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National! Punctuation! Day! Is! Here!

It’s National Punctuation Day: a day for people who care about periods, em dashes, colons, and Oxford commas to take…

by Sophia Fox-Sowell September 24, 2018

In this file photo, Northeastern celebrates its 114th Commencement on May 6, 2016.

Commencement student speaker deadline approaching

Calling all seniors: The deadline to apply to deliver the undergraduate student address at Northeastern’s 115th Commencement is Friday. Here’s what you need to know.

by Jason Kornwitz March 7, 2017

Washington Post editor Marty Baron’s opening remarks at ‘The Future of Media’ event

Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and digital media innovator Marty Baron discussed the future of media on March 31 during the latest installment of Northeastern’s “The Future…

by News@Northeastern April 4, 2016

03/22/16 - BOSTON, MA. - Iris Berent, Professor of Psychology, gives the 52nd Annual Robert D. Klein Lecture held in the Raytheon Amphitheater at Northeastern University on March 22, 2016. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Take 5: What makes human language so special?

In the 52nd annual Robert D. Klein Lecture on Tuesday, psychology professor Iris Berent argued that human language is a product of a specialized biological system, that we are are innately equipped with a language instinct.

by Jason Kornwitz March 24, 2016

Did you know you were lip-reading today?

In new research, Northeastern professor David Lewkowicz delivered some intriguing findings about bilingual babies’ lip-reading. But he also says adults do quite a bit of lip-reading every day, probably without even knowing it.

by Greg St. Martin February 13, 2015

Study: Bilingual infants lip-read more than monolingual infants

The findings have big implications for understanding how infants acquire speech and language and could play a role in treating and diagnosing children with communicative and learning disorders like autism, says Northeastern professor David J. Lewkowicz.

by Greg St. Martin February 11, 2015

Language study offers new twist on mind-body connection

Research from Northeastern professor of psychology Iris Berent and her colleagues finds that spoken language and motor systems are intricately linked—though not in the way that has been widely believed.

by Greg St. Martin February 2, 2015