A Beverly startup working on an improved way to isolate cells for research is planning to do its next experiment more than 200 miles away – straight up. Quad Technologies LLC, a MassChallenge company founded last year, has received a grant worth about $1 million to study the effects of microgravity on the manufacture of […]

It can be a small world, this niche buying of used scholarly books on Amazon. It can also be a sobering one. I am on the lookout for both rare books in my field and copies of my own publications that are being sold way below list price. The former helps me remain current in […]

Boston Community Capital has launched a $100,000 one-year fellowship for a recent law school graduate to work for the nonprofit organization doing public interest law work. The first fellow is Emily Rochon, a 2013 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. At Boston Community Capital, Rochon is working on state and federal public policy issues related to clean energy […]

The project expects to launch by the end of the month. When it does, researchers and the public will be able to comb through widely reprinted texts identified by mining 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from the Library of Congress. While this first stage focuses on texts from before the Civil War, the project eventually […]

Based on the steady coverage of how humanities are losing their popularity, tales of woe about art and psychology graduates making minuscule salaries, and the drum beat to push students towards STEM degrees, you might think the liberal arts is dying in favor of technical majors. The truth is a little more complicated. Ben Schmidt at Northeastern University put together the […]

Researchers like Twitter because almost all tweets are open, and the company provides an easy way to download the data, says Northeastern University computer scientist Alan Mislove, who worked on a study measuring “the pulse of the nation” published in 2010. “You can get a large sample of data that covers a whole country or […]

Lawyers say preparing a parole application based on a claim of innocence is risky, because parole boards want to see inmates say they are sorry. A defendant who lacks remorse is considered more likely to commit other crimes. Indeed, a guilty person who pretends to be remorseful is more likely to be released than a […]

Vijay Govindarajan is a professor of international business at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Ravi Ramamurti is a professor at Northeastern University and director of its Center for Emerging Markets. They are co-authors of the article “Delivering World-Class Healthcare Affordably,” in the current issue of Harvard Business Review. No matter how the fight over […]

The safe and efficient movement of goods and people is critical to our economy. Boston’s population and number of jobs are growing, and transportation investment has a crucial role to play in creating enough capacity for all who want to both live and work in Boston. According to a2012 Northeastern University research report, the MBTA […]

Opinions differ as to whether a child’s discipline in one answer means the same will apply in the other two. One of Karlan’s partners this year, economist Jodi Beggs of Northeastern University, meticulously rations out her candy but throws her costume together at the last minute. “You would really hurt this prediction,” Karlan told her […]

Homicide rates have plummeted nationally since the mid-1990s. Even so, Portland’s homicide rate on a per capita basis has been among the nation’s lowest for years. And though academic criminologists offer a host of data-driven theories that they say correlate a variety of policies and demographics with murder rates, none appear to fully explain why […]

These numbers are part of the reason Jack Levin, a sociology and criminology professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, isn’t surprised that four mass killings happened in such a short time. “Murders don’t distribute themselves evenly over a 12-month period,” Levin said. “Just because we see four occurring in proximity to each other doesn’t mean we […]