When the U.S. Federal Reserve stops printing $80 billion a month to buy bonds, interest rates may jump, and that may stop the improvement in the U.S. housing industry and perhaps even trigger a recession, said Jeffery Born, a professor of finance at the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. “This fear has […]

A group of mechanical engineering students at Northeastern University are working on new technology for bicycles that aims to decrease fatalities among cyclists in urban cities. The project is called the Inter­ac­tive Bicy­clist Acci­dent Pre­ven­tion System — and informally known as the “smart bike.” The technology uses sensors that detect the distance of a bicycle to cars […]

Langton’s rise to Olympic status came almost too easily. He was a member of Northeastern University’s track and field team, graduating in 2005 as what he deemed a “pretty average sprinter” on a national stage. Running at a weight of 225 pounds during his collegiate career, it was only a matter of time, he said, […]

James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law, and public policy at Northeastern University, predicts that even if O’Brien were to go before the parole board to ask for parole release, he doubts it would ever happen. “It’s extremely slim. It’s rather difficult for murderers to get paroled on their first, even second attempt,” Fox said. […]

More than 80 college presidents, including several from Massachusetts, gathered at a White House summit Thursday, each bearing promises about what they will do to increase access for low-income and minority students. The meeting was part of an effort by President Obama and Michelle Obama to push educators to address the lack of opportunity for […]

“The difference between those five and the rest becomes greater,” said Peter Roby, athletic director at Northeastern University. “How do we maintain competitive opportunity for everybody and not just for those that are significantly different?” In an interview after the session, he proposed a new revenue-distribution model for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament—one that would […]

Yale University, for instance, committed to increasing by 50 percent the number of students it enrolls through QuestBridge, a nonprofit organization that that connects high-achieving low-income students to elite universities. Northeastern University will offer 30 new grants to cover the full demonstrated need for low-income students from Boston public high schools who live in neighborhoods surrounding […]

Killing or sickening large numbers of people through water contamination would not be easy. Someone would need access to a large amount of chemicals and be able to dump them in a sensitive spot, which would likely attract attention, said Stephen Flynn, director of the Center for Resilience Studies at Northeastern University. “It turns out […]

A new report on police traffic stops in Rhode Island says minorities are more likely than whites to be pulled over in a majority of communities, but less likely to get a ticket. Researchers at Northeastern University reviewed nearly 154,000 traffic stops made by 39 police agencies last year from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30. […]

Other attorneys interviewed by Fortune said the same. “Public accommodation” law, argues Roger Abrams, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, might offer one basis for a suit. As he puts it, “public accommodation… refers to a public enterprise that opens its doors to the public but is precluding others from ‘trading,’ that is, spending their money […]

But this case is less open-and-shut than scholars like Zick would like. Although the petitioners argue that the law is discriminatory because it allows clinic employees to approach and speak with patients in the zone, although they’re not permitted to discuss anything political. Martha Davis, a professor of law at Northeastern University, says there’s no […]

Some scholars think that ngrams and other data-mining approaches will win acceptance when scholars make use, in a single paper, of both big data and traditional textual analysis—which Aiden and Michel do not do. Ryan Cordell, an assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, calls this “zoomable reading.” In a recent project for Digital Humanities Quarterly, he […]