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 […]

Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a treatment for Parkinson’s disease meant to revive dying neurons in the brain via delivery through the nose. The Boston researchers were able to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s–a decrease of motor function that results in tremors and slowed movements–with a protein called glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, or GDNF. The […]

In the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings, numerous politicians are calling the Gang of 8’s push for immigration reform into question. What lessons can advocates learn from 2001? Hosted by: Alicia Menendez Guests: Christopher Bail @chris_bail (Ann Arbor, MI) Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill David Leopold @DavidLeopold (Cleveland, OH) General Counsel and Past President of American Immigration […]

Remember sitting through high school math class while the teacher droned on about polynomial equations and thinking there wasn’t a chance you’d ever use any of it in life? Well, if you’re like most Americans, chances are your 17-year-old self was absolutely correct. As it turns out, less than a quarter of U.S. workers report […]

Avoid the negative. There’s nothing more demoralizing than negative talk at the office. Whether such grousing is fueled bypolitics or gossip, no good can come of it. Lynne Sarikas, executive director of the MBA Career Center at Northeastern University, suggests steering clear of being sucked in by nattering nabobs. “Some people just have to have […]

In each case, however, Banaji, Greenwald and DiTomaso might argue, we strengthen existing patterns of advantage and disadvantage because our friends, neighbors and children’s classmates are overwhelmingly likely to share our own racial, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds. When we help someone from one of these in-groups, we don’t stop to ask: Whom are we not helping? Banaji […]