From early on, music was Fitzgerald’s salvation. It was where she lived. She could lose herself in it and go somewhere else, no matter what was happening around her. Northeastern University music historian Judith Tick imagines the young girl “singing by herself in a corner of a recess schoolyard and looking happy, smiling and laughing.” […]

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching a project aimed at reshaping the news media — and tackling the scourge of misinformation — using the same collaborative principles as the revolutionary online encyclopedia. Jeff Howe, a journalist who coined the term crowdsourcing and now is a professor at Northeastern University, said this system can be positive […]

Other, more recent approaches, such as those of Andrey Rzhetsky at the University of Chicago and Albert-László Barabási at Northeastern University, rely on mathematical modeling and graph theory. They incorporate large datasets, in which knowledge is projected as a network, where nodes are concepts and links are relationships between them. Novel hypotheses would show up […]

John B. McLemore, the brilliant, mentally ill protagonist of “S-Town,” may not have been entirely aware of what he was in for the day that he convinced Reed to investigate a murder that turned out not to have taken place. But McLemore never seems not to be in control of his own story — even […]

The phrase “climate change” triggers images of a huge, global phenomenon. Rising seas. Drought. Ocean acidification. But it’s actually experienced on a much smaller scale, by individual plants, animals and people. And most of the world’s organisms experience it much differently than humans do. “As humans, we have this really biased view of the world. […]

Awarded every other year by the AIA College of Fellows, the Latrobe Prize is a major award—$100,000—granted to a two-year project that leads “to significant advances in the architectural profession.” This year, the award, which is named after architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, was given to a team of three faculty members of Northeastern University’s School […]

Emily White was a music industry major and a scholarship swimmer at Northeastern University in Boston. In 2012, she combined her two interests to start Dreamfuel, a platform that helps elite and youth athletes raise money to help get them to the next level. Dreamfuel has since been contacted by the president of the Afghanistan […]

“What is surprising is that it lasts so long,” says William Hobbs, a social scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, who conducted the work at the University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with Moira Burke, a data scientist at Facebook. Not all deaths were the same. Postdeath interactions were more frequent after cancer and […]

“So when they downplayed it, it really infuriated people,” said Kenneth MacDonald, a former senior Homeland Security official who helped establish the multi-agency coordination center at the heart of the National Counterproliferation Initiative. “They’d spent months or years on these cases and the decisions were made with no review of what the implications were,” said […]

Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University, said the report documents what he, too, has been finding. “There has been a rebirth of anti-Semitism associated with electoral politics, both in Europe and in hate groups in the United States,” he said. McDevitt said traffickers in hate focus on any […]

Dr. Daniel Dulaski, a civil engineer and professor at Northeastern University who specializes in transportation design and safety, said one of the top jobs of engineers designing a road is to move water. “As we design a roadway we’re trying to get that water out of the travel lane as quickly as possible,” he said. […]

Though robots are getting more and more involved in factory work and in a wide range of other types of jobs – including in the service industry and health care – their dexterity is not nearly as impressive. Since people first brought them to work in automotive factories more than 50 years ago, we have […]