But, culturally, it matters that Collins is an active player and that he is a man. How will the locker room react? How will fans react? What about endorsements? Collins’s announcement challenges comfortable but homophobic notions about athletic heroes, said Dan Lebowitz, director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern […]

The Boston Marathon bombers have brought a number of important assumptions into the national dialogue concerning the character of domestic terrorism. Unfortunately, the conversation has too often been filled with myths and misconceptions regarding the who, what, where, and why of terrorist activity in the United States. Four of these myths have been especially prominent: […]

To clear up the bacteria, patients often face further surgery to remove implants, as well as a regimen of antibiotics. But these drugs can fail as microbes mutate and develop resistance. “It’s a huge problem,” said Thomas Webster, a chemical engineer at Northeastern University, in Boston, “which is why we like non-drug solutions — like […]

In the age of startup-mania, accelerators, incubators and the constant search for venture capital,Northeastern University is taking a proactive approach to getting would-be founders to an entrepreneurial happy-place. IDEA calls itself a “venture accelerator,” The three-year-old program within the university was founded by students who – after coming face to face with the harsh realities of […]

College is crazy expensive–and it’s getting more expensive all the time. Entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel are fond of saying it’s not worth it. But 23-year-old Chris Wolfel, who is getting his bachelor’s from Northeastern University this spring, found college to be not only a good investment, but the perfect launching pad for his entrepreneurial dreams. For the last […]

Shared paranoid disorder might also explain why the two brothers did not initially plan for a quick getaway after the bombing. “They might have fantasized that God would take care of them,” Bursztajn said, and enable them to escape being identified as the bombers. Or they might simply have been careless in their planning. The […]

“For a while it really felt like a rocket ship, with folks desperate not to be left behind,” says Peter Stokes, executive director of postsecondary innovation at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies. “I think that phase has passed, and the folks who are starting to do the work are starting to realize that these […]

The psychiatric condition, however, is uncommon, and a far more plausible scenario is that the brothers were emboldened by each other. “They may believe that murder is wrong, but their sense of allegiance and loyalty to each other or the group may supersede that sense of right and wrong,” said James Alan Fox, a criminology […]

In that way, Boston has hinted at a new American maturity, say experts. Because of it, the “new normal” post-Boston might not look too different from what came before – a more robust police presence at big events, more surveillance cameras on urban streets perhaps. But like other cities worldwide that have faced the threat […]

Indeed, data from Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies show that young adults with degrees in engineering, math, and computer science are far more likely to get professional jobs that require college degrees than those with other majors. About 80 percent of such “technical” degree holders have college-level professional jobs, compared to just 59 […]

Massachusetts economy grew at a solid pace in the first three months of 2013, with jobs, wages and salaries on the rise, according to a new report released Friday by the University of Massachusetts and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The state economy expanded an annual rate of 3.9 percent between January and March, up from […]

Meg Heckman, a journalism graduate student at Northeastern University, created a short video on the school’s slacklining club. Slacklining is similar to tightrope walking, with participants trying to walk across a stretchy rope.