Cancellation also emerged from a distinct culture on Twitter. The practice evolved from “callout” practices that were common on Black Twitter in the early 2010s, Meredith D. Clark, an associate professor at Northeastern University, wrote in a 2020 paper.

Researchers at Northeastern University have also created a tool for comparing packaged foods in the same category in order to choose the one with the least amount of processing. For instance, in the yogurt category, one plain organic yogurt scored a 4/100 (a favorable score indicating a low amount of processing), while Oui Petite by […]

Family mass killings immediately capture the attention of people in a community, but rarely garner the level of national attention received by mass killings at schools, places of worship or restaurants, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University who has studied familicides and mass killings for decades.

Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, suggested that the global supply chain interruptions that have exacerbated inflation are starting to ease.

Estelle Paranque’s “Blood, Fire and Gold” adds appealingly to this matrix of monarchy, tracing the relations between Elizabeth I (a Tudor) and Catherine de Medici (a Valois by marriage)…Ms. Paranque, who teaches at Northeastern University London, conveys the relationship between these two remarkable women with zest and insight and with sympathy, for Catherine especially.

While the deaths are still “too many,” said Sam Scarpino of Northeastern University, “we’re doing a lot better than last year for sure.”

A school shooting involving a 6-year-old is extremely rare, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Boston’s Northeastern University.

A school shooting involving a 6-year-old is extremely rare, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Boston’s Northeastern University.

Family mass killings have become a disturbingly common tragedy across the country. In 2022, there were 17 of them, according to a database compiled by USA Today, the Associated Press and Northeastern University. Ten were murder-suicides, and 14 were shootings. The database defines a mass killing as four or more people slain, not including the […]

The philosopher Martha Nussbaum aims to provoke a new relationship between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. This article was written by Evan Selinger, an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity.

Auroop Ganguly, director of the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University, Boston, previously told Newsweek, “On the hydrometeorological hazards side, heat waves are getting—and are further projected to get—even hotter, cold snaps persisting even if growing less frequent, heavy precipitation getting heavier, and so on.”

Fully online degrees are one way of expanding. But what is likely to be far more attractive to a wide range of students are new, varied combinations of traditional campus learning, remote learning, innovative lower-cost campuses and community experiences and the types of exciting public or private-sector internships that universities such as Northeastern University provide.