In his 1910 essay on “The American Boy“, Theodore Roosevelt wrote about the value of athletics, specifically football, and the lessons that sports can teach. He said, “in life, as in a football game, the principal to follow is: hit the ground hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.” Words to […]

“There is a clear and present danger that sequestration will damage America’s pre-eminence in scientific research and higher education over the long-term,” Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun, said on behalf of The Science Coalition in a press release. “Given the impact we already have seen, we urge the members of the House and Senate who are negotiating funding […]

CITIES CAN BE TOUGH places to get around—and Boston is among the toughest, but it’s also ripe for a solution. Call it HUBus. Here’s the picture: As you linger over your morning coffee, your phone beeps to tell you the HUBus is two minutes away. But there’s another one in 10 minutes, and you decide to […]

Professor Barbara Okun, who teaches counseling psychology at Northeastern University and has a private practice, says a client recently told her about going on a trip with other mothers. “She said these other women were on the phone seven or eight times a day with their college kids,” says Okun. “I had to say it’s […]

In addition, housing is limited. The new arrivals are competing with middle- and lower-income families for the older, existing housing stock, said Barry Bluestone, the director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “The prices of triple-deckers are going through the roof now,” he said, and longtime residents are being […]

FORTY-FOUR years before German Chancellor Angela Merkel discovered that the National Security Agency had been listening to her cellphone calls, President Nixon met with South Korean President Park Chung-Hee to discuss a substantial boost in American military aid to thwart a worrisome threat from North Korea. That August 1969, summit meeting in San Francisco was as […]

Boston may be known for its concentration of top-notch colleges and universities. ButRalph C. Martin II, the general counsel at Northeastern University, worries about the repercussions if city officials take that position for granted. Students flock to Boston today, Martin said, but there’s no guarantee that will continue. “In order for (higher education) to continue […]

4. Mapping America’s emotional state Psychiatrists aren’t running machine learning on their patients’ Twitter profiles – yet. But large volumes of tweets can be used to make assertions about the happiness of large groups of people. A sentiment analysis run by Alan Mislove of Northeastern University in Boston measured every public tweet posted between September […]

STATE OFFICIALS ARE seeking to expand commuter rail and extend the Green Line even as ridership figures indicate suburbanites are slowly abandoning the existing public transit options available to them. The troubling trend line has transit advocates worried. Most of them say deteriorating service is to blame for the downturn in ridership, while others speculate that […]

The state economy grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate from July through September, according to the report. The national economy expanded at 2.8 percent rate during the same period, the US Commerce Department reportedThursday. “It’s just underlying, pent-up demand for housing and other things that consumers and businesses want and need to buy, which is […]

According to a most recent data culling by the folks at Northeastern University, higher education is among the United States’ top service sector exports. In fact, numbers indicate that International students contribute more than $21 billion to the U.S. economy through their expenditures on tuition and living expenses on American universities. The visual also showcases record growth in […]

“There are yellow flags . . . but there are a lot of people who have yellow flags, and most of these people who have risk characteristics don’t actually commit acts of violence,” said James Alan Fox, a criminology and law professor at Northeastern University. But, he added, “The problem is it’s virtually impossible to distinguish between […]