Skip to content
Find coverage of Northeastern University in the press.
Financial Times Logo

Freight rates rise as companies plan for costly US port strike

If the strike drags on, “I think it will have a political impact,” said Seth Harris, Biden’s former top labour policy adviser, now a senior fellow at Northeastern University’s Burnes Center for Social Change.
IEEE Spectrum

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

By Patrick O’Brien, Jakub F. Kowalewski, Chad C. Kessens, and Jeffrey Ian Lipton from Northeastern University Transformative Robotics Lab. 
The Washington Post Logo

Democrats, with ‘Coach Walz’ as VP pick, embrace political power of football

“Football is the most popular sport in America, and by showing that they love and care about the sport, candidates can try to make a personal connection with ordinary voters and to show them that they are just like them,” said Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University.  

Column: A restful fly, a deer in the headlights and a winking Sarah Palin make for memorable VP debates

“It’s the most conclusive, definitive loss by a vice presidential candidate in any debate ever,” said Northeastern University’s Alan Schroeder, who has written an authoritative history of the high-stakes political match-ups. And yet, just a few weeks later, Bush and Quayle romped to victory.
The Boston Globe logo.

Lobster, moose, and … climate tech? Maine is branching out.

It’s an initiative of Northeastern University that will focus on breakthrough technologies to address the climate crisis. Among the companies cropping up here are SeaDeep, which uses advanced computer vision and machine learning to map, explore, and monitor underwater resources
Mass Live

Boston’s homicide rate is sharply down. It’s not just luck

”… a very small percentage of offenders have a very large share of violent crime,” said Jacob Stowell, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University. It is difficult to tie declining crime to a specific policy change coming from the mayor’s office, police department or another source, Stowell said.
CBS Sunday Morning

Brush with fame: The public’s one-sided bond with celebrities

Even mention of a celebrity sighting or encounter is bound to stop the conversation. “It’s a brush with a person larger-than-life,” said Vance Ricks, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “And so, maybe some of the glory from that person rubs off on you.”
ProPublica

Maylia and Jack: A Story of Teens and Fentanyl

As a result, there’s been almost no scrutiny of how these laws are used against kids, said Katie McCreedy, a Northeastern University doctoral researcher who studies these charges. “How can young people in media stories be simultaneously assumed to know nothing about how deadly the drugs are and also held accountable for homicide?”
The Washington Post Logo

Bad Bunny launches billboard campaign against Puerto Rico’s ruling party

That system was “stable for half a century, with the two biggest parties getting approximately 95 percent of the vote in each election,” said Amílcar Antonio Barreto, a professor of cultures, societies and global studies at Northeastern University. 
Ars Technica

Opinion: How to design a US data privacy law

Nick Dedeke is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, Boston. His research interests include digital transformation strategies, ethics, and privacy. His research has been published in IEEE Management Review, IEEE Spectrum, and the Journal of Business Ethics.

Column: A restful fly, a deer in the headlights and a winking Sarah Palin make for memorable VP debates

“It’s the most conclusive, definitive loss by a vice presidential candidate in any debate ever,” said Northeastern University’s Alan Schroeder, who has written an authoritative history of the high-stakes political match-ups. And yet, just a few weeks later, Bush and Quayle romped to victory.
WGBH

Massachusetts’ Haitian community feels the weight and history of racist lies

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, director of Africana studies at Northeastern University, said the current rhetoric is an extension of “a longstanding campaign of vilification and dehumanization of Haitians,” including Trump’s reference to the country as a “shithole” in 2018.