Sidney Gish’s story so far is a familiar one. By day, the 20-year-old singer-songwriter studies music business at Boston’s Northeastern University; by night, she digs deep into lo-fi bedroom pop, anti-folk, and uptempo rock jingles, adding to the wealth of catchy, oddball songs she’s been posting on Bandcamp since 2015.

The analysis was written by researchers at Northeastern University and the final, full report is set to be released in June with more information on police-citizen encounters, police proactivity, police lawfulness and police-community relations.

BPD worked with Northeastern University researchers on the report, which gives preliminary findings into the program. The impact of the body camera program, according to the report, was 12 fewer complaints filed against officers during a one-year period.

The candidate, now headed to human trials for skin infections, adds “an important piece … to the puzzle of creating a perfect antibiotic,” says Kim Lewis, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston who was not involved in the work.

The report focused on two areas — citizen complaints and use of force. In the findings, compiled by researchers at Northeastern University, body-worn cameras “may generate small benefits to the civility of police-citizen civilian encounters.” According to the analysis, body-worn cameras reduced the number of citizen complaints by a small amount — 12 over 12 […]

Many a dissertation has been written on the meaning and impact of “cool” over the years. And to learn more about what, if any, role this powerfully ambiguous term has in the realm of credit cards, we posed the following questions to a panel of professors.

Nicole Boyson, a professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, said a sale could be coming. “ ‘Review strategic alternatives’ is code for sell yourself,” said Boyson, who specializes in activist investors. “The fact that Akamai took the step to hire a well-regarded investment bank to perform a strategic review is a positive […]

“Where the real challenge lies is that cities don’t control entirely their destinies. They rely on transportation, energy networks, communication networks that sprawl across the country, across borders,” says Stephen Flynn, director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University.