VocaliD creates a computer voice that sounds like the user once did—or, in the case of someone who has never spoken, sounds like what they would have. Patel, a speech clinician and scientist who is a tenured professor at Northeastern University, uses the small noises from something like a laugh or hum from a person […]

The Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe joined Boston Public Radio Monday for their regular segment, All Revved Up. Price and Monroe talked about two Boston mothers who turned their sons in for their suspected roles in the murder of a 16-year-old. They also talked about the former head of a Washington NAACP suspected […]

Over the weekend on June 14, UN-brokered talks began in Geneva, but many Yemenis know that with the increasingly hostile armed factions, a destroyed economy and the Saudi/Iran rivalry playing itself out in their country, peace will be hard to come by. With the Houthi rebels in the north and al Qaeda in the Arabia […]

These numbers are hard to verify because no one really knows for certain a manager’s stake in his or her firm, said Nicole Boyson, a finance professor at Northeastern University. Additionally, funds charged to clients vary drastically among and within the different firms, and one would also have to account for how much of these […]

Bringing student loan debt — or any debt — into retirement is dangerous since retirement already is full of variables, with the largest being how long the retiree will live, said Coleen Pantalone, a professor of finance at Northeastern University in Boston. “Retirement is a risky time of life,” Pantalone said. “It is tempting to […]

“James is going to be under a microscope, and everyone will be comparing him to a legend,” said Ted Clark, executive director of the Center for Family Business at Northeastern University. “It’s going to be really hard to measure up.”

Edgar Allen Poe and John Lee Hooker recently showed up on Northeastern University’s campus. No, they’re not back from the dead. The pair was reincarnated by stencil graffiti artist Jef Aérosol—the pseudonym of Jean-François Perroy. He’s been painting murals all over Northeastern this week as part of President Joseph Aoun’s public art initiative. Northeastern is […]

“We live in such a patriarchal sports culture, it continually diminishes the talents and accomplishments of women while highlighting their objectification,” said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University. “You look at the Women’s World Cup, it’s there at the forefront once again.”

Lisa Feldman Barrett thinks we’ve long misunderstood how our brains work — and what’s going on when we’re stressed. For decades, scientists have assumed that the brain simply responded to signs from the outside world: See tiger coming; get anxious. But instead, Barrett, a Northeastern University professor, argues in a new paper in Nature Reviews […]

MILES O’BRIEN: Other disease modelers were equally alarmed. At Northeastern University, Alessandro Vespignani also created an Ebola epidemic model at his Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems. It predicted that, if nothing was done, Ebola would spread way beyond West Africa. ALESSANDRO VESPIGNANI, Northeastern University: And you will see that, by February, […]

So, though it’s still extremely early research, I was gladdened by a report just out from Northeastern University that a prominent germ-fighting scientist may have found a new way to kill off Lyme disease bacteria even when it persists after antibiotics. In test tubes, at least. Prof. Kim Lewis, chief of Northeastern’s Antimicrobial Discovery Center, […]

But a new discovery by Northeastern University biology professor Kim Lewis may shed some light on the often-confusing illness. Lewis and his team of researchers found that Lyme disease creates something called dormant persister cells, which are resistant to antibiotics. The presence of these cells at least partially explains why patients can be so slow […]