Specialists say it may signal there has not have been enough awareness, outreach, and education for school officials, campus police, and students about identifying, taking seriously, and reporting hate crimes, and administrators may not have been diligent about tracking statistics. “It raises questions,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at […]

A new study released Thursday by the non-profit Environmental Working Group and Northeastern University in Boston shows harmful types of PFCs, known as PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) or PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate), can be found in drinking water systems in 27 U.S. states and in the tap water supplies of 15 million people.

David DeSteno, a psychology professor as Northeastern, explained that there are a couple of methods people can use to build loyalty and trust. One is, you meet someone, work with them, and learn about whether they’re going to have integrity and cooperate with you, DeSteno said. “Trust is a bet that a person is going […]

“Most involuntary manslaughter cases involve physical action, but her words and text messages provided the action,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University’s School of Law. “The question is whether her morally despicable behavior constitutes manslaughter under the law, and I don’t know that it does.”

Among the sites, tracked by Northeastern University researchers, are 21 military bases, 20 industrial facilities and seven civilian firefighting locations. Phil Brown, Northeastern University’s Social Science Environmental Health Institute director, said the hope of the tracking project is to make more Americans aware of the problem’s ubiquity. “Chemical policy has not done an adequate job […]

Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University professor researching the use of murder charges for drug overdoses, said prosecution like this can actually hurt. “These kinds of prosecutions, I believe, run counter to efforts to encourage people to seek help in all of this,” Beletsky said. “…We misappropriate public funding toward things that are counterproductive instead of […]

Max Abrahms, an expert on terrorism and radical Islam at Northeastern University, said that counterterrorism services are often unfairly criticized. Terrorism is very difficult to counter for two main reasons, Abrahms said: terrorists are indiscriminate in their targets, and they are prepared to die. However, he said the last two attacks in the U.K. “reflect […]

Though airline crews are trained to handle onboard emergencies, battery fires can be complicated, difficult, and dangerous to cope with. A Li-ion battery contains volatile chemicals separated by a permeable membrane, explains K.M. Abraham, a professor at Northeastern University and a pioneer in Li-ion battery design. If that membrane is compromised—whether because of a defect […]

It may seem that the June 8 general election in the United Kingdom puts Britain’s exit from the European Union on solid democratic ground. In fact, however, this is only the latest stage in a deeply problematic saga that has been anything but democratic.

In Massachusetts, a young woman is on trial for involuntary manslaughter, accused of using text messages to push her boyfriend to take his own life. NBC’s Morgan Radford reports for TODAY from Taunton, Massachusetts and speaks with Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University’s School of Law.

In the midst of the worst financial calamity since the Great Depression for the island, Puerto Rico’s government is moving ahead with yet another plebiscite on its state status question. While most observers will focus on how Puerto Ricans voted, Amilcar Barreto, an associate professor at the Department of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies at […]

Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor, said most sources of leaked information understand they will eventually face consequences. Reality Winner “does have an argument to make that what she did was in the public interest, but I don’t know if she can convince a jury of that,” Kennedy said.