Last year, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said the disciplinary system was broken after 5 Investigates and Northeastern University School of Journalism found that since 2007, 72 percent of the Boston police discipline appealed to arbitrators has been overturned.

WGBH’s Morning Edition host Bob Seay spoke with Northeastern law professor and WGBH Legal Analyst Daniel Medwed to discuss the recent efforts by Biogen, a Cambridge-based leader in the life sciences field, to file a flurry of lawsuits against competitors to protect its patents related to its blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug, Tecfidera.

Natasha Frost, a mass incarceration expert in the Northeastern University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, said in an interview following the new policy “[t]here is no solid evidence that mandatory sentences — or even harsher sentences more generally — have had a substantial effect on crime rates.”

Northeastern University Engineering Professor Peter Furth calls the busy, four-lane straightaway a green light for fast or distracted drivers, and a minefield for pedestrians. “You step out into the first lane and hope that the car coming will see you and stop. And then you hope that the car coming in the second lane will […]

Northeastern University’s International Tutoring Center offers international students workshops on such topics as language, culture and reading, according to its website.

Curious to learn more about this generation, I’ve recently been reviewing the research on them, which is rapidly being accumulated. There are multiple studies out there, including, among numerous others, this one described in Harvard Business Review and this one from Northeastern University.

Some employers are starting to focus more energy on offering educational benefits to their employees, while colleges are struggling to respond to the growing interest by students in helping them land a job. A new center at Northeastern University sits at the intersection of these two areas—called the Center for the Future of Higher Education […]

“The emergence of synthetic drugs… changes the game in a lot of way,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University who specializes in drug policy. “Some of the most obvious ways is that because people don’t have a good handle on what it is that they’re taking it makes the likelihood that they’ll overdose […]

Northeastern University is today celebrating the summer accomplishments of College of Arts, Media and Design 2017 graduate Aneri Pattani. As this year’s winner of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff’s annual “Win a Trip” contest (the essay she submitted related her experience of interviewing residents in unincorporated areas of Texas near the Mexico border), she […]

“People have been using cannabis for a variety of therapeutic indications for centuries,” says Alexandros Makriyannis, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Drug Discovery, and a co-author of this new research, published in Nature. In the 1960s, scientists finally started to figure that out as well. And by the 1980s, Eli Lilly had developed a […]

There are certain two word phrases that seem destined for each other. Where their coupling achieves a sort of simple, evocative poetry. Summer’s breeze; good dog; sand castle; cold beer, and perhaps most effectively, in New England vernacular anyway: Yankees suck. That’s where Ray LeMoine and friends come in. Around 1999, the Northeastern University student […]

Last year, 5 Investigates and Northeastern University School of Journalism analyzed thousands of rodent complaints made to the city and discovered 2016 had the most complaints of any year on record.