“The findings of the randomized controlled trial suggest that the placement of body worn cameras on Boston Police officers generate small but meaningful benefits to the civility of police-citizen civilian encounters,” said Braga, the Northeastern University researcher. “The study finds that officers wearing cameras received fewer citizen complaints and generated fewer use of force reports […]

In the Spring, N-Powered completed a pilot of its student program with 60 students at Northeastern — as a result the campus call center saw an almost 80 percent reduction in phone requests from those students. Northeastern is now planning to roll out the program to all students starting in the Fall.

Ms. Brothers, an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale), discusses changes that director Eike Schmidt has introduced to almost every aspect of the renowned Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Dr. Lewis, a Lyme Disease researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, and his team are working on developing new treatments for Lyme Disease under a $1.5 million grant.

Busing students across the city has been the subject of bruising debates over four decades in Boston. The discussion intensified last week in the wake of a new report by Northeastern University that revealed a four-year-old computerized system used to assign students to schools is exacerbating segregation and leaving many black and Latino students in low-performing schools, […]

When they mess up, companies should focus on building relationships rather than apologizing profusely, says Paul Fombelle, a marketing professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. At the same time, owners shouldn’t ask, “what can we do to make you happy,” the equivalent of a blank check.

Perhaps, or perhaps not, said Woodrow Hartzog, who teaches law and computer science at Northeastern University. “The idea that this is simply neutral technology that can be used for good or evil and Amazon shouldn’t be responsible, I think is purely wrong,” he said.

I asked Dave Choffnes, an assistant professor at Northeastern University whose research focuses on privacy and security in mobile devices, for some suggestions to help stop the surveillance.

Briggs’ subjects are much smaller, spikier, and perhaps less obviously charismatic. They are the mussels, barnacles, algae, crabs and sea stars that create the complex and delicate miniature ecosystems along coastal areas. Briggs is here as an undergraduate researcher and photographer on a research trip for Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center. His photos will appear […]