MesoGlue first came about when Stagon was a PhD. student for Dr. Hanchen Huang at Northeastern University. Stagon continued the project when he became an assistant professor at UNF in 2014. Both UNF and Northeastern University share the pending patent of MesoGlue.This metallic adhesive is game-changing in several ways. It would improve heat transfer for […]

One of the committee members is Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center, who has been advocating for colleges and universities to support the construction of millennial villages. “Unfortunately, because we have so little housing for [graduate students] and very little graduate housing beside Harvard and MIT, those folks are taking over housing that was intended […]

Whales, the biggest animals on the planet, are also among the hardest to find. They spend most of their time submerged and unseen. But not unheard: Whales are noisy animals that flood the oceans with songs, clicks, moans, and calls. And Purnima Ratilal from Northeastern University has developed a way of listening in on these calls […]

The account was created by Northeastern University student Halle O’Conor, who’s hoping to score an internship at “The Tonight Show.” O’Conor got the idea from her mother, who once took trips with a “Flat Stanley” (a paper doll based on a popular 1964 children’s book featuring a little boy who is flattened by a book […]

Though candidate debates are frequently dismissed as lacking in substance, the most recent Republican debate — and, in particular, the now-famous exchange between Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio about the content of Trump’s health care plan — really did help reveal something important. The reason Trump was reduced to repeating his determination to […]

But to Professor Max Abrahms of Northeastern University, a terrorism expert and an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations, that sort of Muslim-bashing “is the surest way, ironically, to radicalize them. I’m very worried that Trump’s rhetoric which is, in a sense, anti-Muslim, will be counter-productive by basically radicalizing our Muslim allies at […]

But even controlling for price changes for issues like demand or technical delays, some retailers still display different prices from person to person, said Christo Wilson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in the College of Computer and Information Science. While some of the pricing changes are immaterial, Wilson said that the personal data the […]

Using a tax refund check to pay off debt is the most popular way to spend a tax refund, as 27% of respondents plan to do so, according to the GOBankingRates survey. “The goal in spending a tax refund should be long-term financial security,” said Tim Gagnon, a professor of accounting at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim […]

So how did Masson go from working on Star Wars movies and South Parkanimation to creating virtual tools for architects? “I’ve changed industries a number of times. When things get too easy or problems are solved, I don’t want to be doing the same thing over and over again, so I try something new. I […]

Black Lives Matter activist Ashley Williams crashed a private campaign fundraiser in Charleston, S.C., last week, demanding that Hillary Clinton answer for using the term “superpredators” in a 1996 speech. She blamed Clinton for demonizing black youth and for helping to push a racist policy agenda of mass incarceration. But nothing in Clinton’s remark was […]

If you haven’t heard – and I don’t know how that could be – tomorrow is Super Tuesday. Presidential candidates will see how they stack up with primary elections going down in 11 states – Massachusetts being one of them. Rather than camping out in front of CNN or Fox all day, there’s a better […]

Gbowee was at Northeastern University’s inaugural New England Interfaith Student Summit earlier this month. She spoke to The Monitor about the role of women and prayer in bringing peace to violent conflicts. The interview has been edited for length.