What secrets do ballet dancers hold for people with disabilities? Or for robots?
By Khalida Sarwari Human movement fascinates Dagmar Sternad. In January, she spent a day watching ballet dancers prance around her lab, with stickers on their joints. …
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‘Star Wars’ inspired him to fight disease
By Khalida Sarwari He didn’t know it then, but the first time Minhal Ahmed discovered microbiota, he was 7. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace was …
Here’s what these professors say is missing from the national debate over blackface
By Khalida Sarwari In the ongoing national debate over the topic of blackface, spurred recently by the revelations about Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Attorney General …
How one student turned her academic struggles into a million-dollar business
By Khalida Sarwari It’s not unusual for Jessica Sun to make kids cry. At the speech and debate camps she runs every summer, the Northeastern …
Here’s a college classroom where it’s nothing but fun and games
By Khalida Sarwari At the peak of its popularity, “Fortnite,” the wildly successful online video game, came with a warning on its loading screen discouraging …