Fifteen million Americans drink water with elevated levels of PFOS and PFOA, according to a study released last week by Northeastern University and the Environmental Working Group. Most of them live near 47 military or industrial sites, the study said. Water systems have also filed suits against 3M, DuPont and other manufacturers. “Scientific literature is […]

Northeastern University appointed Raj Echambadi as the inaugural Dunton Family Dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, effective August 14. “When I thought about Boston, the strength of the D’Amore-McKim and the connection we at Northeastern have to the corporate community, that made [the position] interesting to me,” Echambadi said.

On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down a law that makes birthright citizenship more difficult to secure for a child born overseas out-of-wedlock if only the father, not the mother, is an American. The decision, in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, is both a victory for gender equity and a moment that reinforces Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s […]

U.S. lawmakers, who have historically been skeptical of accepting Puerto Rico as a state, are especially loathe to do so now with the territory grappling with a financial crisis that is stifling its economy and elevating rates of poverty and joblessness, said Amilcar Antonio Barreto, a professor at Northeastern University. Congress has historically favored keeping […]

And the 19.5 million viewers is probably just the “tip of the iceberg,” added Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University journalism professor. “There’s obviously a lot of people who can’t drop everything they’re doing and tune in. So you’re also getting a lot of replay, people watching it later, people watching the clips,” Schroeder said. “It […]

San Francisco officials want to gauge Uber’s and Lyft’s impact on the city. That’s why the transportation authority, which is distinct from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, produced the report. It was based on data collected from the companies’ apps by Northeastern University researchers over a six-week period late last year. Researchers at Northeastern […]

That good news comes from the County of San Francisco’s Transportation Authority, which Northeastern University researchers over a six-week period in 2016 to obtain data from the Uber and Lyft apps (because those companies declined to provide information). The County of San Francisco’s Transportation Authority used Northeastern University researchers over a six-week period in 2016 […]

Uber and Lyft account for 15 percent of all vehicle trips inside San Francisco, according to a new report, and the majority of the trips occur in neighborhoods that already enjoy the most public transit options. The San Francisco County Transportation Authority collected San Francisco traffic data on Uber and Lyft in conjunction with Northeastern […]

Northeastern University’s Charlotte campus aims to fill the city’s shortage of high-tech workers with a new master’s program targeted at students without a background in computer science. Charlotte’s technology sector has grown 28 percent in the last five years, and there are currently more than 92,000 technology and analytics jobs in the area, the school […]

he overwhelming margin of victory in the nonbinding vote is undercut by the knowledge on the ground that Puerto Ricans are far more divided on the notion of becoming a U.S. state than the election would otherwise indicate, experts on the subject told ABC News. Amilcar Antonio Barreto, an associate professor of Cultures, Societies and […]

The need and desire for the kind of training SCSEP offers, however, far outstrips the available opportunities. The Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University has estimated that nine million people age 55 to 74 were eligible for SCSEP. But remember, only about 65,000 low-income older Americans participate in it annually — that’s because […]

The likelihood that the US Congress will want to take on Puerto Rico as a fully-fledged state of the union at the time of such financial meltdown is seen by most observers as slight to none. On top of that comes the nature of Puerto Rico linguistically, culturally and racially in terms of its integration […]