Others believe the list for a new police chief is short because there aren’t many qualified candidates. “So the population of people who might go for a job like New York are probably only coming from about 200 large police departments across the country,” says Jack Greene, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University. Even if […]

This anonymous list of advice for young men was a mid-nineteenth-century viral sensation, appearing in at least 28 newspapers, Northern and Southern, with datelines between 1851 and 1860. The list even made it all the way to Hawaii, and was published twice in Honolulu’s The Polynesian. A group of investigators at Northeastern University identified the list […]

As states raise their minimum wages, local officials are grappling with how to make their young populations less costly and more qualified to hire. Nationwide, unemployment for those ages 16 to 19 was 22.2 percent in October, compared with 7.3 percent for the overall population, according to Labor Department data. “This has been the worst decade for teenage employment […]

Northeastern University said it is slated to meet with Boston’s zoning officials Dec. 18 as the last step in the city’s approval process for the university’s institutional master plan and a $225 million science and engineering building. The proposed Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building is part of the university’s master plan approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority last […]

Northeastern University, which has one of the oldest co-op programs in the country, is a prime example. From 2006 to 2012, 90 percent of Northeastern grads were in full-time jobs or graduate school within nine months of commencement. Eighty-seven percent of graduates who were working had jobs related to their major. Of those, half had […]

Michael G. Bennett, an associate professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law, who was in the courtroom during the ruling, said, “Judge Rhodes seemed to be saying something that amounted to a defense of the collection.” A price tag on at least some of the pieces in the collection is expected soon. The […]

People may feel ashamed or afraid to talk about abuse, including the verbal kind, so the researchers from Northeastern University asked their older subjects to respond to questions by touching a computer screen. It gave them more privacy. They instructed these seniors to think about the person who helped them most with their care – […]

When freshman Justin Jones first joined the Northeastern University men’s rowing team, his coaches made a promise: in four years, they would send a crew to the Henley Royal Regatta, no matter what it took. That was in 2010. At the time, head coach John Pojednic and university athletic director Peter Roby’s pledge seemed a distant […]

The Scott Eatherton who has become one of the more efficient rebounders in college basketball was not the same person just a few years ago. Not according to the coach who knows him best. That 6-foot-9, 220-pound frame on Northeastern’s power forward, the one who held his own against Florida State and Georgetown in the Puerto […]

Past research has linked verbally aggressive parenting to changes in children’s brain development and to personality disorders later in life, researchers led by Ann Polcari write in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect. Polcari, from Northeastern University in Boston, and her colleagues wanted to see whether also receiving affection from parents would lessen those impacts. […]

Student enrollment in the humanities has also remained stable across the globe, relative to total enrollment numbers. “Some places — Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Turkey — have seen a substantial increase in the relative number of humanities degrees,” said Assistant Prof. Ben Schmidt at Northeastern University. Others, including the United States and Britain, had […]

“Release” meant dispose of. Records shed no light on the reasons. A handwritten notation in the Legal Aid Society file said that a high-ranking representative of the Police Department told lawyers that someone had issued an order to destroy the evidence in 1993. It is unclear who made the order before the case was even […]