A way of opening dialogue comes across the Al di qua del ponte, as well as other innumerous messages of multicultural diversity, communication and mutual understanding. I remember when I was studying in Boston, the ISSI team — the international student and scholar institute at Northeastern University — instilled passion for cultures, education oriented to […]

Research Digest compiled several studies on the psychology of first impressions, and we’ve highlighted five of the best ways to instantly appear competent. When you first meet someone, always look them in the eye. A study by Northeastern University asked participants to watch videos of strangers talking to each other for the first time and […]

According to security experts, the major concern at U.S. ports is not the terminal operators themselves — or which nation owns them — but who screens the containers before they enter the U.S. seaport. “Smuggling things onto containers happens at various stages — those who load the trucks, the trains, the ships — until the […]

Soon after Cordero’s return, two engineers appeared at his door. One, Ingrid Y. Padilla, was a slight, wry hydrologist from a west-coast campus of the university; the other, Akram N. Alshawabkeh, an expert in groundwater remediation, came from Northeastern University. They told Cordero that Puerto Rico has one of the nation’s highest concentrations of Superfund […]

The 3-D groundswell is being embraced by academia, as well. Northeastern University, for instance, opened a comprehensive 3-D printing, 3-D scanning, and laser-cutting lab as part of its library system last year, and is developing coursework around it.

Entrepreneurs approach student internships with a mixture of interest and dread. They like the generally low cost of an internship — modest stipend levels or no cost at all — but they are challenged by how to productively engage an intern. The last thing that a busy entrepreneur can afford is a babysitting job. For […]

In the past 10 years, 469 murders — 75 percent of all the city’s killings — have been committed with a firearm. These are also the most difficult crimes for Boston police to solve, with suspects identified in only 174 of those cases, for a bleak average of 37 percent. The city’s clearance rate overall […]

The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits punishments deemed to be cruel and unusual, a standard to which capital punishment does not rise, at least according to the U.S. Supreme Court. But with yet another botched execution, the third over the past six months, the cruelty is becoming pretty usual. It was disturbing enough that […]

“Boston is a great place to study Thomas Jefferson’s gardens at Monticello,” says Jane Amidon, associate dean for graduate programs and research, professor and director of Northeastern University’s Urban Landscape Program, and instructor for MFA’s third and final “Great American Gardens ” session on Jefferson’s love before he became a politician. “At the Massachusetts Horticultural […]

There’s a stereotype that women are chattier than men. New research, however, finds that female loquaciousness only comes out in certain situations. For example, women in the study were more talkative in a structured group assignment setting, but there was hardly any gender difference in the way men and women socialized in informal break-time conversation. […]

In most of the cases it decides, the Supreme Court is what it presents itself as: a court of law. The justices apply preexisting rules and standards set forth, for example, in the Constitution and statutes passed by Congress, to a dizzying array of human and institutional behaviors. But in many highly contested cases, especially […]

In the 10 years since the Massachusetts School Building Authority was created, the agency has distributed $10.5 billion to help build and renovate hundreds of schools to improve the quality of education around the state, but the funding also has played a significant role in creating jobs and generating tax revenue, a new report shows. […]