At Northeastern University, assistant professor of pharmacy Ganesh Thakur received a $2 million federal grant in September from the National Eye Institute to create a compound to treat glaucoma, an eye disease that blinds 60 million people worldwide. Thakur’s goal is to design a drug that mimics marijuana’s ability to reduce the fluid pressure inside […]

Barry Bluestone, a professor of political economy and director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, agreed that the market is not behaving normally. Part of it is the lingering effects of economic and housing downturn of the last decade; prices are still far below their pre-recession levels in many […]

Humans have a powerful drive to know about other people’s lives. It’s the fascination — often seasoned liberally with schadenfreude — behind a welter of magazines and television programs that have made celebrity gossip a more than $3 billion industry. “Your life may be more glamorous than mine,” we might think as we scan the […]

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.