“It’s been just a phenomenal experience,” Marvin Kelly, who traveled with the students, said. “It’s truly an amazing group.” Kelly is an attorney with Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which collaborated on the investigation into Williams’ death and plans to continue the probe. “The death certificate does list this, to this very […]

When the world gets you down, do you feel just generally “bad”? Or do you have more precise emotional experiences, such as grief or despair or gloom? In psychology, people with finely tuned feelings are said to exhibit “emotional granularity.” When reading about the abuses of the Islamic State, for example, you might experience creeping […]

Wednesday’s murder suicide at UCLA, in which an esteemed professor was fatally shot inside his office by a former student, was absolutely tragic. But inaccurately calling it an active shooter situation only added to the panic on campus and off. Taking nothing for granted, the police response was forceful, yet no one besides the intended target was […]

True, the changes might be mostly the result of colleges doing damage control in a media era that has made coverups harder. But those very factors could fuel the trend further. “This wasn’t a conversation people were having 10, 15 years ago,” says Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport […]

When Joseph Reagle, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, and his colleague compared biographies from the English-language Wikipedia and the online Encyclopaedia Britannica, they found that Wikipedia dominates Britannica in biographical coverage (largely due to the fact that it’s just much bigger), but more so […]

On June 1, Northeastern showed off some of the first programming feats from its work with the humanoid robot R5 – better known as Valkyrie – it was granted from NASA. And she (no, not it) strutted her stuff, to say the least. In November, 2015, Northeastern engineering professor Taskin Padir was chosen by NASA […]

It’s not exactly breaking news that Democratic and Republican legislators are deeply divided on the issue of climate change. Now, a new study by researchers at Northeastern University suggests it may not be just climate change, but science as a whole, that has become a wedge issue in Congress. And they used an unusual tool […]

Daniel Medwed, a criminal law expert and professor at Northeastern University, said Hafen’s actions are indeed alarming. “If a judge perceives that a lawyer is acting inappropriately, then contempt is the usual recourse, and/or initiating a disciplinary action,” Medwed said. “But handcuffing a lawyer to teach a lesson strikes me far outside the norm of […]

Northeastern University is sharing a look into the future with its new robot. NASA’s humanoid “Valkyrie,” can walk and wave her hands. Researchers hope she’ll be able to go to Mars in order to help astronauts get there.

Josh Levin, a Northeastern University senior, is a contestant on the new season of “American Ninja Warrior,” which premieres June 1 on NBC. This will be the eighth season of the obstacle course competition, which is hosted by Matt Iseman,Kristine Leahy, and former NFL player Akbar Gbajabiamila. According to news@Northeastern, Levin is an accomplished rock […]

The “new home cooking,” which Kimball has described at public appearances since he left America’s Test Kitchen, is about incorporating techniques and ingredients not typically part of the standard American repertoire. “People in Mexico don’t cook Mexican food. They just cook dinner,” he said to a crowd at Northeastern University in February. “Everyone adapts to what […]

While some early ransomware developers apparently wrote their own encryption code—considered poor programming practice in any circumstances—newer ransomware has used off-the-shelf libraries that are significantly harder to crack, says Engin Kirda, a professor at Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science, who’s written about the subject. “We’re seeing more and more ransomware using existing […]