Segment 3: Since state authorities started investigating his parents for child abuse earlier this week, everyone seems to have developed an opinion on 9-year-old Brockton rapper Lil Poopy. Authorities reportedly started investigating Lil Poopy’s parents after viewing a music video in which he appears in sexually suggestive situations. Northeastern University associate professor of music Emmett G. […]

Much hangs in the balance in Red Sox Nation. Roger Abrams, former Major League Baseball salary arbitrator and current Northeastern Law Professor, joined us on the line from spring training in Florida. … What do you think of women competing in traditionally “male” sports? North Andover High School student Danielle Coughlin made national headlines when she became the […]

Did you know that February 28 is Rare Disease Day? Probably not, despite the fact that more than 700,000 classified rare disorders affect nearly 30 million Americans. Whether it’s finding specialists who can diagnose us, advocating for our needs, or getting effective medications when blockbuster drugs get much of the funding, rare disease patients live […]

Maxine Roca, a graduate of Northeastern University — famous for experiential education — was a teacher with Teach for America and ended up becoming a recruiter at her old high school, Bishop Loghian, before taking over a classroom. She had the insight that many people were nervous about going to a gym and did not […]

In a recently published security brief, Big Data Fuels Intelligence Driven Security, experts from RSA, Northeastern University and Booz Allen Hamilton set out the components for a Big Data-oriented security management system: Set a holistic cyber-security strategy: Align security capabilities behind a holistic cyber security strategy customized for your organization’s specific risks, threats and requirements. Establish a […]

So instead of constant odes to the past, I want to see people like Marquis Landon Cabrera lauded during Black History Month. Just a few decades ago, the 24-year-old Cabrera would have been considered a statistic with poor odds. He bounced around foster homes till he was 15. But then he was adopted by a […]

“FOUNDATION”, a novel by Isaac Asimov from the golden age of science fiction, imagines a science called psychohistory which enables its practitioners to predict precisely the behaviour of large groups of people. The inventor of psychohistory, Hari Seldon, uses his discovery to save humanity from an historical dark age. A fantasy, of course. But the […]

“The fruit ripens slowly,” the Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj once observed, “but it drops suddenly.” In a similar fashion, MOOCs (or massive open online courses) seem to have arrived almost out of nowhere, in quick succession – first Udacity in February of last year, followed by Coursera in April, then edX in May. Remarkable as it […]

But Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox said offering better mental health care is no cure-all. “Mass murderers won’t take you up on treatment. “They tend to externalize and blame other people for their problems,” he said. “They blame the spouse, the co-workers, immigrants. They feel persecuted. “The kind of crime which motivates you to […]

As calls for reform of legal education continue to suggest a variety of directions, one thing is certain. Law schools will be expected to do more with less. We often hear legal educators highlight tensions within the loud criticisms aimed at today’s law schools. Critics tell us that costs are too high compared to the […]

Northeastern University is one of 13 colleges in Massachusetts and Vermont involved in the program, which reaches children in 18 affordable housing communities throughout the two states.

“Kids haven’t gotten anywhere in the economy’s recovery,” said Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum, who compiled the data for the report. “Adults and older kids are filling those jobs. When kids go to look, they have so many people ahead of them in line they go to the back of the line.”