Services like Twitter and Snapchat gained favor because they were different from the incumbent powerhouse Facebook: Twitter enabled the broadcast of short messages without requiring two-way interaction, while Snapchat allowed millennials to share their lives with those closest to them without the pressure of gaining shares and likes, noted Koen Pauwels, a professor of marketing […]

Over the next three years, Northeastern University professor Timothy Bickmore and Boston Medical Center doctor Michael Paasche-Orlow will distribute Microsoft Surface tablets preloaded with a chatbot to about 360 patients who have been told they have less than a year to live.

If the group emerges from the crisis unscathed, then its chief, Hassan Nasrallah, “will win by not losing,” said Denis Sullivan, co-director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University in Boston. It’s too late to counter Hezbollah at least not in a “one fell swoop,” said Sullivan. “The cat is out of the bag […]

“It could be an act of trespassing or vandalism. It could be a violent crime, like rape or murder,” Jack Levin, an expert on hate crimes at Northeastern University, previously told me. “But when the motive involves targeting someone because of a difference, then it becomes a hate crime.”

Jennie C. Stephens, the dean’s professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern University and associate director of Northeastern’s Global Resilience Institute, argues for greater regulation to strengthen the grid.

The Massachusetts House and Senate are currently debating legislation that would improve many of the problems with our state’s criminal justice system. The measure is controversial, which is no surprise. Reducing unnecessary prosecutions and prison time while ensuring public safety poses challenges.

Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston, said the statistics reflected the “cumulative effect” of an increase in hate crimes directed at Muslims, immigrants, gay people and others since 9/11. President Trump’s 2016 campaign fed into the trend, he said.

A Massachusetts courthouse has been renamed in honor of the first African American to sit on the state’s highest court. The Hamden County Hall of Justice in Springfield will now be called the Roderick L. Ireland Courthouse. A renaming ceremony was held on Friday. Ireland is now a professor of criminology and criminal justice at […]

“Members of law enforcement and sheriffs seem to be more comfortable articulating controversial, pro-incarceration views than in recent years,” said Daniel Medwed, a law and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “When you have a president who feels comfortable saying things that people would not have said in previous regimes, it emboldens other […]

James Alan Fox, a researcher at Northeastern University, said most mass killings are not preceded by a history of domestic violence. “Let’s just say hypothetically that domestic violence was present in a majority of those cases,” he said. “There are 10 million cases of domestic violence every year. There are 24 mass shootings every year. […]

As the threat from a common enemy “has imploded, tensions between these historic adversaries have escalated,” said Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston.

As students went to and from class Friday on Northeastern’s campus, a red, white and blue wreath decorated the university’s veterans memorial. It was placed there after the school’s annual Veteran’s Day ceremony, during which more than 100 students, veterans, alumni, family and community members gathered to celebrate those who serve their country.