It’s small, but this exclusive club is always looking to expand. The annual challenge is finding worthy candidates. Northeastern gets its chance on Thursday. The Huskies are hoping to join schools such as Mercer, Harvard, Bucknell, and Weber State and become the most recent No. 14 seed to upset a No. 3 in the NCAA […]

Most Boston-area drivers will spend the next couple of months dodging the craters left behind by our brutal winter. But a team of engineers at Northeastern University will go looking for them, in a large white van. Crammed with GPS, radar, digital cameras, and microphones, this truck is equipped to detect and record every pothole […]

Max Abrahms, a professor at Northeastern University who studies IS and terrorism, said extremist organizations will continue to adapt as governments step up counterintelligence efforts. IS, a Sunni militant group, carries out car bombings in Shiite areas of Baghdad partly to fan sectarian violence and increase the “bloodletting between the Sunnis and the Shiites in order to […]

Meanwhile, many experts point out that — even if funding for racist publishers, blogs and bands dries up — those publishers, blogs and bands are unlikely to stop their work. Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University, points out that white supremacists and other fringe political groups haven’t been dissuaded even by lawsuits that cost […]

Northeastern University Law Professor Daniel Medwed who has expertise in the area of criminal law and is a renowned scholar on wrongful convictions, says the “writings are very important to the prosecution because they show Tsarnaev’s  state of mind in the aftermath of the crime.” He says the reason why the defense wants to introduce […]

One of the most important members of the NCAA Tournament-bound Northeastern basketball team hasn’t taken a shot, made a pass, or even set foot on the court. Max Plansky is a 16-year-old from Beverly who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when he was 9 months old. He uses a wheelchair and, according to his father, […]

Recent Northeastern University research showed that both taking a meditation course in-person with an experienced mindfulness instructor and practicing meditation for two weeks using the iPhone app Headspace had similarly positive outcomes for boosting compassion and altruistic behavior. The compelling research suggests that this finding might also extend to other important benefits of meditation, including […]

Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and member of the Council of Foreign Relations, believes that the omission signals a “quid pro quo” between Washington and Tehran. “I think that we are looking at a quid pro quo, where Iran helps us with counter-terrorism and we facilitate their nuclear ambitions and cut […]

The NCAA Tournament’s all-inclusive nature is part of what makes it so appealing to the mass audience, said Alan Zaremba, associate professor of communications studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “You don’t even have to know what basketball’s like. It’s kind of being part of the culture and part of the buzz to fill […]

The news bulletin from CBS screamed out of the loudspeakers at 6:04 last evening, and that’s when Northeastern University’s Cabot Center got so loud that if there was anything going on down the street at Symphony Hall, it would have been just too bad. It was official: The Huskies, getting their first taste of March […]

In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on several occasions to eliminate certain draconian punishments for juvenile offenders. Yet, the matter of trial jurisdiction is just as critical. There are many drawbacks to trying kids as adults, and few advantages. The juvenile justice system is predicated on the principle of rehabilitation, for which […]

For the first time since 1991, the Northeastern Huskies are going dancing after beating top seed William & Mary in the Colonial Athletic Association final. After winning just 11 games a season ago, head coach Bill Coen turned his club into a 23-game winner this time around, thanks to a sound offense that can shoot […]