Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, a frequent writer on mass murder and mass shootings, and fellow researcher Emma Fridel analyzed a Stanford Geospatial Center database compiling shooters who killed four or more people since 1966. Of the 88 shooters who met that criteria, only 14.8 percent had been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. And […]

Like many Americans, I opened my Monday morning paper to find front page coverage of yet another mass shooting. Alongside the headline about the 25 parishioners and one unborn child killed by an armed intruder wearing black body armor and a Grim Reaper mask during a church service in Sutherland Springs, Tex., was a graphic depicting a timeline of the […]

Northeastern professor William Mayer sees only one good alternative for the Republican Party: nominate someone else as their presidential candidate in 2020.

This three-year pilot program is privately funded. Researchers from MIT and Northeastern University will monitor the results to see if it is a success.

Since his retirement, Ireland has taken a position on the faculty of Northeastern University as a professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Northeastern professor Max Abrahms discusses the confusion around labeling violent tragedies as “terrorism.”

Northeastern University and IBM announced a partnership in early October to allow learners to use IBM-issued badge credentials towards three professional master’s degree programs, with plans to expand the arrangement to 51 additional graduate degrees and 17 certificate programs. “We must eliminate the gap between learning and work,” said Philomena Mantella, senior vice president and […]

The ambitious project “was a bit far-fetched to a lot of people,” said Mohamed Khalifa al-Mubarak, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, and a Northeastern University graduate in economics and political science.

Today is election day, and there are a number of voting rights controversies being litigated right here in Massachusetts. These include challenges to the Commonwealth’s 20-day voter registration deadline law and Lowell’s “winner-take-all” system for local elections. WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed discussed these cases on WGBH’s Morning Edition.

In this changing landscape, colleges and universities that seek to meet corporate needs must move beyond monolithic programs and think in terms of competencies, unbundling curriculum, modularizing and “microlearning.” Many institutions are already pioneering efforts in this direction, from the certificate- and badge-oriented University of Learning Store (led by the Universities of Wisconsin, California, Washington […]

Northeastern law professor Andrea Matwyshyn argues why “hackback” legislation has lost sight of certain legal distinctions in the information and technology world.

The man who shot and killed dozens at a Texas church had been convicted of assaulting his wife and a child, and he may have been motivated by a “domestic situation,” say officials. The latest tragedy underscores a link between mass killings and domestic violence. John Yang talks with Deborah Epstein of the Georgetown Law […]