It’s rare for police agencies to publicly acknowledge investigative blunders like Boston’s top cop did after the revelation detectives failed to arrest a man for a violent Roxbury assault last September who is now charged in two Southie attacks and is also a “person of interest” in the Amy Lord murder, experts said yesterday. “Most […]

Northeastern President Joseph Aoun recently took to Twitter to announce the University’s commitment to purchasing at least 20 percent of their food from local, fair and sustainable sources by 2020. With that pledge publicly made, Northeastern became Boston’s first higher education institution to join the Real Food Challenge. Spun from Boston-based nonprofit The Food Project, the Real Food Challenge […]

“When you are talking about restructuring a giant economy like the Chinese economy … I don’t know what more they [Chinese leaders] can do,” said Ravi Ramamurti, director of the Centre for Emerging Markets at Boston’s Northeastern University.

Often, victims are afraid of escalating the violence against them, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. He pointed to the murder of eight nursing students in Chicago in 1966 by just one man, Richard Speck. Speck tied the women up in their apartment, promising that all he wanted was money, and then […]

Jack Levin, a criminologist who is co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University, said it was likely that Mr. Moody possessed a common trait among killers. “Serial killers often attempt to justify their killing sprees, and they usually do it by dehumanizing their victims,” Dr. Levin said. But the case in South […]

This week, Northeastern University became Boston’s first college to join the Real Food Challenge, which is a national campaign through which colleges pledge to purchase 20 percent of their food from local, sustainable sources. The Real Food Challenge will begin this fall at Northeastern’s International Village dining hall. A small group of students will work with […]

The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment. The number of inmates in […]

Scientists at Northeastern University in Boston hypothetically released smallpox in London, New York, Paris, and other major cities, and then simulated it being carried by travellers to other countries. They published their findings in Scientific Reports, saying they believe a deliberate smallpox infection would spread to up to four countries before doctors diagnosed it. These maps […]

7:10am: Before making breakfast you run your forearm across an ultraviolet reader on your wall to check your glucose levels. Your “nano-tattoo” shines back a reading that shows you are in the healthy blood-sugar range. As a diabetic, you used to have to prick your finger and take a blood sample to find out how your […]

Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, said those without a college degree are having difficulty finding employment because they are being displaced by recent college graduates who haven’t been able to find jobs in their fields. Last year, he said, there were more young workers with a bachelor’s […]

We look at what the booming housing market means for the Massachusetts economy, for home sellers and buyers and whether the Bay State is heading toward a mini housing bubble. Guests Tim Warren, chief executive officer of real eastate publisher The Warren Group Barry Bluestone, the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and founding director of the […]

The global economic crisis of the last five years has concentrated our collective attention, both here in the U.S. and around the world, on the need for jobs — as well as the need for strategies to support meaningful economic growth. Clearly, higher education has an important role to play here. For example, a December […]