While not involved in the United Kingdom study, Northeastern University researcher Timothy Bickmore, Ph.D., has explored ways relational agents can increase compliance and potentially reduce rehospitalizations, especially for those individuals with low health literacy or at an economic disadvantage. He will present his findings during the 2013 Online Expo technology session on March 20 at […]

Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, is scheduled to deliver Northeastern University’s 111th commencement address on May 3, the school’s president announced this week. Kim, the former Dartmouth College president and a public health leader, will also receive an honorary degree during the morning ceremony at TD Garden in front of an expected […]

Another study from researchers at Northeastern University revealed that hamsters using steroids behaved more aggressively, and had significantly lower levels of the “feel good” receptor, serotonin, in areas of the brain related to aggression and violence.  

New details are emerging about Adam Lanza and how spent his time in the lead up to the massacre that left 20 children and 7  adults dead. A source with knowledge of the investigation tell CNN Lanza “was obsessed” with mass murderers. One of those, according to CBS and The Hartford Courant, is Norwegian mass-murder Anders Brievik, who […]

For a state that lags far behind the rest of the nation in the production of science and engineering graduates, Northeastern University’s entry into Washington’s higher education marketplace should be welcome news. Some in the field though, worry the Boston-based school’s arrival might give Washingtonians a false sense of security about the future of higher education. […]

The Globe, in partnership with Northeastern University Initiative for Investigative Reporting, last year reported that Massachusetts was the first state to make doctor profiles public on its website, starting in 1997. Since then, it has become one of few states that remove the profiles of doctors who have lost their licenses and that post only […]

One of those is Northeastern University, whose so-called “experiential learning” approach requires undergraduates to work in real-world settings for as many as 18 months while in school. More than half go on to full-time jobs in those places, and more than 90 percent are employed or in graduate school within nine months of earning their degrees. Nationally, […]

More educated men, on the other hand, tend to marry educated women, and these couples’ earnings took less of a beating during the downturn, further widening gap between the highest and lowest incomes, said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies. “At the bottom, women’s share is going up largely because […]

Similar undergraduate courses have been sprouting up on campuses nationwide lately, often riding the coattails of popular new entrepreneurship majors. New York University this spring for the first time is offering an undergrad course on the topic. Savannah State University in Georgia plans to introduce such a class next year. Boston’s Northeastern University launched a […]

Criminologist Jack Levin at Northeastern University said Lanza’s isolation and a possible rivalry with other mass killers are characteristics that the Sandy Hook gunman shares with other shooters. “It is not surprising that a school shooter would be inspired to break a record that was left by another school shooter. We’ve seen this happen at […]

“There are probably some dangerous things left off the balance sheet still, and we’ll only find out what in the next crisis,” said David Sherman, an accounting professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “But how many times do we have to go through this to figure it all out?” After failing to agree on common standards […]

Although there are currently said to be more than 14 billion pages on the Internet, a new study shows that navigation between any two of these pages should take you no more than 19 clicks — that’s how interrelated everything is. The study was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and conducted by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University’s Center […]