Jonathan Kaufman, director of the Northeastern School of Journalism, covered the revolutions of 1989 for the Globe. He is the author of “The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China” to be published by Viking in June.

The dearth of hate crime convictions “has been a problem for a long time, and it’s a problem in every state,” said Jack McDevitt, a Northeastern University criminologist and hate crime expert. “It sends a message back to the victims and to members of the victims’ communities that we’re not going to convict on a […]

Adam I. Cooper, an associate teaching professor in the linguistics program at Northeastern University, said in an e-mail to the Globe that “OK, Boomer” is compelling because it stands out from other slang terms for its “direct acknowledgment of this generational power imbalance.”

Together with James Heathers, a postdoctoral researcher in behavioural science at Northeastern University in Boston, he has probed numerous instances of questionable data. 

New research put out in November 2019 by Northeastern University, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s IBM Watson Lab in Boston, proposes a new type of T-shirt that allows people to mask themselves from people-detecting surveillance detectors by wearing tops with “adversarial” printed images on them.

The DEA would be better off legalizing fentanyl testing strips and getting behind overdose prevention sites, thereby reducing the harm of drug use, according to Jeremiah Goulka, a researcher and senior fellow at the Health in Justice Action Lab at the Northeastern University School of Law.

A number of carriers — including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon — throttle content even at off-peak times, according to researchers from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“Overall, the Jewish vote is not really significant in determining presidential elections,” says Northeastern University’s Prof. Dov Waxman, who has written extensively over the years on the politics and culture of the American Jewish community. 

Daniel Cohen, the Dean of the Northeastern Library, said that the Boston Research Center brings together a wealth of information and archival materials about Boston’s neighborhoods. “We’re all familiar with the stories about Boston that we see and read in textbooks and see in documentaries,” Cohen said.

Recently, scientists at Northeastern University and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, created an “adversarial t-shirt” that sported printed images to enable somebody to fool human detection systems.

Jeremiah Goulka, a researcher and senior fellow at the Health in Justice Action Lab at the Northeastern University School of Law, has an explanation for this “perpetual motion machine.”

Kimberly A. Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University and a senior editor on the EIX Editorial Board of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis.