The “mundane, largely hidden violence” that loomed over Black life is the subject of Margaret A. Burnham’s new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, a work by turns shocking, moving, and thought-provoking. It merits the attention of anyone interested in the historical roots of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and, […]

One of them is in Boston, where Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, is using coconut fibers, wood chips and other material to create floating mats to blunt the force of waves, and encourage growth of aquatic vegetation. 

Boston’s technology sector may have been spared from the worst of the fallout because of its heavy concentration in healthcare, an area that is a counter-cyclical industry, meaning it often does well during market downturns said John Bai, Northeastern University Associate Professor of Finance.

For example, Black and Latinx people were “much more likely to receive high cost, high risk loans than white borrowers during the housing boom, even after controlling for credit scores, loan to value rations, subordinate liens, income, assets, expense ratios, neighborhood characteristics, and other relevant variables” in the lead to the 2008 housing crash, researchers […]

“It is a quick way to signal to others that whatever those people over there are saying is not real, not substantial: This is something that’s easily dismissed, you shouldn’t pay attention to it,” Meredith D. Clark, who is now a professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern […]

The NASA-funded project was a partnership between technology company NuVant Systems, Northeastern University and the University of Texas at El Paso.

“We were at this persistent level of misery for a year,” said Sam Scarpino, a professor at Northeastern University. 

Moira Weigel, assistant professor at Northeastern University, argued in her book “Labor of Love,” that dating has “always been an activity that required a lot of work,” she said. That work, she said, is only amplified on dating apps.

By Northeastern University Seattle Campus.

Evan Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology; an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity; and a scholar in residence at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

“It is really one of the broadest categories of chemical ever used, so that does make it very exceptional,” said Phil Brown, an environmental sociologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has studied the chemicals.

“Wherever you test for it, you find it,” said Phil Brown, a co-director of the PFAS Project Lab at Northeastern University.