Celebratory riots have plagued college campuses over the last decade, especially on St. Patrick’s Day or following sporting events, said Jack Levin, professor of sociology and criminology at the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. “Rioting has for years been a fad on college campuses around the country and has often been […]

The worst of Edgartown’s traffic problems is still months away, but a group of Northeastern University students are spending the off-season looking for a solution. For the second year in a row, transportation students participating in professor Daniel Dulaski’s senior capstone project are facing off against a worthy opponent: Edgartown’s seasonally-congested streets and traffic patterns. […]

For Clarence Earl Gideon, who spent much of his early life homeless and his entire life in poverty, the criminal theft prosecution that made him a household name was just one of many legal challenges. A low-wage worker, Gideon undoubtedly experienced some of the exploitation typical of that job sector. In his autobiography, Gideon said […]

But as investigators have expanded the depth and reach of the information they collect, the tools needed to analyze that growing pile of data have not kept up. “Unless you’re Columbo, you can’t do that kind of analysis yourself,” said Glenn Pierce, principal research scientist for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern […]

Still, Margaret A. Burnham, a law professor and the founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Program at the Northeastern University School of Law, said these letters mattered, even if devoid of resolution. “Setting aside whether the F.B.I. could have done more, I respect the dignity with which they are accepting responsibility for letting families know […]

To the list of differences between men and women, we can add one more: the drug-dose gender gap. Doctors and researchers increasingly understand that there can be striking variations in the way men and women respond to drugs, many of which are tested almost exclusively on males. Early this year, for instance, the Food and […]

What’s the future of higher education? There might be no one better to answer the question than Lawrence Bacow, the former president of Tufts, and Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern.

SEATTLE-A new campus has been created for Northeastern University—Seattle. Designed by the Seattle office of international architecture and design firm Perkins+Will, the University’s extension campus is located in the flourishing South Lake Union neighborhood. Although those involved could not disclose any construction price, we learned that the campus and its location are designed to “enhance the […]

The jobless rate has been edging downward, but the long-term unemployed have been left out. Do we need a targeted program to get these 4.8M Americans back to work?

“It certainly lends some evidence of prior planning and at least a fascination with these kind of incidents, if not using it as a way to sort of develop a plan,” said Jack McDevitt, associate dean in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Other killers have been found with materials from […]

Soviet officials reportedly were miffed by the depiction of an American who was at first besotted by the radical ideas of the revolution but who lost faith as the totalitarian aftermath set in. They immediately gave the green light to an ambitious multi-part film saga dubbed “Red Bells,” says Northeastern University Russian expert, Harlow Robinson, […]

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo has named an eight-member panel to advise him on the way to address gun violence. The Winthrop Democrat said he formed the group in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and other recent mass killings. DeLeo said the group will suggest laws that would help avoid similar tragedies. […]