Researchers say the number of mass shootings has remained fairly steady over the past three decades with occasional fluctuations. “Some years are worse than others and bad years tend to be followed by not so bad years,” said James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has been studying mass shootings since […]

Radio Boston spoke with Northeastern professor Max Abrahms to better understand soft targets in terrorist attacks.

Debate about how to prepare workers for the future has largely focused on what educators and employers are doing and could do more of. For academics such as Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern University, the two entities would ideally create joint-curricula that ensure students have the skills that employers will eventually want.

One of the retail startups in our list is Cardly, a startup born out of Northeastern University that sells eye-candy phone pockets to a Millennial audience.

Northeastern professor Max Abrahms argues that the rollback of the Islamic State must come as a shock to the chorus of journalists and analysts who spent years insisting that such progress would never happen without toppling the regime of Bashar Assad.

“We take people with a health problem and we throw them in a place where they’re not receiving evidence-based help, then those folks are released into the community with little support and no linkage to programs,” said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.

“Some systems are doing really well in this country. That doesn’t mean all systems and all facilities are doing well,” says Gary Young, a health policy professor at Northeastern University.