Ten years ago, literary scholar Carla Kaplan released an acclaimed edition of the letters of Zora Neale Hurston. In the course of researching Hurston’s life, Kaplan became curious about the white women who were in Harlem in the same period as Hurston, women who risked family exile and social ostracism to be part of the […]

U.S. households with income of more than $150,000 a year have an unemployment rate of 3.2 percent, a level traditionally defined as full employment. At the same time, middle-income workers are increasingly pushed into lower-wage jobs. Many of them in turn are displacing lower-skilled, low-income workers, who become unemployed or are forced to work fewer […]

A Northeastern University doctoral student from Attleboro gave a special gift to some orphaned children in Ecuador during a semester break trip earlier this year. Mike Angelo, 23, a 2008 graduate of Attleboro High School, traveled with 15 other Northeastern students and two professors to the For His Children orphanage in Quito, Ecuador. While there, […]

“We end up paying a huge price for all of this because these kids don’t earn, they don’t pay taxes, they stay at home, they don’t get married,” said Andrew Sum, a Northeastern University economist. “It’s not just the kids that lose. It’s all of us as a country that lose.”

Other goals, like attending college, have been deferred for now. Boston Ballet has a partnership with Northeastern University that allows company dancers to complete degrees at a pace that accommodates their rigorous rehearsal and performance schedules. All three of the roommates say they’d be interested in attending Northeastern if they are drafted into the company. […]

Geoff Trussell had just hired six new faculty, and the 50-year-old facilities at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center just weren’t going to cut it. So the university built its Nahant campus some brand new ones. Over the last year, walls have been knocked down and built up to turn obsolete and rundown classroom space into laboratories […]

McKenzie has been removed from the team “until further notice,” Brown said. The decision to bring McKenzie on conveyed a complicity with rape culture, said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.

Until now, every person who utilized the technology has had the same voice — which sounds deep and computerized. But thanks to VocaliD, that’s changing. “You see a 3-year-old girl using that voice, and then you see a 40-year-old male using that voice, and it’s odd. It can’t really be an extension of the individual […]

In modern times, skepticism has spiked with every new example of cheating, such as the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Even as our culture elevates athletes to superstar status and follows their every move, we are quick to watch them fall from grace and then spread real-time gossip about what happened, said Dan Lebowitz, executive director […]

There’s also a cultural resistance that stems, understandably, from the health and safety of research subjects’ being the boards’ utmost concern. IRBs have required privacy protections for decades, but even today, if you take a standard training on conducting human research, data security is an afterthought, said David M.J. Lazer, a professor of political and […]

This gap in education engagement has dire economic consequences for boys. A 2011 Brookings Institution report quantifies the economic decline of the median male: For men ages 25 to 64 with no high school diploma, median annual earnings have declined 66 percent since 1969; for men with only a high school diploma, wages declined by 47 percent. […]

The “Journal Rappe” program shows just how innovative hip-hop artists remain in Senegal, says Murray Forman, an associate professor of media and screen studies at Northeastern University. “They’re taking it to some different place, a place we don’t commonly see hip-hop which I think is fun and exciting,” he said after watching their programs online. […]