According to research compiled by the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law, the private was last seen alive in a white neighborhood at Fort Benning on Feb. 12, 1941. Then he seemed to disappear for weeks — F.B.I. records suggest that Army officials did not look for him — and […]

Patricia Illingworth, a philosophy professor and philanthropy expert at Northeastern University, acknowledged that “as head of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker has been a moral leader who has improved the lives and wellbeing of countless people”. Yet, she added, as a PepsiCo director, “Walker confers moral legitimacy on the very injustices that he has worked […]

Minkara is a professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University and creator of a new documentary series: Planes, Trains and Canes seeks to understand the cultural perceptions about disabilities through travel.

“There’s been a great deal of attention and energy focused on apprenticeships for the last four years or so,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. “And we see them as one important model on a broader spectrum of work-integrated or experiential learning. Many […]

“Here we are on the cusp of another school year and we have the delta variant rising; we have kids under 12 who cannot even be vaccinated; and at the same time we have companies saying, ‘Everybody back in the office,’ and also schools saying, ‘Everybody back to school,'” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist and […]

Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a panelist on WGBH 2’s Beat the Press.

In July, researchers at Northeastern University and elsewhere reported the results of an ongoing national survey that started in April 2020. 

“The cold truth is that Americans care much more about keeping safe from terrorism than the humanitarian nightmare unfolding in Afghanistan,” Max Abrahms, terrorism expert and professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Fox News.

It’s true that some of the chaos in Afghanistan was inevitable. “It was very obvious what was going to happen,” says Max Abrahms, a professor at Northeastern University and an expert in international security. “The nation building has been a failure. The Afghan government is seen as a stooge. And over the past few years, the Taliban […]

In 2015, John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University, analyzed the effects of forty-six mergers approved by the federal government. Kwoka found that, as a result of thirty-eight of them, prices for consumers rose by more than ten per cent on average, an empirical rebuke to the contention of Robert Bork that mergers are either […]

“Very often, when you’re able to articulate clearly what your expectations are on the basis of legal rights, landlords will back down or at least pause before they make demands of you, some of which may be illegal,” said Rashmi Dyal-Chand, a property law professor at Northeastern University. “That’s not always going to be the case, […]

“There’s no question that vaccine hesitancy, and the low vaccination rate that we have so far across the U.S., is making it difficult to forge ahead with this economic recovery,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor of public policy and urban affairs and economics at Northeastern University.