Boston Police are solving more homicides After years of lagging behind the rest of the country in solving homicides, the department’s upgrade has yielded a 10 percent jump in the rate at which detectives solved murders over a two-year period, according to a Northeastern University study released recently and publicized last week by the researcher and Boston police. The stepped-up effort, […]
New England Public Radio Facing Change: As New England Ages, Immigrants Make Up A Growing Share Of Health Workers Adding all of this together reveals some unsustainable labor trends. Barry Bluestone, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University who’s run some of the jobs numbers, predicts that in Massachusetts, “we’re going to need about 93,000 additional home care workers over the next 10 years, or almost 10,000 a year.”
Japan Times Fukushima’s ¥8 trillion cleanup leaves foreign firms in the cold “Foreign firms have long argued that the Japanese bidding process is one that is ripe for corruption due to a lack of openness and transparency,” Daniel Aldrich, professor and director of the security and resilience studies program at Northeastern University in Boston, said in an e-mail. For nuclear decommissioning “there is even less clarity and […]
Michael Dukakis takes tumble for a cleaner Boston Michael Dukakis sometimes got roughed up politically as governor of Masschusetts and Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. Last week he got roughed up literally — all in the name of a cleaner Boston. A passerby spotted Dukakis with blood on his face the morning of Dec. 8, but Dukakis said it was just a mishap. […]
Special Report: Stronger ‘superbugs,’ and no new drugs to fight them Now, as happened in Alaska, doctors are encountering superbugs that are developing resistance to colistin, too. “We are losing the standoff with pathogens,” said antibiotic researcher Kim Lewis, a Northeastern University biochemist. “Without antibiotics, essentially you do not have modern medicine.”
Federal authorities to investigate O.C. district attorney over jailhouse informants Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University and an expert on wrongful convictions, said there is a belief among defense attorneys that the use of informants is often based on a “wink and a nod” instead of an explicit arrangement. The other problem prosecutors face when relying on jailhouse informants is […]
How Is Rex Tillerson, Trump’s Secretary of State Pick, Going to Handle Russia? To learn more about what all this means for US-Russia relations, I called Harlow Robinson, a history professor at Northeastern University, who told me among other things that Tillerson’s conflicts of interests were unprecedented and that Russian hackers will never relent. Here’s what we talked about.
Quartz Psychology explains why so many leaders pass the buck—and who is really to blame Leaders know all too well that with great power comes great responsibility. This mantra has been echoed by luminaries including Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and even Spiderman. It is the great charge of a leader to shoulder responsibility for making decisions that will have profound implications for many. But that doesn’t come […]
New Scientist Antibacterial products may help bacteria beat antibiotics We don’t know why triclosan has these effects, but one explanation might lie in the different ways that antibiotics and antibacterials work. Most antibiotics kill bacteria by interfering with essential steps in their life cycle, such as making cell walls. Since triclosan prevents bacteria from growing, they may not go through as many life cycle […]
The Christian Science Monitor The answer to America’s working class job crisis is hard, but not mysterious “The one thing we do know is at the very bottom end if you don’t advance the skills of those who don’t graduate or barely graduate from high school, they are surely going to be left behind,” says Alicia Modestino, an associate professor of public policy at Northeastern University in Boston who studies labor markets.
How Disease Detectives Unearthed A Forgotten Drug To Fight A Lethal Illness Fexinidazole “is an excellent example of drug discovery scientists ‘rescuing’ a compound that was otherwise in the dustbin of a large drug company,” said Michael Pollastri, an associate processor in medicinal chemistry at Northeastern University who wasn’t involved with this research, in an earlier interview with HuffPost. “It’s a perfect example of how valuable it can be to […]
The Washington Times Donald Trump ignores critics, revitalizes presidential bully pulpit on Twitter “I would hope that he’d continue to use Twitter even as president, as it is a natural medium of communication for him,” said John P. Wihbey, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who studies presidential communication. “It is useful for citizens to know what he’s thinking about and his ideas on policy issues. I’m all […]