Northeastern University will more than double the number of degree programs it offers in Charlotte. The Boston university’s satellite campus will expand its curriculum here to 15 master’s degrees and add its first two doctoral programs. Classes for those programs will start this fall, says Cheryl Richards, chief executive officer and regional dean. That’s up from eight […]

Laurie Edwards, lecturer in health and science writing at Northeastern University and author of In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America, contributed this article to LiveScience’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. After a lifetime of infections, hospitalizations and surgeries, a set of lab results changed everything for me. When I was […]

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Justin Craig, PhD, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Associate Editor, Family Business Review, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University talks about recent academic research on family businesses. Family businesses weathered financial crisis better than non-family businesses Most recently, international research from the Harvard Business Review, for instance, has emerged that demonstrates how businesses with family ownership […]

As part of the Boston community, we share the sadness of last week’s Boston Marathon bombings. Thanks to excellent police work and public cooperation, Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev were identified as the perpetrators and are reportedly unaffiliated with any larger terrorist network. But going forward, how can law enforcement increase its ability to identify would-be terrorists operating […]

Something happens when you’ve been out of work for half a year. Employers ignore you completely. That was the conclusion of a new field study by Rand Ghayad, a visiting scholar at the Boston Fed and a PhD candidate at Northeastern University, that showed that resumes with otherwise identical qualifications get called back far less if […]

Many classmates, friends, and family members of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have expressed shock in the accusations against the Chechen-born brothers who are suspected to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing. This is especially true in the case of Dzhokhar, who appeared to be well integrated in American culture compared to his older brother, […]

In an effort to raise awareness of this issue, a group of Northeastern University students held an event on April 17 titled “Journalism & Juvenile Justice: How Your Sentences Affect Theirs,” a panel discussion that explored the role the media plays in juvenile sentencing reform. It featured several prominent speakers, including former governor Michael Dukakis; […]

The pending legal case surrounding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his reportedly copped-to involvement in the Marathon Monday bombings is almost sure to incite a visceral reaction from the public one way or another. It’s simply not an event to be consumed idly. There have been shouts to charge the 19-year-old as an enemy combatant, shouts since […]

here are are no final answers to the motives of the Tsarnaev brothers, but there is informed analysis. Criminologist James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University, is the author of “The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder”, and says he thinks Tamerlan Tsarnaev had immense influence on his younger brother Dzhokhar, but […]

That doesn’t mean one should play the market based on search terms alone, however. The researchers observed a trend, but not all words fit the pattern. And if a lot of people were to find out that search terms can be linked to market movements (say by reading Scientific Reports), that signal could become useless or […]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died last week at age 26 in a shootout with police, and his 19-year-old sibling Dzhokhar are hardly the first brothers involved in criminal acts. Three pairs of brothers were among the 9/11 terrorists, for example, and three brothers were convicted in 2008 for planning to attack soldiers at Fort Dix in […]