In a national survey of employers that we at Northeastern University recently conducted, a strong majority of HR leaders said that the value of educational credentials in hiring has either increased (48%) or held steady (29%) over the last five years. 

n 2012, Marsel Mesulam of Northwestern University published a landmark paper that explored the brain architecture associated age-defying youthful memory capacity in a handful of 80+ year-olds who seemed to have freakishly good memory power. 

Gallagher, a vice chancellor for global learning opportunities and a professor of English at Northeastern University, responded via email to questions.

Ms. Brothers is an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale).

“Whatever they do, it’s never going to be perfect,” said Christo Wilson, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “We just have to accept that an adult could be flagged as a child, or it just doesn’t see a child. Regardless of how much machine learning they have, they need to have some sort […]

WGBH Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the legal issues at play in this debate.

Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor and author of the blog Media Nation, said that GateHouse is not alone in cutting newsroom staffers: Most major newspaper owners in the country have done the same over the past several years. However, he said, given how lean GateHouse’s papers have already become, “it’s hard to imagine how they […]

According to Bruce Clark, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University, nostalgia is a particularly effective marketing tool. “There’s some evidence that nostalgia makes people a little less price sensitive,” he says. “There is the idea that seasonal scarcity is something that gets customers excited, so the fact that something is only available for […]

Such worry was reflected in a recent Northeastern University and Gallup survey that found 71 percent of Americans feared the surge in AI would cause more job loss than gain.

Emergency service dispatchers are trained to deal with people who are experiencing “the worst day of their lives,” says Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, an associate professor in the department of communication studies at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Researchers lean heavily on the information that Twitter provides to study the spread of disinformation, said David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University. “In the study of social media, it dominates because it’s so open,” he said.

A study by academics at Imperial College London and Northeastern University in Boston has found that smart TVs in Britain and America may be sending “extensive information” about their users to companies other than the manufacturer.