“You can’t get people excited about gun control because there’s a domestic homicide, an isolated case somewhere in America,” said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University. “You can’t even get them excited because there are 45 of them a day.”

I’d just lazily plopped myself onto the family room sofa and was scrolling through email on my phone. CNN was playing in the background as commentators issued observations about whatever newsy thing the president had done or said in the past few hours. That’s when I saw it. The email from my son’s high school […]

Neither the Obama administration then or the Trump administration now has avoided intruding into the important newsgathering role of the press, but it’s a big mistake to equate the two. Attacking the press is pervasive with Trump. Obama practices were situational. Trump is playing his “nobody can criticize me” card. Wrong as his judgment may […]

Academic research around disinformation isn’t new, but our empirical understanding of how to cope with the tactic remains limited. Northeastern University’s Briony Swire-Thompson researches the cognitive psychology behind disinformation effectiveness. “It is important to let the public know as soon as possible where the information comes from,” she explained. “This is because when deciding on […]

Although the panelists stressed that better education will help ensure that US workers don’t lose out to computers and robots, Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun warned that today’s colleges aren’t prepared to deliver the kind of training workers will need.

When Anthony Bourdain visited the San Francisco Bay Area in 2015 for his CNN show “Anthony Bourdain:Parts Unknown,” he made a point of sitting down for a meal with one of the founders of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale. And he didn’t just talk about the food. He provided viewers an astute history of the group, […]

The study, authored by Matthew Nisbet, Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, analyzed $556.7 million in “behind-the-scenes” grants distributed by 19 major environmental foundations from 2011-2015 in the immediate aftermath of the failure to pass cap-and-trade legislation in 2010.

Northeastern University School of Law has selected one of its longtime professors, James Hackney, to take over as dean of an institution whose graduates are passing the bar and landing attorney work at significantly higher rates than they were a few years ago.

Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University, which developed a successful bootcamp, wrote Robot-Proof, a book where he suggests that the programs can be part of a path going forward where schools offer a combination of data, technological and human literacy so that students can “invent, create, and discover” and fill “needs in society that even the […]

The Army has long had a research campus in Natick, and it has expanded research and development facilities in the Boston area more recently, launching an innovation unit in Kendall Square to tap startups in 2016 and choosing Northeastern University’s Burlington campus for a new research lab just this April.

But there is a tension at the heart of this automation vs. augmentation debate that wasn’t really addressed at the conference. There was much discussion, for example, of the need for workers to continually renew their skills, and advocacy for that old chestnut “lifelong learning.” Joseph Aoun, the President of Northeastern University, was particularly strong […]

Four mass shootings since last October, each with double-digit death tolls, has us all searching for solutions. Although the venues were varied — two high schools, a Texas church and an open-air music festival — the common denominator to these massacres is, of course, the use of firearms and an ample supply of ammunition.