The World asked Kamran Dadkhah, an economist at Northeastern University, to explain why Iran’s government would ban the export of pistachios which are among Iran’s top non-oil exports worth an estimated $1.5 billion a year to Iran.

Energy efficiency used to mean keeping the thermostat below 68 degrees or putting on a sweater. No longer. A generation of study and technological advances have transformed the field — making huge economic and environmental savings possible. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Obama challenged the nation “to cut in half the energy […]

Northeastern University’s career services office offers weekly workshops in both basic and advanced LinkedIn site-building, accommodating 20 students per session. Students are also counseled to change their Facebook privacy and security settings, to ensure that more personal material is hard to access. Even for universities helping students navigate the job search and social media landscapes, […]

Sixty percent of people think the U.S. school system is “poor” or just “fair” and think an online degree is just the same as enrolling full-time on a campus, according to research by Northeastern University. Doesn’t this mean something? Doesn’t it show that universities really need to step it up and actually invest in making their campuses […]

James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University and the author of Violence and Security on Campus: From Preschool Through College (Praeger, 2010). His article in The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the myths about mass shootings and was published before the decrees were issued. His […]

The state of the union may or may not be strong, but the State of the Union was liberal. That was the view of media commentators from the left, right and center the morning after President Barack Obama delivered his fourth State of the Union address. The president called for a higher minimum wage, universal preschool […]

For the study, Creswell, recent CMU graduate James K. Bursley and Northeastern University’s Ajay B. Satpute presented 27 healthy adults with information about cars and other items while undergoing neuroimaging. Then, before being asked to make decisions about the items, the participants had to complete a difficult distractor task — memorizing sequences of numbers — […]

As they say, hope springs eternal. And the key word in that phrase—today— is “springs.” That is because today is the first day of Red Sox spring training and the official beginning of their 2013 campaign. To mark the occasion, we checked in with Roger Abrams, former Major League Baseball arbitrator and Northeastern University Law professor, who joined […]

Boston College’s Pat Mullane envisioned a nightmare scenario a few weeks ago. Johnny Gaudreau had stuck with his commitment to Northeastern and was on a line with Kevin Roy. Frightening, at least for an opposing player. “I would hate to play against him and Kevin Roy,” Mullane said at the time. “That would be terrible […]

“I think we will see him get aggressive on gun control…maybe the economy, too, but not in a way that is particularly polarizing,” said Greg Goodale, Associate Professor in Communication Studies at Northeastern University. “He is a conscious president. You get the anger and sorrow about gun control, but you don’t get that on other […]

With the hunt for Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer suspected of three killings, in its second week, local officials have offered $1 million for information that could lead to his capture. As of Tuesday morning, more than 1,000 tips have been received since the reward was announced Sunday afternoon, police officials said. Yet what is […]

After successfully funding and building her first company with a Shark Tank pitch, Northeastern alumna Rebecca Rescate was back on last week, trading feline potty training for a pillow that doubles as a hoodie. Her new company, Hoodie Pillow, had already racked up tens of thousands of sales before Rescate’s repeat performance on the reality show […]