Where do I get this outlandish-sounding prediction? From Daniel Kim, a social epidemiologist and professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Kim has spent more than a decade studying the effects of income inequality on public health, and recently published a study comparing the impacts of a 2016 Trump campaign tax plan with one proposed during […]

“This is when families gather. This is when people are cooking in the kitchen. This is when young people are cooking with their parents or grandparents,” said Darin Detwiler, a professor and food safety expert at Northeastern University.

The shortage of available housing has led to a “seller’s market,” according to Barry Bluestone, a Northeastern University economist who co-authored the report card. It also highlights that as high-income earners move in, luxury rentals are hitting the market at a disproportionate level. Along Eastie’s waterfront, complexes like The Eddy have studios starting at $2,000 […]

Where do I get this outlandish-sounding prediction? From Daniel Kim, a social epidemiologist and professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Kim has spent more than a decade studying the effects of income inequality on public health, and recently published a study comparing the impacts of a 2016 Trump campaign tax plan with one proposed during […]

“The incumbency advantage is a hallmark of when there’s a problem of accountability,” says Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, a research associate at the Boston Area Research Initiative at Harvard University and Northeastern University. “If people are re-electing any kind of elected official at a higher rate just because they’re an incumbent, and not because they’re necessarily […]

When a seasoned human rights expert who has traveled the globe arrives in America, crisscrosses our country for two weeks, and finds a depth of poverty that surprises even him, we need to pay attention, says Northeastern law professor Martha Davis.

“The Saudi-Iranian rivalry has become the organizing principle for Mideast alliances, reminiscent of how the Cold War divided countries along U.S. and Soviet lines,” Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University, told AFP.

“Elliott’s not someone you fool around with,” said Nicole M. Boyson, an associate professor of finance at Northeastern University who studies activist investing. In many cases, she said, companies know they are vulnerable even before an activist initiates pressure, because of a lagging stock price, for example, and are wise to engage with the investor.

In the early years of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) the Department of Health and Human Services was kept busy issuing and implementing regulations to support the monumental health care law, notes Wendy Parmet, faculty director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. Now the tax bill has a provision […]

In his new book, Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun, PhD ’82, says universities must rethink how they prepare students for a world where advances in technology are continually changing the workplace landscape—and making many traditional jobs obsolete.

WGBH’s Legal Analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Mewed places these developments in context for Morning Edition as the FBI is reportedly launching their own investigation into Rosenberg. Medwed also comments on a recording of a Senate Judicial Committee hearing that went viral after one of President Trump’s nominees for a federal judgeship, Matthew Petersen, […]

“There’s just a giant gap there,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. Fewer graduates are emerging from the pipeline than are needed, he said. “I think that’s why the tech sector has been the place where these alternative models are being […]