At Northeastern University, professor Jerome F. Hajjar chairs the department of civil and environmental engineering. He said a useful way to think about how the shift to more sustainable engineering could be accelerated was by looking at the transition to buildings designed to better withstand or control damage from earthquakes.

We take your calls on this with Dan Lebowitz, the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society out of Northeastern University and Danika Manso-Brown,  the Director of Education with the Anti-Defamation League of New England.

 Michael Zoorob, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, found in an analysis that sheriffs have an incumbency advantage that “far exceeds that of other local offices” such as city councilor, state representative or mayor. Much of this advantage, Zoorob wrote, comes from a sheriff’s nearly unchecked discretion, which can include the ability to hire and fire employees […]

The problem extends beyond Danvers, said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University. “At some point, we need to understand as a larger community of conscience that this level of racism, antisemitism, homophobia, and other forms of hate aren’t endemic just to Danvers but are […]

Podium’s model of partnering and working alongside institutions is a relatively new type of boot camp, said Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. When boot camps first exploded in 2015, Gallagher said, they typically operated separately from institutions, but now they’re more likely […]

To find out, Gordon collaborated with James Reeder at Purdue University and Mitchell J. Lovett and Bowen Luo at Northeastern University. The researchers obtained data from Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG) on presidential campaign TV ads in 75 designated market areas from September to November of 2000 and 2004.

“Not all of these claims are the same and not all of these mandates are the same,” said Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in public health law.

To find out, Gordon collaborated with James Reeder at Purdue University and Mitchell J. Lovett and Bowen Luo at Northeastern University. The researchers obtained data from Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group (CMAG) on presidential campaign TV ads in 75 designated market areas from September to November of 2000 and 2004.

The School Hate Crime Resource Guide, released by the administration’s Task Force on Hate Crimes and written by researchers from Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice, American University, and the Anti-Defamation League of New England, outlines policies and recommendations for Massachusetts school districts to “respond to bias-related incidents and hate crimes.”

“As we see it, this funding represents a down payment on restorative justice: remedying deliberate discriminatory policies that created polluted and transit-poor neighborhoods like West Bellfort in Houston, Westside in San Antonio and West Oakland, California,” write urban policy scholars Joan Fitzgerald at Northeastern University and Julian Agyeman at Tufts University.

“We watched Ronald Reagan do this brilliantly over the course of his political career,” says Costas Panagopoulos, a political scientist at Northeastern University. “His ability to deliver a speech or to connect with viewers and live audiences was spectacular. And that was part of not only his appeal, but also what allowed him to bring […]

David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University in Massachusetts who helps lead the Covid States Project, said the research has raised an interesting question: “Do you as a patient have the right to demand an all-vaccinated location? Because nobody wants to go to a restaurant and get infected — and curing people is not part of […]