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?”
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.
WCVB TV Police said she was abused, but then she was threatened with prosecution Margo Lindauer, a former director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Domestic Violence Institute, said the state law banning secret recordings also affects victims’ ability to gather evidence against their abusers.
A College Taps Wall Street Playbook to Rival Ivies on Admissions For Northeastern University, navigating the brutal business of higher education means using mergers and acquisitions to build a global brand.
Refresh Miami Northeastern’s Miami campus receives $200K in JPMorganChase support for university’s local entrepreneurship programs JPMorgan Chase has committed $200,000 to support Northeastern University’s Miami Innovation Academy and Next Level X Northeastern programs on the university’s recently opened Miami campus.
Nature News How a ‘pain-o-meter’ could improve treatments At the laboratory I visited at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, mechanical engineer Yingzi Lin and her colleagues at are collecting a wide range of physiological parameters.
Bay State Banner Northeastern music program helps Dorchester, Roxbury high schoolers find their sound “Students wanted us to specifically do a better job of recruiting students from our surrounding communities and of facilitating opportunities to learn more about racism in the city of Boston, about the communities that we encroach upon as an urban campus,” said Rebekah Moore, assistant professor of music at Northeastern.