The sheer volume of phishing e-mails received by many nongovernmental organizations that do work in China means that many are automated, according to Engin Kirda, director of Northeastern University’s Information Assurance Institute. He was part of a team of researchers that uncovered long-running spear-phishing attacks aimed at the World Uyghur Congress – a group that […]

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the state’s highest, enjoys a storied place in the annals of progressive legal thought.  Among its many notable achievements, the SJC laid the groundwork for the national recognition of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court last June through its innovative 2003 decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public […]

The number of manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts has declined over each of the past two years, but the loss of jobs is slowing, according to state figures. A 2012 study by the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University projected the state would lose about 2,000 manufacturing jobs annually […]

“I personally don’t feel particularly rankled by this,” said Neal Lerner, an English professor at Northeastern University, who’s been teaching for more than 25 years. “Read an Emily Dickinson poem and you’ll see how she does the same thing. I love that idea of a writer using what resources are available and repurposing what’s available […]

Longtime Boston media observer and Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy broke the news on Twitter. Kennedy reported no money will be exchanged in the deal and GlobalPost will move from its headquarters in the North End to WGBH’s spacious building in Brighton.

The good news starts at the top: Jennifer Ellis is as strong an Eliza Doolittle as I’ve seen anywhere, including on screen. She sings beautifully and acts without exaggeration, leaving it to the score and script to work their magic. Christopher Chew hews to the same pattern as Henry Higgins, making no effort whatsoever to […]

One expert said years of cars running with ineffective emissions controls is enough to make an environmental impact. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates the cars emitted up to 40 times the legal pollution limit. “The impact is we had more pollutants from those cars emitting all the time,” said Yiannis Levendis, an engineering professor at […]

Forty or so years after the golden New Age era of the 60s and 70s, “there is a feeling that people are still unsatisfied with their lives,” says Timothy Brown, a professor at Northeastern University currently researching New Age cultures. “The practices that have been passed down from Eastern traditions are time-tested and very powerful. […]

Also at NAGA, Sophia Ainslie’s abstract paintings on paper have the whizzbang crispness, tangy hues, and brio of comic book graphics, although they’re made with tiny, almost imperceptible brushstrokes. Ainslie uses an X-ray of her late mother’s abdomen, taken to better see her cancer, as a starting point. She’s been using the X-ray as source […]

When I dropped by Northeastern University to speak with Ben Bungert, NU student and president of the Entrepreneurs Club, I quickly discovered that the college campus is a complex web of ventures. As Bungert ran through the “eclub” and its rebranding efforts, conversations with the IDEA Ventures Accelerator’s members and startup founders were simultaneously tossed […]

The documentary, “Everywhere But Safe,” debuted at Maysles Cinema in Manhattan in August and will be available on Sept. 30. The film leaves an unanswered question: Could safe injection sites ever be legal? Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University , said it’s not impossible, but “there’s a variety […]

In the absence of the drugs, a headache will develop, explains Tayla Rose, PharmD, visiting assistant clinical professor at the Northeastern University School of Pharmacy. Although people who are predisposed to headaches are more likely to develop the condition, it can happen to anyone. “Any medication can cause MOH if you’re taking too much of […]