It is possible that because there are more police patrolling high-crime areas, there are more chances to see unlawful biking and issue tickets, criminologist James Alan Fox of Northeastern University in Boston told the Tribune. Reckless biking could also be seen as falling under the “broken windows” theory of law enforcement, which holds that graffiti […]

The brilliant Hungarian-American physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi told me last week that computers in his laboratory at Northeastern University in Massachusetts already do a better job of assessing the performance of football players than human experts.

Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun agrees. He recently wrote a book called “Robot-Proof.” It is about the effects A.I. might have on the world in the years to come. Aoun says A.I. is already being used in Internet-based education programs. “A.I is being integrated in one way or another, in the education process,” he told […]

“When things change there’s always volatility… You would expect everyone to recalibrate,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor of public policy and urban affairs and economics at Northeastern University. “I think if you see it persist beyond the next month or so, that might signal we’re more worried about the longer term.”

Massachusetts boasts an unmatched talent development channel with a robust catalog of educational opportunities. Traditional degree and online programs from schools such as Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, University of Massachusetts, and WPI, and academic research institutes, including the Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern, Cybersecurity@CSAIL at MIT, and the Cyber Security Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, are a […]

The competitions at the 2018 Winter Olympics are underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea. A full schedule of televised events is available from NBC. The opening ceremony will be broadcast on Friday at 8 p.m. EST. From bobsledding to skiing to figure ice skating, Team USA is 244 people strong  — with 13 members hailing from Massachusetts. Here are the 13 from Massachusetts.

Caralyn Baxter, the head physical therapist for the US halfpipe ski team and a graduate of Northeastern, talks about making her Olympic dream a reality.

“There are some hospital systems that are fairly profitable, but many are not,” said Gary Young, director of center for health policy and healthcare research at Northeastern University. “A general principle is that about one-third have margins that are above zero… probably about one-third of hospitals are pretty close to zero, particularly when you talk […]

More than 200 students from Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Tufts University, Suffolk University and Wellesley College will gather on Saturday for Triple S Day.

Imagine being able to get fresh, locally grown produce here in New England all year round. It doesn’t sound feasible, but a local company created by two Northeastern University graduates has figured out a way to make that possible. Their company is called Freight Farms. They take discarded shipping containers and turn them into working farms.

As a newly minted lawyer in 1961. Michael Meltsner was hired by Thurgood Marshall and his soon-successor, Jack Greenberg, to join the legendary legal team at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He fast became a vital player in the national civil rights movement, helping to shape legal strategy, arguing major cases, and making multiple appearances […]

Article 48 in the state’s constitution bans ballot questions from taking powers away from the treasury by specifically allocating funds. The scope of ballot questions are also limited — they cannot connect two seemingly unrelated things under a single proposal. Daniel Medwed, WGBH’s legal analyst, says opponents of the Fair Share Amendment plan to argue that RaiseUp Massachusetts’ […]