The Portland-based Roux Institute at Northeastern University said Thursday it will use a $100 million grant from the Harold Alfond Foundation to expand research, fund scholarships and support work cooperatives with Maine employers.

“We seem to be moving in the opposite direction from the country in terms of the number of people who are participating in the labor force, which means that our improvement in the unemployment rate is maybe not as rosy as it might seem,” Modestino, who is associate director of the Dukakis Center for Urban […]

Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland will receive $100 million as part of a massive $500 million pledge from the Harold Alfond Foundation to eight colleges, universities and organizations in Maine.

In for Jim Braude, Adam Reilly was joined by Dr. Sandra Nelson, an infectious disease physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, who has been helping to guide the Baker administration on school reopening plans, and Sam Scarpino, an assistant professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern […]

U.S. testing had largely stopped earlier this month due to problems with test kits. Odds were good the virus had taken hold in as many as 15 states, Northeastern researchers found. 

I put this question to Northeastern University Professor James Alan Fox, who has studied mass shootings and workplace violence since the early 1980s. He said shooting trends are more like a “general contagion,” in that once they get publicized, a small group of people identify with the shooters and replicate their actions.

“This phenomenal investment from the Harold Alfond Foundation will uplift people and communities across Maine – today, tomorrow and for generations to come,” Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern, said Thursday in the news release announcing the grant. “The vision of the Roux Institute is to create economic prosperity and opportunity through innovative research and […]

A Maine-based philanthropic fund has donated $100 million to the new Portland campus of Northeastern University to attract and retain talent in the state and target women, veterans and people of color, according to the university.

Alan Schroeder is a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. 

The result is that lots of harmful mergers are approved, argues John Kwoka, an economist at Northeastern University who has researched mergers in concentrated markets.

“Things are likely to get bad in the winter if what we continue to do is relax measures in places where COVID-19 cases are high or increasing,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston, where he directs the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.

Northeastern University Professor Alan Clayton-Matthews also presented budget-writers with a range of estimates, saying he projected this year’s tax collections to end up somewhere between $29.324 billion and $29.834 billion.