Northeastern University

The Khoury Office Hours app created by Sandbox, a student-led software developed group. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

This app helps students get more face time with professors

Transparency is the key to a new student-created office hours app that shows how many people are in line and provides estimated wait times. The app’s popularity has grown as students continue to navigate remote office hours.

by Hillary Chabot February 2, 2021

A new study by researchers from Northeastern University, Harvard University, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that certain foods are associated with a lower risk of developing coronary heart disease. Data visualization by Albert-László Barabási, BarabasiLab 2020.

Make a heart-healthy resolution this year

A new study by researchers from Northeastern University, Harvard University, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that certain foods—including wine, yogurt, carrots, peanuts, breakfast cereal, grapes, and raisins—lower the risk of developing coronary heart disease.

by Molly Callahan January 3, 2021

Assistant music professor Psyche Loui and assistant psychology professor Ajay Satpute are asking if the phenomenon that makes music undesirable to some people could also be what impairs social bonding. Student Kieran McVeigh demonstrates how headphones will be used during this study. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

What people who don’t like music might tell us about social interaction

About 5 percent of people don’t like music. After tracking some of them down, Northeastern professors Psyche Loui and Ajay Satpute will study how this phenomenon might relate to struggles with social interaction—and teach us better ways to treat it.

by Aria Bracci August 8, 2019

Psyche Loui, an assistant professor of creativity and creative practice at Northeastern, is studying how music could be used to help people focus better or recover certain faculties that were compromised by memory loss. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

So you love music. It cares for you, too.

Psyche Loui, an assistant professor at Northeastern who studies how music affects the brain and the body, knows some people need help focusing and others are struggling with the precursors of dementia. A possible solution for both? The right type of song.

by Aria Bracci June 12, 2019

April in a flash

Cute dogs. Lawn games. Music on the Quad. Here, in less than 30 seconds, is what happened on the Boston campus in April.

by Cam Sleeper and Glenn Pike May 6, 2019

Here’s what Boston looked like after a deadly wave of molasses swallowed the North End

Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood, which killed 21 people in Boston’s North End when a storage tank ruptured and…

by Gregory Grinnell and January 15, 2019

Raya Kaplan, an emergency room technician on co-op at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, saved the life of a patient who was choking on a turkey sandwich. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

How to save a life

Raya Kaplan was making the rounds in the emergency room of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center when she spotted a patient whose face was quickly turning blue. The closest nurse was at the other end of the hallway, and every second counted. Kaplan, an emergency room technician on co-op from Northeastern, didn’t waste any time.

by Molly Callahan July 5, 2018