“It was important to do things, to make a statement, and I was going to be a part of it,” said King, who lives in Hyde Park and has been a math professor at Northeastern University for 37 years.

Many experts — like James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University and author of several books on school violence — say that sworn law enforcement officers are the only people who should carry guns in schools.

“The nominal price of a ticket for a particular performance is usually established by the artist and the manager, sometimes with input from the promoter,” writes John E. Kwoka, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied and written on the concert industry, in a published study.

Because superhero blockbusters demand that philosophers must also pulverize, Thanos matches his big brain with bigger purple muscles. He doesn’t just look the brutish part. Based on a recent “whimsical by design” analysis, Northeastern University engineering assistant professor Steven Cranford calculated that Thanos is powerful enough to dead-lift the RMS Titanic.

Knake, a senior fellow for cyber policy at CFR and a senior research scientist at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, noted that the Department of Defense already uses such a network for sharing intelligence with cleared defense contractors on threats to their companies. This system, he says, could be replicated as a way to share […]

Nevertheless, it would be wrong to ignore the fact that an increasing number of women do find guns empowering; women are the fastest-growing gun ownership demographic. According to a study from Harvard and Northeastern University, gun ownership among American men dropped from 42% in 1994 to 32% in 2015, while female ownership increased from 9% to 12%.

Yet the reality is that school shootings are extraordinarily rare — and, our perceptions notwithstanding, have actually been declining since the 1990s, according to James Alan Fox, professor of criminology, law, and public policy at Northeastern University, who has analyzed school shootings nationwide. This “is not an epidemic,” Fox told the university’s news service. Though […]

“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 […]