Demolition began on Northeastern University’s historic Matthews Arena this week. The university said the process will take about three months and the demolition will make way for a brand new arena, scheduled to be finished in 2028.

I recently talked with Lance Eaton, Senior Associate Director of AI and Teaching & Learning at Northeastern University and writer of AI + Education = Simplified. We traded ideas about what’s actually working.

The study was published on Jan. 21 and conducted by researchers from institutions including Massachusetts General Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine and Northeastern University.

Timothy Hoff, professor of management health care systems at Northeastern University, said in an interview with Northeastern Global News in 2024 that retailers are facing challenges in healthcare.

“Location becomes a strategy.” It’s a strategy that Boston’s Northeastern University has employed for about 15 years, perhaps the first selective institution to do so. 

For more than a decade, researchers have known that gambling is an addictive substance, “just like heroin, opioids, tobacco, alcohol, and cocaine,” said Harry Levant, director of gambling policy with the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University to Boston.com on Wednesday. 

“That might have been an example of a particularly stupid, dangerous, unfounded, statement but it’s still, I think, less subject to review than what’s at issue here,” said Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University who was involved in submitting an amicus brief in the case. 

Last week, a team of researchers from Northeastern University and their colleagues posted the results of a research project in which they stress-tested several OpenClaw agents.

Women, by contrast, are more likely to weigh values, ethics, and long-term implications before jumping in. A Northeastern University study supports this: women are 11 percent more likely than men to see AI’s risks as outweighing its benefits – a gap that disappears when economic outcomes are clear.

Researchers at Northeastern University found that pregnancy appears to dampen the brain’s learned response to threatening or stressful experiences.

Moneesh Upmanyu at Northeastern University in the US, and one of his PhD students, were awarded a patent last year for a design that uses origami to make strong but foldable wing structures.

“Presidents often find their promises often conflict with something else they also care about,” said William Mayer, a Northeastern University political scientist.