Jennie Stephens, director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, said that geoengineering research takes money and attention from the core problem, which is cutting emissions and helping vulnerable communities cope with the climate disruptions that are already happening. “We need to double down on bigger transformative changes,” Dr. Stephens […]

Other reform-minded DAs have encountered resistance from within their offices and police, but none has faced blowback like Gascón, said Daniel Medwed a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “I’m sort of hard-pressed to think about what other obstacle he could face,” Medwed said.

While data shows many forms of gun violence increased during the pandemic – gang violence, domestic incidents, retaliatory violence where perpetrators knew the victims – the number of shootings in public was the lowest it has been in a decade, according to the AP/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing database. 

According to Northeastern University research, more than 1 in 10 working parents reports having lost a job or reducing hours solely due to childcare. Among those who were unemployed, 25% of women said it was due to childcare versus 13% of men.

A sobering database compiled by USA TODAY, the Associated Press and Northeastern University in Boston tracks mass killings – defined as four or more dead, not including the killer. Two of the tragedies took place in Indianapolis, one apparently was not a shooting. There were 23 mass killings in 2020, down from 45 in 2019, according to […]

Northeastern University has been aggressive in its approach to testing both students and employees. A special lab was set up in Burlington to monitor the tests the school requires everyone to take, and so far, about 800,000 tests have been analyzed.

James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor, collected data back to 1982 showing that assault weapons account for 24.6 percent of public mass shootings.

 “Hate crime laws have important symbolic meaning,” Jack Levin, an expert on hate crimes at Northeastern University, told Vox. “They send a message to two groups: They send it to the perpetrator, informing him that our community will not tolerate his intolerance. And then at the same time, they send a message to potential victims that they […]

Boston 25 News sat down with Northeastern University’s criminology expert, Jack Levin, who has studied these killings for decades. The recent uptick this week, he said, is a vicious cycle.