…Tina Eliassi-Rad, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern and also a faculty of Northeastern’s Network Science Institute. Her work focuses on machine learning, a centerpiece of Al. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:cj82st26n/audio.mp3…
The Search For Hidden Particles
…team members for some of the key experiments and particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1882283z/audio.mp3 Download The Search For Hidden Particles Transcript for The Search For Hidden Particles…
The Secrets of Hollywood Storytelling [Rebroadcast and Update]
…other movie sound design, check out Bobette’s feature-length documentary, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound Website Download The Secrets of Hollywood Storytelling Transcript of The Secrets of Hollywood Storytelling…
Remaking the News
…commentary in both 2008 and 2009. Purchase Dan Kennedy’s new book, Return of the Moguls, here. Episode image by Matthew Modoono, Northeastern University Download Episode 17 Transcript of Episode 17…
Seeking Justice for Hidden Deaths
…in Massachusetts. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1881m39j/audio.mp3 Watch Murder in Mobile: A Documentary Film About Race, Murder, and One Family’s Search for the Truth 70 Years Later Download Episode 26 Transcript of Episode 26…
Seeking Justice for Hidden Deaths [Rebroadcast and Update]
…in Massachusetts. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80jm96v/audio.mp3 Watch Murder in Mobile: A Documentary Film About Race, Murder, and One Family’s Search for the Truth 70 Years Later Download Seeking Justice for Hidden Deaths Transcript…
The Road Back to Normal
…enormous tragedies. Northeastern University Global Resilience Institute’s Covid 19: How to be Safe and Resilient Guide https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80j329w/audio.mp3 Download The Road Back to Normal Transcript of The Road Back to Normal…
Diversifying Power
…Policy, and Director of Strategic Research Collaborations, Global Resilience Institute poses for a portrait on Sept. 24, 2020. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Download Diversifying Power Transcript of Diversifying Power…
Ethics and the Environment
…Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University, discusses environmental ethics on this episode, including how to save species (and which ones), and whether…
Controlling Killer Robots
…is also the vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, as a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1881q42g/audio.mp3 Transcript of Episode 30 Download Episode…
How We Respond to Disaster
How do people and cities respond during and after major disasters such as terrorist attacks or the destructive hurricanes so many communities have recently endured? Stephen Flynn, Professor of Political…
Inequality and Mental Health
…and Sociology and the Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1882404q/audio.mp3 Download Inequality and Mental Health Transcript of Inequality and Mental Health…
Engineering the Future: Boston’s Big Dig
…Institute of Technology and former Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation. Explore more about Fred and The Big Dig in this oral history from Northeastern’s Archives Download episode 16 Transcript of episode…
Data and Public Health
…a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the Digital Health Humanities. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80mt38j/audio.mp3 Watch the full panel here: https://youtu.be/mE6YYS-DDHs Transcript of Data and Public Health Download Data and Public Health…
Touch This Page
…Engineering, Sari is the co-creator of the Touch This Page project, opening February 1st in our library and three others in the Boston area. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1881m18s/audio.mp3 Download Episode 25 Transcript of…
The Urban Commons
…Dan has a new book out from Harvard University Press titled The Urban Commons: How Data and Technology Can Rebuild Our Communities. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1881k95p/audio.mp3 Download Episode 24 Transcript of Episode 24…
Election Day Special: Michael Dukakis
…Nations delegation of the Military Armistice Commission in Munsan, Korea. Dukakis began his political career as an elected Town Meeting Member in the town of Brookline. He was elected chairman…
Bridging the Academic-Public Divide Through Podcasts
…media coverage of research, podcasts present a unique opportunity to show the public how the expertise of the academy is relatable and valuable. This communication is especially important right now….
