There’s also a cultural resistance that stems, understandably, from the health and safety of research subjects’ being the boards’ utmost concern. IRBs have required privacy protections for decades, but even today, if you take a standard training on conducting human research, data security is an afterthought, said David M.J. Lazer, a professor of political and […]

This gap in education engagement has dire economic consequences for boys. A 2011 Brookings Institution report quantifies the economic decline of the median male: For men ages 25 to 64 with no high school diploma, median annual earnings have declined 66 percent since 1969; for men with only a high school diploma, wages declined by 47 percent. […]

The “Journal Rappe” program shows just how innovative hip-hop artists remain in Senegal, says Murray Forman, an associate professor of media and screen studies at Northeastern University. “They’re taking it to some different place, a place we don’t commonly see hip-hop which I think is fun and exciting,” he said after watching their programs online. […]

Authorities say they uncovered a “dungeon” in Portway’s basement. CBS Boston reports the room was sound-proofed and contained handcuffs and a child-sized coffin. Disposable scalpels were also uncovered, the Associated Press reports. “This man looks like he went beyond just having ideas,” Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told CBS Boston. “He made plans. He prepared by investing […]

Although there’s no way to know for sure why the researchers did not detect aging in S. pombe under favorable conditions, one likely explanation is that the cellular damage is being repaired at the same rate that it’s being formed, said Eric Stewart, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston, who was not involved in the study. […]

After years of struggle and, most recently, historic protests throughout Romania and abroad, over 20,000 people took to the streets in Romania last week to protest a mining project in the western commune of Roşia Montana. Among the charges brought by the protestors were irrevocable harm to a historic location (the Romans mined gold there […]

So far, only four universities offer full-blown Ph.D. programs: University of California in Santa Cruz, Chicago’s DePaul University, Northeastern University in Boston, and Adelphi University in Garden City.  

High-tech manufacturing accounts for nearly one in every three factory jobs in Massachusetts, and many of those pay high wages — $80,000 a year or more, according to a recent Northeastern University report on the sector. And the Intel jobs would be at the higher end of the industry scale. “In terms of these people […]

So when you’re out looking for a job, the dollar value of your time is a serious issue. But once you shake your new boss’s hand and are led to your workstation, what motivates you to do your bestwork? Whether you admit it or not, money is probably not at the top of the list. “I […]

Hazing is nothing new, but two recent local hazing incidents raise some interesting questions. In one incident, 3 Somerville high school students are charged in the brutal sexual assault of a High School freshman during a summer camp for the junior varsity soccer team. In the other, police are investigating a hazing incident in Chelmsford, N.H. involving […]

I met Soboroff in Boston, where a curated selection of his typewriters is being displayed at Northeastern University. The collection routinely tours, and people can type on their favorite luminary’s machine for a fee that goes towards a fund for journalism scholarships. I brought my camera; the images included here were shot, in keeping with the analog […]

The NSA has run this “cyber operations” program since 2012, working with Northeastern University, Dakota State, the University of Tulsa and the Naval Postgraduate School to design curricula that match the agency’s intelligence and infrastructure needs. (CMU, the Air Force Institute of Technology, Auburn and Mississippi State joined last week.) The purpose, says Carnegie Mellon’s […]