Cuban diplomats have been traveling across the United States so frequently since President Donald Trump took office that the slogan of the Cuban Embassy in Washington could be “See America First.” So far this year, Miguel Fraga, a first secretary at the embassy, has visited Montana, Pennsylvania, and the Boston area, where he gave talks […]

Bruce Clark, a business professor at Northeastern University, has found that Amazon sells twice as much per employee as Target, and three times as much per square foot of space it owns. It’s also better at using data to probe our brains and gauge our preferences, and once we sign on to the $99-a-year Prime […]

After more than a decade of service to the university, Northeastern athletic director Peter Roby announced his intention to retire in June 2018. “Being associated with Northeastern University for the past 15 years has been one of the greatest honors of my professional career,” Roby said in a statement.

“This flu is horrendous. Can’t breathe, can’t sleep or eat. Muscles ache, fever 102. Should have gotten the shot. Time for a movie marathon.” That’s a hypothetical example of the kind of tweets Alessandro Vespignani and his colleagues at Northeastern University sift through, searching for signs of the latest outbreaks. His team recently presented a […]

On this week’s edition of Beat the Press, Emily is joined by Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University, Callie Crossley and Adam Reilly of WGBH News and former White House correspondent for CNN Dan Lothian.

The goal of Boston Uncornered is to engage with 900 former gang members, convicted felons, and high school dropouts, and to eventually enroll 250 in college over three years. The program pays participants $400 a week, to focus on school, tutoring, and work-based learning as an alternative to making money on the streets, officials say. […]

A “bold” program launched last night is offering gang members and ex-cons $20,000 a year to get out of the life and attend community college for free to help curb gunplay in the city. The “Boston Uncornered” initiative has $18 million of public-private funding targeted with support from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northeastern […]

Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University and the editor of Signs, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, called the call for retraction “an attack on scholarly peer review.” Ms. Tuvel’s critics had attacked her citations and conclusions, Ms. Walters said, without engaging her reasoning. “Could Tuvel have cited different people, or made different […]

New Orleans’ removal of four of its prominent sculptures marks a significant moment in the South’s history, a determination to challenge longstanding white supremacist symbols, said Martin Blatt, director of public history at Northeastern University and a former president of the National Council on Public History. “All this debate and the controversy points to a […]

However, only Congress has a clear path to Donald Trump’s removal and, therefore, the calculus for the Republican majorities in the House and Senate will be whether they stand to lose more by forcing Trump out, and enjoying a President Pence, or by sticking with him and his penchant for malfeasance. It is now clear […]

We should not weaken the school lunch standards further, says Jessica Hoffman, associate professor at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. Instead, we should truly make school lunches great by providing schools with the resources they need to offer the healthiest, best tasting foods possible. Investing in the health and development of […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently charged federal prosecutors with taking a more aggressive approach to charging defendants, including seeking mandatory minimum sentences. James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said he sees no significant omissions from Schumer’s statement. “The assertion is correct,” Fox said. “The reasons are partly strategic and partly being in the […]