In the tradition of commencement speeches, repetition is inevitable. Year after year, influential speakers offer graduates a relatively familiar message, telling them to change the world while seizing opportunities and overcoming fears of failure. This year, many speakers have added a new topical piece of advice to the rotation: don’t behave like Donald Trump.

Josh Levin, a Northeastern University senior, has advanced to the next round as a contestant on “American Ninja Warrior.” This is the eighth season of the obstacle course competition, and Levin competed in the Los Angeles qualifier. Judging from his post on Instagram, he was happy with his performance. He wrote: “LA Qualifiers of #AmericanNinjaWarrior […]

A team of engineers at Northeastern University is working on technology that could screen passengers quickly enough that they would haven’t to slow down for security on their way to the gate. They’re working to create a structure filled with high-capacity sensors that can screen multiple travelers at a time and still detect potential threats. […]

Officials are expecting around 500,000 spectators and athletes. Then the model predicts, there will be — at most — 16 cases of Zika at the Olympics. So attendees are much more likely to get the flu or food poisoning at the games than Zika, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control concluded. “If I […]

In particular, the decline in teen jobs is a symptom of other age groups taking the jobs once reserved for younger workers, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate director at the Boston-based Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. As more people have gone to college, those in their early 20s have demanded part-time retail and restaurant jobs […]

“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 […]