15 Top Colleges For Launching Your Career Back To The Future: Northeastern University’s co-op program, established in 1909, makes it a hot ticket in today’s tough, AI-inflected job market.
In an age of streaming and AI slop, parents and researchers worry about a shrinking PBS Kids Meryl Alper, an associate professor at Northeastern University who studies children’s media, has worked with both public and private organizations that create kids’ content.
This octopus pigment could lead to a more sustainable sunscreen “The oxidized form is yellow or goldenrod color, and the reduced form can be a really deep red,” says Daniel Wilson, a principal research scientist at the Kostas Research Institute at Northeastern University.
Fox News Mass killings fall to lowest level in nearly two decades, national database shows The database, maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, defines a mass killing as an incident in which four or more people are intentionally killed within a 24-hour period, excluding the perpetrator.
This book chronicles the British aristocrat who dedicated her life to social justice I chatted with Kaplan, who is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University, about Mitford and her legacy.
The Telegraph The secret life of Decca, the most rebellious Mitford sister Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan is published on Dec 4.
6 New Books We Love This Week One of the six famous Mitford sisters, Jessica — known as Decca, a childhood nickname — was a left-wing activist first and muckraking journalist second, best known for “The American Way of Death,” her scathing 1963 exposé of the funeral industry.
Local TV stations are losing viewers. A new ‘survival guide’ urges a digital-first pivot. That’s the message in a new report from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project, which last month released a “survival guide” that urges local stations to prioritize digital-first programming to reach younger audiences that don’t tune into the traditional broadcast.
Air Mail Days of Decca Now Carla Kaplan brings us Troublemaker, the first biography of Jessica, the runaway Mitford who decamped to America, joined the Communist Party, and became a successful author, named by Time magazine as “Queen of the Muckrakers.”
The Spectator Jessica was the only Mitford worth taking seriously In the wake of all this, Carla Kaplan’s exhaustively researched and thorough account of Jessica (or Decca, as everyone knew her and Kaplan calls her throughout) comes as a welcome relief.
US mass killings are down in 2025, but experts say it’s likely just a return to more typical levels “Sir Isaac Newton never studied crime, but he says ‘What goes up must come down,’” said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.
Mass killings in U.S. fall to nearly two-decade low: database The mass killings — defined as incidents in which four or more people are killed in a 24-hour period, not including the killer — are tracked in the database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Fox, who manages the database, says mass killings were down about 24% this year compared […]
