“The movement to paperless ticketing makes it difficult, sometimes impossible, to transfer tickets. They are like airline tickets. You buy a ticket in your name, you have to go,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University who studies antitrust issues.

“It could be an act of trespassing or vandalism. It could be a violent crime, like rape or murder,” Jack Levin, an expert on hate crimes at Northeastern University, previously told me. “But when the motive involves targeting someone because of a difference, then it becomes a hate crime.”

A team led by Northeastern University’s Dave Choffnes, an assistant professor in its College of Computer and Information Science, developed ReCon, a sort of virtual private network (VPN) for personally identifiable data (PII in the field’s jargon). Unlike a regular VPN, which protects data in a secure tunnel between a user’s device and a data […]

Ask 10 roboticists what a robot actually is and you’ll get 10 different answers. But here’s one from Hanumant Singh, of Northeastern University: a system that exhibits “complex” behavior and includes sensing and actuation.

Aneri Pattani recently graduated with a degree in journalism from Northeastern University in Boston. This summer, she will be a James Reston Reporting Fellow at The New York Times, working with the health and science teams. She will also be traveling to Liberia with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. She has worked at CNBC, […]

How many people in your college class created a product, got it into 1,000 retailers, and generated more than half a million bucks in revenue before graduation day? Johnny Fayad and Ali Kothari of Northeastern University also ran a successful campaign on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, raising $44,000 from backers excited to get their hands […]

Did you miss Joe Biden’s speech for Class Day at Harvard? How about one of Elizabeth Warren’s addresses to UMass Amherst or Wheelock College? Or CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour’s words of wisdom to Northeastern grads? Here are a few of the more memorable (and controversial!) quotes from this year’s area commencement speeches.

Trump did not mention “democracy” in the speech—he noted that he promised in his inaugural address that “America will not seek to impose our way of life on others”—and said his vision for those gathered together at the summit was one of peace, security, and prosperity. According to Max Abrahms, professor of political science at […]

Northeastern, which feeds 20,000 people a day, has gone even further. Its community is already consuming 25% more produce, twice the whole grains, 30% less sodium, and 10% less soda. The Boston-based university is also tackling food waste. Starting this fall, dining halls will no longer feature trays. “Right now, all students are on an […]

Dan Kennedy, a media critic and journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston, pointed to the Obama administration’s pursuit of leakers, including a long legal battle aimed at compelling New York Times reporter James Risen to reveal confidential sources. “It’s always more helpful to be able to pursue this kind of leak” — related to […]

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, told graduates of Boston’s Northeastern University to combat the “assault on the truth” by some world leaders. “To all of you: Be the generation that changes this toxic brew of polarization and partisanship that we’re drowning in and that threatens to destroy our civilizations and our democracies and our […]

Drugs do, in fact, fuel crime. Dealers often turn to violence to carve out territories and enforce loyalty. And chronic drug users sometimes turn to crime to support their habits. But research has shown that boosting drug crime prosecutions often does not lead to a reduction in violent crime — and that in some instances, […]