The United States is considering building more American military bases in Iraq to help drive back Islamic State militants. Meanwhile a year after Islamic State captured Iraq’s second largest city Mosul, the group has released a documentary hailing the assault as an epic Islamic conquest. The World Today spoke with Dr Max Abrahms, a terrorism […]

Give back: Consider getting involved in community service. Maggie Fitzgerald, a sophomore at Northeastern University, supplemented her time abroad with volunteer work at a homeless shelter. She says: “Throughout my semester studying abroad in London, England, I worked at a local homeless shelter far from the bustle of the city center.  The experience enhanced my understanding […]

William Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s dean of admissions and financial aid, is expecting about 40,000 prospective students and family members to register for tours of its campus this year — more than twice as many as a decade ago. More than 70,000 visitors attended Boston University information sessions and tours in 2014, a 33 percent increase from […]

A car cleaning company, a supermarket group serving the Hispanic community and an electrical contractor took top honors Wednesday night in Northeastern University’s annual family business awards. As in many business competitions, judges looked at areas such as innovation and positive community impact. In a departure from the usual criteria, the panel assembled by the […]

But Louis J. Kruger, a professor of educational psychology at Northeastern University, said an MCAS score is not enough by itself to accurately assess student performance. “The MCAS . . . is one measure among many potential measures,” Kruger said. “If we want a full picture of someone’s academic accomplishment, we have to use multiple measures, because […]

Graduation ceremonies for the 34 public high schools in Boston began last week and will continue through next week. The more than 4,100 students graduating from one of the country’s most diverse school systems come from more than 100 different countries. WBUR’s Delores Handy joins Morning Edition to introduce us to one of these notable graduates: Fatuma Mohamed, who was born […]

Guided by theoretical calculations led by Arun Bansil, a professor of physics at Northeastern University, researchers found that a gap between different groupings of energy bands in the sample material actually shrank as electrons were added, reducing the material’s stored energy level – like the water level appearing to decline in the cup example.In principle, […]

Channeling March Madness: “You could do a playoff round where it’s almost NCAA brackets,” said Alan Schroeder, author of “Presidential Debates: 40 Years of High-Risk TV” and journalism professor at Northeastern University. “You could literally have four rounds at a time, and you could let voters and viewers vote in real time on who won […]

This week is a big one for America’s global relations. While Congress started hashing out whether to hand the president authority to finish the largest trade deal in history, Obama was wrapping up the G-7 economic summit in Germany. Beneath the talking points, what are America’s real priorities when it comes to the rest of […]

“It was not a surprise decision because it fits in a rich tradition of criminal law cases by the Supreme Court holding that there must be a blameworthy mental state in order for the defendant to be found guilty,” said Daniel Medwed, who teaches criminal law at Northeastern University. In the brave new online world, […]

Philosophy Professor Patricia Illingworth of Northeastern University said she thinks it’s okay for applicants to modify their name to avoid implicit bias “to get their foot in the door,” but considers this type of behavior uncourageous. “My concern with lying or gaming the system by misrepresenting your name and cultural background is you maintain the […]

“24 Hours in the Life of a Swiss Cuckoo Clock” contains 24 cuckoo clock designs created by students and faculty the Geneva University of Art and Design. The pieces, on display at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, update the look of an old and whimsical way of telling time. Cuckoo clocks developed in the Black Forest […]