Now “we see partisan polarization or ideological polarization,” said Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor at Northeastern University. The split with science is most visible and strident when it comes to climate change because the nature of the global problem requires communal joint action, and “for conservatives that’s especially difficult to accept,” Nisbet said. Climate change […]

Concerned about the percentage of women working in tech, Carla Brodley has created curriculum designed to expose students to computer science and, particularly, inspire women.

It’s possible that an earlier electoral map was published in a newspaper, but custom graphics were rare in those days, says Ryan Cordell, who studies information exchange in 19th-century newspapers at Northeastern University. “Images were not very common in newspapers until late in the 19th century, save the stock images used for advertisements and some […]

In his book, Presidential Debates, Professor Alan Schroeder of Northeastern University wrote: “According to Nixon campaign manager Bob Finch, “We kept pushing for [Nixon] to have some give-and-take with either somebody from the staff…anything. He hadn’t done anything except to tell me he knew how to debate. He totally refused to prepare.”

As Northeastern University journalism professor Alan Schroeder points out in his book on the perils of the presidential campaign trail, the Bush team believed that since the debate was being held in conservative Richmond, Virginia, undecided voters would be impressed enough by a chance to speak to the president that they wouldn’t ask him hard questions. Bush […]

A brazen knife attack in Belgium that left two police officers with stab wounds and is believed to be terror-related may be the result of the Islamic State call for random, small-scale attacks across the globe, one local expert warns. “This group is decentralizing. The Islamic State leadership is telling people to commit acts locally […]

Want to track your blood pressure? Pull out the blood pressure cuff. Curious about your temperature? Grab a thermometer from the medicine cabinet. But several engineers from Northeastern University have created one device that does all of that and more, and the creators are looking to raise up to $2 million from both US and […]

On a clear, cold day off the coast near Woods Hole on Cape Cod, a small crane lifted the six-foot yellow torpedo-shaped machine off the boat and into the water. The researchers on the boat who were testing the robotic autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, sent computer signals out to the craft as it bobbed […]

“Raw data is extremely valuable for building these kinds of artificial intelligence systems,” Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University, tells the Monitor. “Facebook may want to preserve that.” The practice of optional encryption may deprive less tech-savvy users who don’t understand the benefits that come from enabling certain settings on the app, […]

In a recent experiment, teens did better than adults on a computer game that allowed them to learn from correct guesses. Two brain areas seem to work together to help teens succeed at this kind of learning and perhaps prepare for adulthood, Shohamy and her colleagues reported today in the journalNeuron. “If a developing brain […]

Scott McKinley, Dean and CEO of Northeastern University’s Seattle campus, says industry and education must stop “finger pointing and whining” and work together to solve these challenges. “There are people that are trying to chip away at this problem,” McKinley said, speaking at a panel on higher education in 2016 GeekWire Summit.

Faces of Northeastern is a man-on-the-street style series started by photography manager Matthew Modoono and senior writer Joe O’Connell within Northeastern’s external affairs office. Most people are familiar with the style, which harks back to Humans of New York, but by focusing on campus, the photos serve to bring the Northeastern community—students, staff and faculty—together […]