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 […]

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 […]