ABC News AP finds Boston Police inflate progress on searches, frisks Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice, said further data analysis controlling for gang behavior and other factors is a critical piece of the puzzle because Boston police are using field interrogations, observations, frisks and searches largely to crack down on gang activity. “The goal would be to see whether that […]
KPCC Generation Z job-seekers turn to smartphones for help That “annoying” focus on the phone might worry some older parents or mentors about the fate of Gen Z in the workplace, but professor Brooke Foucault Welles of Northeastern University says it shouldn’t. “I understand why people can get frustrated that they’re always looking at their phones, but I don’t think that that’s a signal […]
Boston Magazine Boston Magazine: Local scientists are helping NASA make robotic astronauts he space agency has been working on a humanoid robot of its own and is seeking help in readying it (or its successor) for manned missions to asteroids and Mars. NASA needs a humanoid robot because all of the agency’s tools and equipment are designed for humans. That was fine when actual humans did all […]
Gender bias in hedge funds? The lack of capital doesn’t just stunt the growth of the funds run by women, the report says—it’s often fatal for the funds. “Funds with at least one female manager fail at higher rates, driven by difficulty in raising capital,” says the report, written by Rajesh Aggarwal and Nicole M. Boyson, professors at the D’Amore-McKim […]
The Patriot Ledger Remembering a day that was too big to forget This month marks the anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns, once Wall Street’s fifth-largest investment bank. The demise of the 85-year old institution signaled the real start of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Eight years later, we can only hope our leaders learned something from the experience. The collapse and Bear’s subsequent bailout by the […]
How paying off all my debt changed my life Having debt impacts what an individual can and cannot do, says Coleen Pantalone, a finance professor at the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. “Carrying too much debt limits choice, sometimes self-imposed and sometimes imposed by a low credit score, leading to lenders refusing to lend more,” she says. “We often hear today […]
Northeastern student takes mini-Jimmy Fallon abroad Halle O’Conor, a fourth-year student at Northeastern University who is traveling abroad in Italy, has been placing and taking pictures of the 8-inch replica of Fallon around Italy’s many cities. She then posts the humorous images to her Instagram account, “Jimmy Fallon Studies Abroad.” She is hoping the stunt will grab Fallon’s attention, and secure […]
Psychology is in crisis over whether it’s in crisis That has reduced this fight to one over statistics, which obscures the bigger question: Why were those studies so difficult to do over in the first place? Psychology experiments have to deal with humans—stupid, finicky humans who might act differently depending on the time of day, whether or not they’ve eaten, if they had a […]
Nanowerk MesoGlue: A game-changing substance for nanotechnology MesoGlue first came about when Stagon was a PhD. student for Dr. Hanchen Huang at Northeastern University. Stagon continued the project when he became an assistant professor at UNF in 2014. Both UNF and Northeastern University share the pending patent of MesoGlue.This metallic adhesive is game-changing in several ways. It would improve heat transfer for […]
Mass. senate committee crafts plan to address housing ‘crisis’ One of the committee members is Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center, who has been advocating for colleges and universities to support the construction of millennial villages. “Unfortunately, because we have so little housing for [graduate students] and very little graduate housing beside Harvard and MIT, those folks are taking over housing that was intended […]
Where the whale things are Whales, the biggest animals on the planet, are also among the hardest to find. They spend most of their time submerged and unseen. But not unheard: Whales are noisy animals that flood the oceans with songs, clicks, moans, and calls. And Purnima Ratilal from Northeastern University has developed a way of listening in on these calls […]
Today ‘Tonight Show’ fan travels Europe with Jimmy Fallon cutout, hoping for internship The account was created by Northeastern University student Halle O’Conor, who’s hoping to score an internship at “The Tonight Show.” O’Conor got the idea from her mother, who once took trips with a “Flat Stanley” (a paper doll based on a popular 1964 children’s book featuring a little boy who is flattened by a book […]