Though Gerald Herman had a nearly endless list of interests, his career was always his favorite hobby. A prolific reader and a charismatic professor, he jumped at every opportunity to instill his love of history in others, whether through the classes he taught at Northeastern University or while visiting the Imperial War Museums in London […]

Political science Prof. Costas Panagopoulos of Northeastern University said lawmakers are playing a dangerous game by joining Trump’s attacks against the FBI.

To learn more about these mind-boggling crimes, we turned to Enzo Yaksic, co-director of Northeastern University’s Atypical Homicide Research Group. The AHRG is an active network of 150 researchers, law enforcement professionals and practitioners organized to address the societal issue of serial and mass homicide.

“You don’t want to be a meme the next day. And you don’t want to have GIFs of you gulping water over and over again,” said Northeastern University professor Alan Schroeder, a reference to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s awkward water break during the GOP’s 2013 official response.

Meanwhile, one sports researcher said that if true, the allegations of withholding food and water as punishment for poor performances is an “egregious” and ineffective way of coaching. But there have been “millions” of variations of the type of behavior alleged against three Andover High School hockey coaches, said Dan Lebowitz of Northeastern University’s Center […]

“A lot of fans and audiences are coming into contact with new artists and forms that were on the edge of their taste palate,” said Murray Forman, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Forman also pointed to rising stars such as Khalid and Lil Uzi Vert, both up for Best New Artist, who came […]

The critically endangered Mexican axolotl can regenerate body parts better than practically any other vertebrate on the planet. If a limb is lost, a limb can be regrown. “We need to figure out why and hopefully mimic that in humans,” says Northeastern University’s James Monaghan, who studies the biology of regeneration in the salamander species.

Boston has been trying to find a solution for its growing traffic problems in part by efforts to link its commuter rail lines, says Barry Bluestone, professor of public policy at Northeastern University in Boston. “Our town has the talent and the excitement (to win the bid), but we have to find a way to […]

The biggest criticism from Lu Ann Reeb, a former executive producer at WBZ, and Alan Schroeder, a former television producer, is that NBC didn’t try to reinvent the local newscast. “There was an opportunity to produce something different,” said Reeb, who now teaches entrepreneurship at Emerson College. Added Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University: […]

A Norwood teen bravely battling cancer became the newest and youngest member of the Northeastern University women’s soccer team Thursday night. Caeleigh Brown, 13, was diagnosed with leukemia nearly one year ago and had to undergo daily chemotherapy treatments while enduring a long stint in the hospital. But Thursday night was a night to celebrate for the […]

As news executives contemplate what it will be like to live in a post-Facebook world, they should be thinking about what it would take to revive the media habits that prevailed before Facebook became our most important news distributor. It won’t be easy. But consider the path that the Post has taken since Amazon chief […]

Stephen Intille, an associate professor at Northeastern University who studies health technology, has run studies on sensor systems that connect to mobile phones to track movement. One of the studies he’s co-authored is specifically about how people’s intention to exercise connects with whether they do, in fact, work out.