A team of researchers at Northeastern University recently analyzed how e-commerce sites tailor prices to specific shoppers based on their digital habits and demographics, such as their ZIP code. According to the study, presented last week at the Internet Measurement Conference in Vancouver, major e-commerce sites including Home Depot, Walmart, and Hotels.com list online prices […]

For legal academics who want to support social movements pursuing rights-based global health justice and a scaled-up up response to the global HIV/Aids pandemic, there has been no organisation more instrumental to those goals than the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). From organising the march for universal access to treatment at the 2000 International Aids Conference […]

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s op-ed in the New York Times calls upon Congress to change the nation’s laws to adopt a federal framework that allows states to authorize betting on professional sports. It is a courageous position for a sports commissioner to take. To recognize the reality that hundreds of billions of dollars are bet […]

Ash famously engineered a renaissance in Chelsea, which was in state receivership for much of the ’90s. But can he create any jobs? I’ll leave it to Barry Bluestone, an economics professor at Northeastern University, to answer that question. Bluestone spent a year working with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to analyze 20 struggling […]

In exploring potential research collaborators, he came acrossHeather Clark, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, who was working on numerous biosensor-related projects at the nanotech scale. Skipwith contacted her with a request for a postdoc appointment and a collaboration was born, as Clark immediately realized the value they […]

Animals that subsist on wood usually need help. Studies of termite guts, as well as wood-eating fish and beetles, have found specialized bacteria that break down the tough plant materials the animals themselves can’t. Even humans and other omnivores and carnivores get a digestive hand from microbes. The abundant bugs in our intestines play a […]

Choosing between college education and real world experience is a false preference binary now that universities are adopting the co-op model whereby students can alternate between academic semesters and work experience. Many students appreciate diversifying their time in school with internships because it rounds out their academic experience and is a bonus on resumes. Northeastern […]

At the bottom of Howie Carr’s column in today’s Boston Herald is this: “Howie will be back on the radio Monday at 3 p.m.” SinceCarr had just been released from WRKO (AM 680), I figured he was going to do at least a temporary stint at the Herald’s Internet radio station — maybe even with […]

Sanjeev Mukerjee, who heads Northeastern University’s Center for Renewable Energy Technology, will be among the panelists Friday at the Charlotte Chamber’s annual Energy Summit. Known as “the battery guru,” Mukerjee says renewable energy, with its on-and-off cycles, won’t reach its potential until there’s a way to store energy.

Patricia Illingworth, the coauthor of Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, says that the new agreement suggests that the Fisher family is taking back its original gift. “Typically, philanthropy is understood as the giving (and sometimes volunteering) for the love of humanity,” Illingworth wrote in an e-mail. “In this case the Fisher family delivered $10 […]

Northeastern University’s endowment posted a strong 16.8 percent return in the most-recent fiscal year, just one of the school’s financial highlights during an otherwise challenging stretch for the higher-education sector as a whole. The investment performance corresponded with a 7 percent increase in Northeastern’s net tuition revenue, or the amount it generates from student tuition […]

“Oh, you teach online classes? They’re a lot easier, right?” The notion that online courses are inherently lesser than their traditional face-to-face counterparts is a perception that exists outside the classroom, and it’s one I’ve seen among students. There’s trouble from within, too: In a recent survey of 2,799 online instructors and academic technology administrators, […]