Boston-based fintech startup Elsen Inc. raised $930,000 out of a $1.75 million offered, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Why it matters: Elsen, founded by three Northeastern University students, is on an interesting path for an early startup. It signed on to power Thomson Reuter’s investment analysis software back in April after having raised less […]

Even though the group that the Charlottesville suspect is alleged to have attacked seems to have included people from various demographic groups, federal prosecutors could argue that the suspect believed those people belonged to one group and targeted them because of that perception, according to Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice […]

Daniel Faber is director of the Northeastern University Environmental Justice Research Collaborative. He’s crunched some numbers and according to his findings,Chelsea is one of the most environmentally overburdened places in the state. “Communities that lack the political, economic power to defend themselves, where residents work longer hours, and they have less resources and are less educated, […]

Transmission persists at low but steady levels in some parts of Latin America, including Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, agrees Alessandro Vespignani, a modeler at Northeastern University in Boston who collaborates with Longini. And recorded cases are just the tip of the iceberg because 80% of infected people have no symptoms, he says. “If the number […]

According to a first-of-its-kind study conducted by a team of researchers at Northeastern University, there is “a modest correlation between the ideologies of who a journalist follows on Twitter and the content he or she produces.” Of course, correlation isn’t causation, so the question will require more research for a definitive answer. The study, released […]

Machine learning in particular has seen some very important advances in recent years, as evidenced by work from tech giants such as Google and Amazon, including voice recognition, search correlation, and personalisation, according to Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. This technology is also increasingly used in computer security applications, in distinguishing […]

James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor who studies mass killings, said the connection between domestic violence and such wider-scale violence appears more anecdotal than anything else.

Last week, Frederick Clay was freed after 38 years in prison for a Roslindale murder that the evidence suggests he did not commit. WGBH’s Morning Edition anchor Joe Mathieu spoke with WGBH News’ legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed about the Clay case and how it compares with other documented wrongful convictions.

Martin Blatt, Northeastern University’s director of public history, said there should be a discussion at the local level about adding context to existing Confederate statues and adding new statues to mark prominent slavery or lynching sites throughout the South.

Nazi and fascist American groups, whose rhetoric is echoed by those marching in Charlottesville, allowed nervous politicians to believe they were enough of a force that xenophobia-riddled policies prevailed, argues Northeastern professor Laurel Leff.

“People always complain that this is a slap on the wrist compared to Europe,” says Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University School of Law. “But there’s only so much the FTC can do.”

The disparity between the number of men and women working in the industry is one of the highest in finance, according to a study by Northeastern University in 2015. Only 439 hedge funds employ a female portfolio manager, compared with 9,081 that employ a male in the same position.