A New Way to Scan the Human Body
…is a Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Chemistry at Northeastern University. She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Michigan, and completed a postdoc in…
The Shifting Landscape of Music
…label. David maintains a law practice which concentrates in entertainment law, intellectual property, copyright, trademark, licensing, and new media. His clients include authors, publishers, record companies, recording artists, songwriters, composers,…
Inside the Pop Music World
…pop stars, and he has helped to create dozens of gold and platinum singles and albums. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80j098p/audio.mp3 Download Inside the Pop Music World Transcript of Inside The Pop Music World…
Addressing Neglected Diseases [Rebroadcast and Update]
…incentive for drug companies to treat them? And what will happen when a disease like Ebola suddenly becomes common here too? In this episode, Mike Pollastri helps us understand how…
Identity and Self-confidence
…this passage. This first-ever podcast crossover features the hosts of the Possible podcast. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80ms69b/audio.mp3 Transcript of Identity and Self Confidence Listen to Possible Podcast on Spotify Northeastern University’s LGBTQA Resource…
Hacking Life
…Reagle, an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, who just published the book, Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80hx34j/audio.mp3 Transcript of Hacking Life Download Hacking Life…
Interviewing Pop Stars
…been donated to the Northeastern University Library’s Archives and Special Collections, offering an exciting and rare glimpse into music history. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:9z9031236/audio.mp3 Download Interviewing Pop Stars Transcript of Interviewing Pop Stars…
The Plague Year
https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:ww72bc39w/audio.mp3 Artist Rene Gómez creates street art as part of an August 2020 community street painting day sponsored by Rhode Island Latino Arts. One of many items shared with the…
Connecting Through Stories
…can have a positive impact on our society and ourselves. We’re joined by Cara Solomon, Executive Director and founder of Everyday Boston, to help us comprehend how community events and…
Intellectual Property and Social Values
…“Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age.” https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80hw16d/audio.mp3 Download Intellectual Property and Social Values Transcript of Intellectual Property and Social Values Episode image by Daniel Foster…
How Tariffs Made Modern China
…Smuggling, traces the history of the black market in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80hz62x/audio.mp3 Download How Tariffs Made Modern China Transcript of How Tariffs Made Modern China…
How College Students Get the News
…is Alison Head, the Founder and Director of Project Information Literacy. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1881n12b/audio.mp3 Preorder The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World Download Episode 28 Transcript of episode 28…
Hashtag Activism
…there, slowly grew into a potent new form of activism. Brooke Foucault Welles and Moya Bailey join us on this episode to discuss their research surrounding Hashtag Activism. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80j4560/audio.mp3 Download…
Young Researchers on the Environment, Energy, and Cancer
Our first episode of 2021 features the winners of the Three-Minute Thesis Contest at Northeastern University, sponsored by the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering and the Northeastern University Library….
The Women Writers Project
…students and researchers to study in entirely new ways. Julia Flanders and Sarah Connell, Director and Assistant Director, respectively, of The Women Writers Project. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:ww72bb62g/audio.mp3 Download The Women Writers Project…
The Great News Divide
…and watched the same evening news programs; now many of us have completely separate sources of information, and news outlets have strayed far from the mass media that existed decades…
The Last Kings of Shanghai
…across the globe. But that still emerging future will also be an extension of China’s complex past, when other nations arrived on its shores with colonialism, capitalism, and once-distant cultures….
