Once again we find ourselves mourning the loss of innocents and wondering how our societies can find normalcy in a world of suicide attacks, car rammings and mass shootings. Many pundits have already called for the United Kingdom and other societies to increase their levels of security, add more police officers and install security personnel, […]

Before Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa started Warby Parker with their fellow cofounders Jeff Raider and Andy Hunt, they felt the way a lot of new grads do: extremely well-educated in a narrow range of really specific things. “Three of us had management consulting and finance backgrounds, and the other came from a nonprofit,” Gilboa […]

“Boston is without question the most lawless city when it comes to pedestrians,” said Peter Furth, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University. “It’s an annoying thing, but that is not the cause of our fatalities.” He said that Walsh’s comments that pedestrians should remove their headphones and quit darting in and […]

The public installation “Harmonic Conduits” connects two of these urban landscapes through their sounds. Ruggles Station and Haley House Bakery Café in Lower Roxbury each have the sounds of their environments recorded, and then transmitted to each other through “tuning tubes” and played aloud live. Additionally, sounds from Northeastern University’s campus will play at the […]

As someone who has not been personally affected by a terrorist attack, I would not presume to give advice to the people of Manchester on this terrible day after. But as a resident of the Boston area — and one among the thousands who rallied to the side of our city in the wake of […]

More broadly, Trump has done nothing to address the structural issues behind drug addiction — the poverty, joblessness, deteriorating communities, and other common contributors to despair that lead to drug addiction. “If you look at overall public health trends, there are a lot of things like alcohol use and suicide that have increased in concert […]

Daniel Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, said that Gordon could not be faulted for aiming to protect a client’s reputation, as long as he did not break laws or cross ethical boundaries. But he said the very notion that Gordon worked for the school as an outside counsel erases any possibility […]

This research might be good news for the public, but some Lyme patients have felt let down by the medical community, saying the disease is often misdiagnosed. There is also some frustration that a vaccine has been available for dogs for years. Northeastern University professor Brandon Dionne, who studies the pharmaceutical industry, said a human […]

“In this latest survey, far more businesses told us that, instead, they’ll be seeking buyers outside the family within the next several years — nearly one-third of respondents, compared with 19 percent two years ago,” the survey found. But Ted Clark, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Family Business, said owners without another generation to […]

When President Donald Trump first issued a ban on refugees and travel from seven majority-Muslim countries, immigration attorneys flooded airports across the country looking to volunteer their services to help immigrants mitigate the chaos and confusion. Now, several months and two struck-down travel bans later, the state of chaos has not dissipated for immigration lawyers. […]

Most biologists would likely have nodded at this conclusion and read on, but to bioengineer Nikolai Slavov of Northeastern University in Boston, the paper’s claim represented a statistical “elephant in the room,” he said. “It was clear to me that this was not consistent with their data from the moment I saw it, and that’s […]

But Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University School of Law, said little evidence exists to support the idea that arresting drug dealers will lead to fewer overdoses. “Taking someone out of the drug supply chain has not been shown to affect the drug supply,” said Beletsky, who has consulted […]