Many students who arrive at college campuses today are familiar with lockdown drills, which they learn in high school. But some critics say lockdowns are heavy-handed when used on sprawling, hard-to-secure college campuses, where student life is much less regulated, crime rates tend to be low, and mass shootings remain extremely rare. “I don’t think […]

The information sector, which includes Internet, data processing, and telecommunications firms, has gained 3,000 jobs from its prerecession peak. And professional and business services, which include many research, scientific, and information technology positions, have 11,800 more jobs than before the recession. In any economy undergoing such labor market turmoil and shifts, said Northeastern University economist […]

“Everyone is always asking ‘Why are these mass killings increasing?’ ” says criminologist James Alan Fox, professor of criminology at Northeastern University. “They are not.” The perception of a dramatic increase is understandable given the attention killings receive, says Fox, professor of criminology at Northeastern University and co-author of Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.

“It may be that people embraced the moment as a teaching moment, as a life-changing moment, as a way to sort of step outside themselves and be more self-aware about their actions and move from that point on to be better,” said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport […]

In March, House Speaker Robert DeLeo established an advisory group to study ways to strengthen the state’s gun laws. That group, led by Northeastern University researcher and associate dean Jack McDevitt, has met regularly in recent months and said Friday it will submit its recommendations by year’s end. “We took a comprehensive look” at ways […]

Physicist Stephen Hawking has long dealt with a degenerative disease that leaves him unable to speak. Instead, he uses a speech synthesizer that bellows out his words in a now-recognizable robotic male voice. It works for Hawking–he’s an adult male. But similar robotic voices are used for little girls and all the other 2.5 million […]

The total amount of sequestration cuts in Massachusetts is hard to gauge, because spending reductions were often spread out geographically among a variety of contractors and subcontractors that did work for local companies but were not necessarily located here, budget specialists say. But Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist at Northeastern University, said he has no doubt […]

Dr. William Robertson Northeastern University An associate professor at Northeastern University, Dr. William Robertson is affiliated both with the College of Computer and Information Science and The College of Engineering. His interests include anomaly detection, program analysis, security of electronic voting, and Web security. He’s had many conference papers published and articles that have been included in […]

 Take a cue from your colleagues  If you’re the new kid on the block, follow the example set by seasoned vets when it comes to gifting and don’t make any purchases until you’ve got a firm grasp on office culture. As Lynne Sarikas, director of Northeastern University’s MBA Career Center, puts it: “It is important to […]

Saturday will mark the one-year anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting that tragically claimed the lives of 20 young children and six staff members. While the local townsfolk opted not to hold any public observances, Gov. Dannel Malloy has asked that churches across the state ring their bells 26 times, once for each victim of the massacre. […]

It’s almost the end of the fall semester, a time when students are inordinately focused on one singular number: their final grade. I fear that even as they construct their final project, their writing e-portfolios, they are so concerned with the grade that they miss out on seeing the best parts: their growth over the […]

There are 2.5 million people in the U.S. with severe speech disorders, and some 40 percent of them use speech devices to express themselves. But those devices offer an extremely limited selection of computerized voices. “We wouldn’t dream of fitting a little girl with the limb of a grown man — so, why then, a […]