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The story behind the data on mass murder in the United States

Will ‘red flag’ gun laws prevent mass shootings?

Toni Morrison’s groundbreaking novels about black history and identity helped to advance issues of civil rights and racial justice. The author was the keynote speaker at an event at Northeastern University in 2013, and afterward, she met with families who’d lost a relative to racial violence. Photo by Mary Knox Merrill/Northeastern University
Society & Culture

Toni Morrison’s influence extends beyond literature in her chronicling of black history and identity

Society & Culture

How gender bias excludes women from international scientific collaboration

Toni Morrison ‘has done for the modern novel what Shakespeare did for theater’

Northeastern University launches national program to boost the number of women majoring in computing

Here’s why the second round of Democratic debates will be ‘an elimination round’

Business

From ballpoint pen to rolling pin: How a former consultant followed her passion and built the Cape Cod favorite, Amie Bakery

Want to build experiential learning into elementary schools? Ask the experts in Northeastern’s Network of Experiential Learning Teachers.

Remembering Harlan Lane, Northeastern professor and tireless advocate for the Deaf community

Health

Walk-in clinics are growing in popularity, but are they the same level of care as a doctor’s visit? New research from Northeastern University shows that we don’t really know.

On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, correcting the record of the Cold War Space Race to determine if we’ve entered Space Race 2.0