“Pride makes you value long-term goals more than present ones, like having fun, and builds self-control and grit from the bottom up,” says David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and author of “Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion and Pride.” Chasing pride has been found to encourage adult runners to train harder and assist […]

This spring, thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, [Northeastern is] launching a new Boston Research Center, where they plan to compile and study the city’s history using modern tools, hoping to glean new revelations about the place we live.

The new U.S. embassy was opened on the 70th anniversary of the state of Israel being established. It’s an anniversary that young Jewish Americans may not be as eager to celebrate as their parents or grandparents were, writes Dov Waxman. According to Waxman, a professor of Israel studies at Northeastern University, younger generations of Jews have generally felt […]

Job-training programs, formal apprenticeship programs, and co-ops programs like that at Northeastern University can be effective, but they require investment and a long-term commitment from employers.

Gregory Connolly, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has studied iQOS technology and patents, said Philip Morris’ ability to gather user data could give the device remarkable power. “What they’re going to have is a mega database of how Americans smoke,” he said. “Then they’ll be able to reprogram the current puffing delivery […]

“What the Supreme Court has done is to facilitate expanding gambling basically to everybody’s desktop,” said critic Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University, who runs Public Health Advocacy Institute.

“I fear Dershowitz has allowed his celebrity to stand as an apology for a great danger to the civil liberties he claims to cherish,” said Northeastern Law School professor Michael Meltsner, former first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “Alan is fiddling while Washington burns.”

Dov Waxman, Northeastern University professor of political science, discusses what’s behind the clashes on the Gaza-Israel border with David Westin and Shery Ahn on “Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power.”

After the first Annual State of Critical Thinking report came out in 2017, MindEdge’s Frank Connolly interviewed Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy about his reactions to the study.  Kennedy reminded us that fake news is nothing new, citing examples such as a fake story about the 1890 explosion of the USS Maine in Cuba that led to war.

Sarah J Jackson, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, believes context is the key to anchoring Me Too. “I wouldn’t call hashtag ‘Me Too’ a movement at all,” she says. “I would call it a campaign that is part of a larger movement. So I would call women’s rights the movement, and feminism […]

If enacted, the rule could force a mother to weigh the need for hospital inpatient care for an ailing newborn against losing her legal immigration status, says Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.

“Lots of serial killers develop gradually. A lot of them start with lesser offenses, develop to sex offenses and eventually murder,” said James Alan Fox, professor of criminology at Northeastern University and author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.”