Two such proven leaders, Mary Galligan and Stephen Flynn, recently spoke at Deloitte University on the topic of making decisions under pressure to an assembled group of technology executives. Galligan is a retired senior-ranking FBI Special Agent in Charge who supervised some of the FBI’s largest and most high-profile investigations—including the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. She recently […]

The U.S. civil rights movement was one of our country’s most important democratizing efforts. But the United States continues to grapple with how to acknowledge and understand the uglier aspects of its undemocratic past. Scholarship has mostly analyzed Jim Crow’s undemocratic nature by focusing on black disenfranchisement. The coercion and violence that enforced political disenfranchisement […]

A record-breaking cold front is moving through the center of the country and here’s one surprising consequence of temperatures as low as minus-fifty: It’s nearly impossible under those conditions to make a snowball. This is according to a fun post on the “physics of a snowball” that ran last week on the Northeastern University research blog. There, […]

But which year was the biggest transformational year of them all? Northeastern University historian Ben Schmidt plotted out the years used in the titles of dissertation tracked by the American Historical Association for the last 120 years, and came up with the graph below:

Maria Stein, associate vice president of Northeastern University’s cooperative-education and career-development programs, said her school can’t produce enough students trained in “big data analytics,” or using computing power to sift, sort, and compile massive amounts of data that can help corporations understand customers and expand their businesses. Such tech jobs usually require a software development […]

At noon today, he smiled broadly, again and again, as a throng of senior citizens pressed forward, angling to pose for a photo with him. In the afternoon, he clapped his hands, keeping time with a rousing church choir. He bowed his head as dozens of local clergy members — Catholic and Protestant, Muslim, Jewish […]

Peter Stokes is executive director of postsecondary innovation in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. He’s supportive of the concept behind badges, and thinks there are no real technical obstacles to making them work. But Stokes remains skeptical of badges having a major impact on higher education, at least for now. “The big […]

Walter Robinson, a former investigative reporter at the Boston Globe who is now a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, said state lawmakers shouldn’t need a special commission to tell them their actions should be subject to public scrutiny. “It has been 233 years since the ratification of the Massachusetts Constitution and its Declaration of Rights, which […]

Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern University, said so many variables are at play when examining homicides that it’s “almost impossible to give a definitive explanation for the dramatic decline.” But he said the aging population definitely makes a difference. “There’s a larger number of older people, the baby boomers […]

Two Chicago area players were named Wednesday to the 21-member U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team that has become the favorite to win the gold medal next month in Sochi, Russia. They are forward Kendall Coyne of Palos Heights, a Northeastern University junior, and high-scoring defenseman Megan Bozek of Buffalo Grove, who won NCAA titles at […]

Stephanie Pollack, associate director at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said lawmakers’ lack of urgency to make the commuter tax urgent may be attributed to a perception that it affects only wealthier commuters. “It makes Congress just think, well, it doesn’t affect that many people, or it affects people on commuter […]

The effects of the chronic issues stemming from sequestration and the acute problems that accompanied the shutdown will probably continue to be felt by scientists for years to come. “Given the impact we already have seen, we urge the members of the House and Senate who are negotiating funding for FY 2014 and beyond to end sequestration, […]