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 […]

Leaders of law firms and law schools today find themselves relentlessly focused on where law practice is headed. If they are not building structures that prepare aspiring professionals to thrive over several decades, then they are not doing their jobs. Yet such leaders must readily acknowledge that their own careers within the legal profession offered […]

Editor’s note: Stephen Flynn is founding co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security and a professor of political science at Northeastern University. The views expressed are his own. The twin bombings at the Boston marathon and the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers captivated the nation last week.  Nearly a dozen years after 9/11, a […]

“The payoff to the would-be terrorists is the most disruption you can get,” says Stephen Flynn, who directs Northeastern University’s George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security. “So on the one hand, you’re trying to obviously safeguard life and property. On the other, you want to make sure that you’re not creating, essentially, future […]

A possible cure to Parkinson’s disease has been developed to be taken through sufferers’ noses. The devastating disorder is caused by the death of dopamine neurons in a key area of the brain. But a gene that restores and protects dopamine can halt Parkinson’s if administered direct to the brain. It was thought this was […]

Saturday night at Town Hall in New York, the Nor’easters of Northeastern University in Boston were crowned national champions at the International Competition of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA), the entirely real battle dramatized in last summer’s surprise hit Pitch Perfect. On the same night, the organizers announced from the stage that 19 Entertainment, which produces American Idol, […]

With a nod to Earth Day, the Princeton Review has released its guide to 322 of the greenest colleges in the United States, with help from the Center for Green Schools at at the U.S. Green Building Council. Robert Franek, senior vice president of publishing, said in a release that students have increasingly considered colleges’ environmental footprints before […]

Cellular function requires biomolecules to undergo dynamic transitions that include folding, conformational rearrangements, and large-scale assembly. The result is a highly interdependent network of processes that is maintained by a balance of thermodynamic and kinetic factors. In molecular machines, each constituent biopolymer (i.e., a chain of residues) first folds to a low energy configuration/ensemble. These ordered polymers can then assemble into sophisticated architectures, […]

One piece of evidence comes from the relationship between job openings and unemployment. Normally these two numbers move inversely: the more job openings, the fewer Americans out of work. And this traditional relationship remains true if we look at short-term unemployment. But as William Dickens and Rand Ghayad of Northeastern University recently showed, the relationship has broken […]

By all accounts, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of two brothers suspected of having perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings, was a good kid, a bright young man and hardly the type of angry malcontent you’d expect of a terrorist. He graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin where he starred on the varsity wrestling team, and earned a city-funded $2,500 […]