These numbers are not static — they’re rising. Research compiled by James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University, and Emma E. Fridel, a doctoral student at the time, measured a 19 percent increase in homicides by intimate partners from 2014 to 2017 alone.

Students at Northeastern University, in Boston, all participate in the school’s signature experience — a semester “co-op” where they work full-time for a semester.

WGBH Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed about a case that has caught his attention this month. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.

A recent study conducted by the experts at UC Berkeley and Northeastern University has now made it evident that brain scans, when conducted at an early stage, could point out whether a youngster is at risk of any mental health conditions or attention issues in the future.

An exhaustive study of economics seminars, presented by Alicia Sasser Modestino of Northeastern University on behalf of several co-authors, found that female economists face far more questions from men in the audience during their presentations than male economists do. 

The lawsuit reflects a growing understanding of the role that organizations played in allowing abuse to occur, said Rose Zoltek-Jick, a law professor at Northeastern University.

Whether you’ll want to, say, provide a concierge service to care for pets, create craft items or run a nonprofit for a cause you love, getting things going before you retire also offers an opportunity to assess if there is a demand beyond your friends and family, said Kimberly A. Eddleston, a Northeastern University entrepreneurship […]

The podcast cites the work of Northeastern University Rebecca Shanskey, who I found cited in a story on the university website from May 2019.

“The so-called ‘rules of engagement’ have been broken. This means that increasingly preemptive attacks will replace the condition of deterrence which offered a measure of stability,” said Max Abrahms, a professor at Northeastern University and fellow at the Quincy Institute think tank.

According to a database compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University, there were more mass killings in 2019 — a total of 41 — than in any year dating back to at least the 1970s.

“The findings suggest that the mother-in-law’s restrictive behaviour is ultimately driven by her preferences and attitudes about fertility and family planning… Women who have fewer close outside peers are less likely to visit health facilities to receive reproductive health, fertility, or family planning services, and are less likely to use modern contraceptive methods,” the researchers […]

“For a person bent on hate crime against a particular religion or race, you go to a place where you know a lot of people in that group will be congregating — and vulnerable,” said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Boston’s Northeastern University. “One place you can go to find people of a certain […]