Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena is a multipurpose athletics hall that for 115 years has been home to events featuring magic and star power on par with Fenway Park, both Boston Gardens, and the long list of gridirons that have housed your Patriots since their creation.

How a particular brain assigns meaning has to do with a person’s prior experiences—what Lisa Feldman Barrett, the director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and the author of How Emotions Are Made, calls its “concepts and categories.”

Op-ed by Peter Enrich, a professor emeritus at Northeastern University School of Law and member of the steering committee of the Coalition to Reform Our Legislature.

But according to Maria Ivanova, director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and codirector of the Plastics Center at Northeastern University, the treaty doesn’t need saving. It needs a reset. “It’s saving when something is dead. A reset is when I hit an obstacle, and I’m gonna turn around.”

Contrast that with institutions treating governance as infrastructure. Northeastern University partnered with Anthropic in 2025 to pilot Claude for Education across its global university system, giving students, faculty, and staff secure access to the tool.

“You have this group of six women who are extraordinarily creative and brilliant. They were Energizer bunnies, every one of them, and so smart — and they had no outlet,” said Kaplan, a professor of American literature at Northeastern University. “Their creativity, for the most part, explodes in really unfortunate ways.”

“There have been layoffs in a lot of high-tech businesses, but I think that’s largely because they over hired during the recovery from the pandemic,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor emeritus of economics at Northeastern University. 

The team of researchers from Stanford University, the University of Washington, and Northeastern University then tested the browser extension on the X feeds of over 1,200 participants who consented to having them modified for 10 days in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election.

Northeastern University has developed a micro-credential center and offers a primer for education al leaders, and the Grow with Google program has enlisted dozens of universities to accept Google Career Certificates for up to 15 credits toward degrees.