“Rhetoric in this space has vastly outpaced what we know,” said David Lazer, a professor of political science and computer and information sciences at Northeastern University. 

Now a study conducted by the School of Journalism at Northeastern University has quantified just how bad things are. Looking at about 10,000 news articles from 28 ideologically diverse news outlets published between March and October, my colleagues and I found that coverage of the Democratic candidates “tracks with the ebbs and flows of scandals, viral moments […]

“This case is very different from many of the other cases where dealers are charged in overdose deaths, because it was intentional,” Leo Beletsky, the faculty director of Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Action Lab, told The Washington Post.

Now we are publishing a trend analysis of these studies—developed by Northeastern University media and communications professors John Wihbey and Brooke Welles — that examines how student views have changed over the past 15 years.

Sean Gallagher, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, said that the demographic information demonstrates that microcredentials and MOOCs are accomplishing something different than what was originally framed as their potential. 

The status and future of the settlements are a “longstanding, divisive debate” among American Jews, said Dov Waxman, a professor of Jewish studies at Northeastern University.

“If Lomas’s intervention involves writing in a journal, that may overlap a lot with gratitude journaling,” said Katie Hoemann, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Northeastern University who researches the interaction between language and emotion. “And if you’re doing the intervention in a social context, you’re probably getting social benefits, too.” The variables may be difficult […]

According to a 2014 study from Northeastern University, 72% believe colleges should allow students to develop their own majors and courses of study.

Another analysis of drug-induced homicide news stories, conducted by the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University, found that 50 percent of people who were charged under drug-induced homicide laws were either friends, caretakers, partners or family members.

“Facebook has enough data that it probably knows who the users who are most likely to click on these sort of scammy things are,” said Alan Mislove, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and one of the authors of the paper. 

Along with professor Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, Selinger has spent years studying the subject. 

There have been eight mass killings in California so far this year, claiming the lives of 33 people, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.