Friday’s ruling will be closely watched by legal experts. “The wrinkle here is whether she coerced him or pressured him into doing something that he wasn’t in a position to rationally and autonomously decide to do because he was in such a depressive state,” said Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern […]

But little has been known about visceral fat and brain health in children. For a soon-to-be-published study, researchers from Northeastern University in Boston and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tracked hundreds of 8-to-10-year-old children in a nine-month after-school exercise program in Urbana. Lauren Raine, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University who conducted the study […]

Almost our entire arsenal of antibiotics was discovered in soil, but scientists haven’t gone digging for drugs in decades. That’s because, “screening microbial extracts from soil is thought to be a tapped-out approach,” said Waksman Institute of Microbiology scientist Richard Ebright. Soil has been “over-mined” agreed Kim Lewis, director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at […]

Despite the uniqueness of the location and individuals injured, there is much about the ballfield shooting that is absolutely textbook. Most obvious is the lack of randomness. Mass shootings, with or without fatalities, are rarely indiscriminate in terms of victim selection. Although the assailant, identified as 66-year-old James Hodgkinson of Belleville, IL, wasn’t gunning for […]

James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University and author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder,” said it can be difficult to judge who is capable of violence amidst the noise of hyper-partisan online arguing. “There’s very, very few who would actually translate that into some aggressive act,” Fox said. “And there’s […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said the judge has a difficult task in determining whether Carter’s actions rise to the level of manslaughter. There is no Massachusetts law against encouraging someone to kill themselves. Medwed said the judge could consider Carter “morally blameworthy,” but “moral blame doesn’t always equal legal accountability. ”

But, while pundits consider the political fallout of Sessions’ testimony, there’s another legal matter that deserves some attention: the status of the complaints filed against Sessions with the Alabama state bar. Sessions has held his law license in the state of Alabama since 1973. Attorneys are largely self-regulated, beholden to ethical rules adopted in the […]

Northeastern University Charlotte is launching a computer science master’s program for students without technology backgrounds in the fall. The program, called ALIGN Master of Science in Computer Science program, is already offered at the university’s campuses in Seattle, Boston and Silicon Valley. Now, people in Charlotte without computer science backgrounds can enroll in the program.

“In most of these crimes, the killer gets much more publicity that any of the victims. When the killer is featured, the killer often becomes a celebrity,” Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University told HuffPost. That attention can be a dangerous incentive for would-be killers.

Data for the report was collected during a six-week period in late 2016, and was pulled directly from Uber and Lyft’s programs by researchers at Northeastern University. The information was then handed over to the SFCTA to clean it up and organize it into useful conclusions that will help inform city policy on ride-hail vehicles […]

This tepid growth is not enough to pull people back into the labor force who might be enticed by higher wages, such as stay-at-home moms or discouraged workers who have given up looking for jobs, said Northeastern University economist Alicia Sasser Modestino. The number of people working or actively looking for work, known as the […]

This fitness group began in Boston in November 2011, when two former Northeastern University rowers got together for a month of early-morning workouts, tracking their progress in a Google doc titled “November Project.” After recruiting their friends, who recruited their friends, who recruited their friends, the November Project workouts snowballed into a phenomenon with dozens […]