Resilience News

A group of robotics engineering students on Northeastern’s Boston campus is headed to Denmark later this month on a mission…

The Celtics used the increased stage created by any matchup with the Lakers and the presence of LeBron James to both educate, honor and commemorate the work of the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the holiday bearing his name, Monday at TD Garden.

Ted Landsmark is a man of many “ands” — he is the director of the Myra Kraft Open Classroom and…

The world watches anxiously as one of the worst economic and humanitarian crisis in modern history unfolds in Venezuela. For years, the South American country has experienced a downward spiral of mounting political unrest fueled by skyrocketing hyperinflation, food shortages and economic contraction. Although his predecessor Hugo Chaves initiated the crisis, Nicolás Maduro exacerbated it during his first term in office – sending the Venezuelan economy into freefall in 2013.

Following World War II and the onset of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the US undertook a series…

On March 21, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that it intended to ban all carry-on electronic devices larger…

Stephen Flynn, Chair of the National Academies of Sciences’ Committee on Assessing WMD Nuclear Terrorism and professor of political science…

Hacking events targeting banks and other businesses have grown in magnitude over the last several years, resulting in financial losses and reduced consumer confidence. These intrusions have impacted a variety institutions including an $81 million theft from the Bank of Bangladesh, which used $10 dollar routers, no firewalls, and relied almost entirely on the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) financial transaction system for its security. The illegitimate transactions have also been point of contention between the Bank of Bangladesh and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Federal Reserve contests that inquiries into the transactions were never answered, though the Bank of Bangladesh insists its employees followed protocol and argues that the five transactions should not have been approved.

Back in February, when the alarm and panic on the growing spread of the COVID-19 virus, the World Bank established…

After six years of running its 100 Resilient Cities Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the next step in its commitment to building a more resilient world: a multi-million dollar Climate and Resilience Initiative.

This is the time of the year when all of the crackpots with crystal balls (most of them cloudy or cracked as well) try to predict the future. I’m going to join that crowded club (some might say I’m a charter member!) but I’m going to focus on communities.

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, virtual forums have become the primary medium for conducting society's day-to-day operations. The most critical amongst these...