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Parade, which is available on the App Store and Google Play, collects events from student organizations, the athletics program, and academic departments on the Boston campus and displays them to users based on their preferred interests. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Want to know what’s happening on the Boston campus? There’s an app for that.

Northeastern students Josh Spicer and Carter Tune developed a one-stop shop for campus events to make it easier for students to join clubs, attend conferences, and cheer on the Huskies on the Boston campus.

by Irvin Zhang July 23, 2019

Aerial view of traffic jam. Photo by iStock.

Traffic congestion in the Bay Area is brutal. They want to help.

Five graduate students at Northeastern in Silicon Valley won first prize at a competition focused on finding solutions to reduce traffic in the Bay Area. Their idea: ease the bottleneck of traffic at schools when students are being dropped off in the morning.

by Greg St. Martin January 29, 2019

File photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Your dog is a genius. You just don’t realize it.

What do pets do all day while their owners are at work? If it were up to Northeastern alumnus Dan Knudsen, they’d be solving puzzles. Knudsen co-founded CleverPet, a puzzle game for cats and dogs that aims to reduce loneliness while pushing the bounds of what pet owners think their furry friends can do.

by Molly Callahan June 13, 2018

Closeup photo businessman working with generic design notebook. Online payments, banking, hands keyboard. Blurred background, film effect.

New web tool helps online shoppers detect price discrimination on e-commerce sites

Northeastern researchers created a web tool, launched on Monday, designed for desktop users searching on Google Chrome and meant to help people “better understand the prices they’re getting from e-commerce sites.”

by Greg St. Martin December 12, 2016

The mindfulness meditation app

Student-athletes face a unique set of stressors that can work to compromise their overall well-being, according to Peter Ward, PhD’19. After conducting a comprehensive literature…

by Jason Kornwitz April 7, 2016

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Want to know what’s happening on the Boston campus? There’s an app for that.

Traffic congestion in the Bay Area is brutal. They want to help.

Your dog is a genius. You just don’t realize it.

New web tool helps online shoppers detect price discrimination on e-commerce sites

The mindfulness meditation app

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