Five Northeastern University student-researchers have retrofitted a rowing machine with an ingenious device, allowing people with paraplegia to exercise without the aid of a trainer. The modified ergometer, dubbed the “power row,” was designed for a senior capstone project under the direction of Sandra Shefelbine, an associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering. Team members […]

The “Mad Men” storyline brings up important questions about how and when to talk to children about a parent’s chronic or terminal illness.

Similar efforts to plug students into digital citizenship are happening in several other cities. In Boston, for instance, law professors and students at Northeastern University’s NuLawLab are working with high school bicycle advocates to digitally map the city from a cyclist’s point of view. This summer, the high school cyclers will fan out across the […]

We all know that things go viral. Someone’s cat, or a dancing baby. Or that dress – the one that was either blue and black or white and gold. But where does a viral picture or meme start? What spreads one idea around the world and leaves another one dead on the screen? One researcher […]

A team at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, has discovered 25 potential new antibiotics, all of them derived from soil microbes. One of them, teixobactin, is effective against both tuberculosis and MRSA. The drug is being developed by NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals and should go into patient trials within two years. Prof Kim Lewis, of Northeastern University, […]

Mavrck and Tablelist are among the top startup companies making a meteoric rise in Boston, as they have both secured substantial funding (Tablelist has raised $2M and Mavrck $3.1M) and partnered with major players such as Yelp. Both startups were launched in Northeastern’s venture accelerator program IDEA — one of the many members of Boston’s […]

Researchers in Boston have made a literally ground-breaking discovery, which could lead to the development of a new generation of antibiotics. The BBC’s Fergus Walsh has been talking to members of the team at Northeastern University, who are creating new drugs by cultivating individual bacterial cells from samples of ordinary soil.

The Cigna mission was the pilot project of the Cultural Agility Leadership Lab, or CALL, based at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business and the brainchild of Paula Caligiuri, a professor of international business and strategy. The lab, launched last fall with a $100,000 from the university’s Darla and Fred Brodsky Fund for International Initiatives, […]

Conductor Gil Rose is artistic director of Monadnock Music Festival in Peterborough, N.H., three-time Grammy Award nominee, a professor at Northeastern University, and founder of two opera companies, Boston Modern Orchestra Project Boston Modern Opera project and Odyssey Opera. You’ll find him on the podium today at 3 p.m. conducting Vaughan Williams’s “Sir John in […]

If you think you can find the lowest prices by shopping online, think again. Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston have confirmed what many online shoppers have long suspected: major online retailers are charging customers different prices and products based on their online profiles.

A recent Pew Research Center report found some 30 percent of Americans get at least some of their news from Facebook.  But media groups have been struggling with the shift to digital from print, both in terms of delivering relevant articles to readers and in getting ad revenue from their online services. Some in the […]

Executive Director Dan Lebowitz of The Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University takes something of an opposite view. He says the NFL is turning Deflategate into what he calls “Deflectgate.” “It’s trying to make the public… think about the League in terms of the integrity of its game, and take the […]