, noted that major U.S. cities such as Chicago still saw more killings a quarter century ago than today. “The only silver lining to the soaring rates of homicides and shootings that Chicago has experienced is that at some point they’ll go down,” he said. “I mean they […]

Doctor David Benjamin, a Northeastern University toxicologist, also expressed concern, “I’d call this an ostrich problem with the government putting their head in the sand.” The FAA initially told NBC Boston the agency requires airlines to test their pilots and “…yes, a drug like Fentanyl would be detected.” The NBC Boston Investigators dug deeper and […]