NECN Teenagers to terrorists? In the wake of suspected terrorist Usaamah Rahim’s death, Craig Gruber of Northeastern University’s Homeland Security program discusses how young people may become radicalized and violent.
Why body counts are a bad metric for judging Islamic state fight Estimates of Islamic State’s membership have been “all over the place,” said Max Abrahms, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston who specializes in Islamic militant groups. The 10,000 casualty estimate seems high “because there is a widespread view that Islamic State’s membership size has been growing,” he said. The use […]
Coming out from the cloister A couple of years ago, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof stirred up a bit of controversy with a piece he published in the paper’s “Sunday Review” section titled “Professors, We Need You!” The gist of Kristof’s argument is that academia has become so insular as to have little to no impact on the day-to-day […]
The Christian Science Monitor Why you shouldn’t be worried about the 2015 crime spike “What goes down generally comes back up,” says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston. “There are certain cities that have had short term spikes, but we would not be noticing it were it not for fact that we have seen some successes over the past few years.”
Forbes Summer jobs are an economic step up A study by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies found that program participants were significantly more likely than their comparison group peers to experience a drop in risky, deviant, or violent behaviors. Moreover, the percentage of participants who had a job lined up for after the program’s completion was more than double that of […]
A talking teddy bear practicing in the pediatric hospital The hospital is beginning to collect and analyze the data with the help of researchers from Northeastern University. Dr. Weinstock hopes the study will help doctors better understand children’s emotional states, something he has referred to as the fourth vital sign. “We think a lot about heart rate, blood pressure and how much oxygen is […]
Preparing your children, and your wallet, for college… Sure-fire strategies to lessen the fnancial pain a. The Federal Work-Study Program offers students paid positions either on or off campus. Approximately 3,400 postsecondary institutions offer work-study positions. b. An internship allows a student to work in a real-world setting in a field he or she is interested in pursuing as a career. Many companies end up hiring their interns full time […]
Wallet Hub 2015’s best and worst cities for baseball fans The MLB has to face the recurring business issue of attracting the next generation of fans. The game (my favorite) can be slow and (dare I say) boring. Comm. Manfred (who has visited my Sports Law class) is aware of the need to keep the game moving forward. Cutting time off the average game seems […]
UPI Researchers locate predictive center of the brain “What your brain is trying to do is guess what the sensation means and what’s causing the sensations so it can figure out what to do about them,” said Lisa Feldman Barrett, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, in a press […]
WGBH All revved up about St. Frances X. Cabrini and the Pope The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III joined Boston Public Radio for their regular Monday feature, “All Revved Up.” Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist who writes for Huffington Post and Bay Windows. Price is a professor of music atNortheastern University, and author of The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture.
What could economists do with all that cell-phone data? While many Americans are aware of (and weary of) how the government is using cell-phone data to develop its counterterrorism intelligence, this data may be even more powerful for researchers (in the government and out) who are trying to understand the dynamics of the economy. A team of researchers recently did an experiment investigating just […]
Mass. economy outpaces US’s Driving the growth are the state’s technology, biotechnology, and health care sectors, which have expanded solidly in recent years, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economist and author of the report. In addition, companies in another key sector, financial services, are hiring again, after several difficult years following the last recession and 2008 financial crisis.