These days, Northeastern University is welcoming back more than just students to campus. As part of a new “public arts initiative,” the school will be transforming portions of its buildings, walls, and interior and exterior open spaces into makeshift canvases for rotating art installations created by students, faculty, and artists from around the world. To […]

Northeastern University students will have the opportunity to co-op with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute thanks to a $1.15 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The school has been competing for years to receive funding from the federal group, hoping to train undergraduates in nanomedicine, the science of using molecules to more precisely deploy cancer […]

US officials confirmed on Tuesday that the US has begun reconnaissance flights over Syria, suggesting the ground is being prepared for missile strikes once targets have been identified. Some analysts argue that not only must an air campaign be carried out in Syria but it should be conducted in cooperation with the Assad regime. “Not […]

Sullivan County had long garnered a reputation as a place of wellness, often being quite literally what the doctor ordered for those unable to properly convalesce in the city, but the advent of air conditioning made it less of a necessity—especially for vacationers with smaller budgets—to escape the Big Smoke for breezier weather. Dr. Phil […]

The horrifying execution of journalist James Foley raises an uncomfortable if familiar question: Is there anything to be gained by watching the video of his beheading at the hands of an ISIS terrorist? It’s a question that I explored 12 years ago, when Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was similarly murdered. I searched for […]

The beheading of James Foley by a man whom UK intelligence agencies are close to identifying as a British national didn’t just reveal the brutality of how ISIS operates. It raised questions about why a large number of young Muslim men from across Europe have joined the ranks of the Sunni militant group. Thousands of […]

One of the strangest of the ways that Islamic State has forced us to rethink the Middle East is also one of the saddest: There are now common line of thought that says the United States could ally itself with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime to fight the extremist group also known as ISIS […]

CNN’s Hala Gorani speaks to Professor Max Abrahms about the possibility of the U.S. working with Syria to fight ISIS.

During a White House press briefing last week, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes was clear on the administration’s ultimate goal with regard to the Islamic State: “Absolutely, in the long term our objective would be to see an organization like ISIL defeated,” said Rhodes. He wasn’t the only administration official pledging the group’s ultimate […]

What we do daily has a profound effect on our lives. A good daily reading ritual can keep you informed about the world and your industry. But if you’re a curious person with limited time, how can you make the most of the minutes you have? MAKE PEACE WITH INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE. You will never read […]

With summer drawing to a close, children across America are engaged in age-old back-to-school rituals. For many, the start of school also involves something newer — active shooter drills, possibly even with fake blood and blanks fired in the hallway for added realism. Countless schools have adopted these simulations, voluntarily or by legislative mandate. The […]

Exports play an important role in the Massachusetts economy. The more than $25 billion a year in goods that local companies sell in foreign markets each year supports 70,000, or about one in four manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts, according to Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University. In an interview, Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred […]