Northeastern University’s College of Science says it’s now open to hiring Ph.D.s right out of graduate school as part of a new science faculty hiring program aimed at broadening the candidate pool.

Gun ownership is becoming more diverse nationally, too. A recent paper by researchers at Northeastern University and Harvard University found that while the majority of people who bought guns in this country between 2019 and April 2021 already owned a firearm, about one in five were first-time gun buyers. 

“I think that Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan will certainly contribute to the deterioration of US-China relations,” said Philip Thai, an associate professor of history and Asian studies at Northeastern University.

The Criminal Justice Reform Act included new protections for prison inmates held in long term solitary confinement. But now a new lawsuit alleges that the Department of Corrections has failed to abide by many of those reforms. GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed joined Morning Edition host Jeremy Siegel to discuss the […]

And in April, the trust announced four finalists in a competition for the climate center — the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Stony Brook University and, in a joint application, the City University of New York and the New School. The winner is expected to be announced next year.

Instead, Clayton became part of a grim pandemic trend: a spike in domestic violence homicides. According to unpublished FBI data analyzed for Reveal by Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, gun homicides by intimate partners soared 25% in 2020 compared with the previous year.

Op-Ed written by Daniel Medwed, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Reproductive Equity Now . 

Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University and a longtime gun violence researcher, says the Legislature could, for instance, require local police to check in with family about an applicant’s mental health before issuing a license.

When it comes to services that a company offers clients, Kimberly A. Eddleston, the Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business in Boston, says, “If something doesn’t make you money, but leads to what is making you money, then you keep it.”

The picture is mixed on fears that recent pandemic lockdowns exacerbated domestic violence. James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor of criminology, law and public policy, analysed FBI data and found homicides in family settings rose 26 per cent in 2020 over the previous year.

Mass killings are rarely connected to custody issues, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston who maintains a database in collaboration with the Associated Press and USA Today of 498 mass killings in the United States since 2006. 

Paulsen co-authored a paper with Northeastern University researcher Alicia Sasser Modestino that looked at summer youth employment programs in Massachusetts, where the minimum wage is $14.25.