Tracing the Spread of Fake News
…research centers on social networks; governance, or how the patterns of institutional relations yield functional or dysfunctional systems; and technology and its use in communication. An authority on social networks,…
Privacy in the Facebook Age [Rebroadcast and Update]
…of the first and most significant moves to establish a new American privacy identity online, with strict obligations for companies that use the Internet to collect personal information. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1881z062/audio.mp3 Download…
The Web at 30
…instantly around the globe, and authors, artists, and the giant industries around them have reacted in excited, complicated and sometimes fearful ways. Joining us on episode 29 is Kyle Courtney,…
Fake News and the Next Generation
…iPhone was released, destined to become a constant companion with these new sources of information. What is next generation’s view of the news like? How good are they at separating…
Revealing the Human Mind
…Mind Lab, who has a book titled The Blind Storyteller coming out later this year. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:gm80hw863/audio.mp3 Download Revealing the Human Mind Transcript of Revealing the Human Mind Photo by Micah…
Sensing Behavior
…Goodwin, an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1882250d/audio.mp3 Download Sensing Behavior Transcript of Sensing Behavior…
Tracking the Invisible Infrastructure of Cities
…Design and Public Policy and leads the Information Design and Visualization graduate program. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:cj82qq01t/audio.mp3 You can purchase Waste is Information from MIT Press Download episode 7 Transcript of episode 7…
The Challenge of Automation
…Humankind, Machines, and the Future of Enterprise, about the impact of automation and AI, and how humans and ethics must remain central to these processes. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f18822227/audio.mp3 Download The Challenge of…
The Secrets of Hollywood Storytelling
…To learn more about Chewbacca’s voice and other movie sound design, check out Bobette’s feature-length documentary, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:cj82qp36q/audio.mp3 Download The Secrets of Hollywood Storytelling…
Self-Knowledge, Nanotech Sensors, and Hospital Flow
…not only are doing incredible, creative work but they have been recognized in this competition for their ability to explain their research to a general audience. We’ll look at an…
European Disunion [Rebroadcast and Update]
…unity of Europe, with Brexit being only the most recent example. Maia’s candid assessment was that Brexit was mostly a British, not a European, mess, and a giant one at…
Inventing Writing
…transition from a completely oral tradition to a specific written form, through the use of an entirely new set of characters created by one citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Ellen…
Enabling Engineering
…for granted. How do we design for that large part of the population with varying abilities? Featuring Waleed Meleis, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Waleed…
The Steamship Revolution
…bought and consumed? Two centuries ago this kind of radical transformation occurred on the high seas. Download episode 3 Transcript of episode 3 Steam Titans is published by Bloomsbury Press…
How We See
…Our guest on “How We See” is Ennio Mingolla, a Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northeastern University and the head of the Computational Vision Laboratory….
Addressing Neglected Diseases
…companies to treat them? And what will happen when a disease like Ebola suddenly becomes common here too? In this episode, Mike Pollastri helps us understand how to address these…
The Algorithms That Shape Our Lives
…College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University, who has used clever methods to analyze how the big internet companies work. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:cj82qv26h/audio.mp3 Download episode 8 Transcript of episode 8…
The Hidden Universe of Comics
…at Northeastern University and author multiple books, her most recent being Why Comics? You can purchase Why Comics from Harper Collins. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:cj82r0966/audio.mp3 Download episode 9 here Transcript of episode 9…
Designing for Diversity
Inside all computers are ones and zeros, a binary world that excels in calculation and speed, but has difficulty with nuance, uncertainty, and complexity. And too often, we humans use…
The Magic of Human Motion
…to move and acquire new skills. We’re joined by Dagmar Sternad, who is a Professor in the Departments of Biology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Physics here at Northeastern. Dagmar…
The Future of Energy
…energy industry and its finance and regulations, but has lived in and done field work in communities impacted by the energy industry. https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:cj82r329z/audio.mp3 Download episode 11 Transcript of episode 11…
The Shifting Landscape of Music [Rebroadcast and Update]
…trademark, licensing, and new media. His clients include authors, publishers, record companies, recording artists, songwriters, composers, performers, producers, recording studios, visual artists, e-business innovation companies, software and service providers, webcasters,…
The Evolution of Cities
80% of Americans now live in cities, which are areas of profound change, as well as great tension. How do cities change over time? How does planning, community input, social…
Privacy in the Facebook Age
Recently 50 million Facebook users had their personal information extracted and used for political and commercial purposes. In the wake of this scandal, we’ve all become much more aware of…
The Regeneration of Body Parts
…their complex and exciting research in plainspoken, succinct ways. Joining us on episode 23 are Anastasiya Yandulskaya, Brian Ruliffson, and Alex Lovely who are the winners of the 3 Minute…
European Disunion
…international affairs at Northeastern University. She is also currently a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Photo by Martin Hearn https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:f1881r85g/audio.mp3 Download Episode 31 Transcript of Episode 31…
The World Health Organization and Pandemics
…its role is during crises like the coronavirus. Summer Marion, a research fellow at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and a PhD candidate in political science at…