“Certainly, the preliminary signal we’ve gotten from the administration … is an attitude of taking a much more law enforcement-based approach to drugs,” Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s programme on Health Policy and Law, told Al Jazeera. “We need a more holistic science-based approach. If the response is a look-tough-and-get-tough-approach, I’m worried that that […]

Gun owners who carry guns outside their homes, stash them in their cars – or simply own lots of them – are more likely to have their guns stolen, according to a study published Monday in the journal Injury Epidemiology. The study, by leading public health researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities, is the first […]

In fact, while Massachusetts is known for its ambitious environmental policies, Daniel Faber, an environmental justice researcher at Northeastern University and director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, has found that the Commonwealth has some of the most dramatic inequities of any state in the U.S. Communities of color bear twenty times the environmental […]

People value their health. It allows them to pursue their aims and enjoy their lives, and it contributes to their well-being. But health is not only good for particular healthy individuals. It is also good for their families, communities, nations, and in a world in which people flows are global, health is good for the […]

MassDOT will be replacing the half-century-old Commonwealth Avenue Bridge at Boston University in July. The agency deemed the bridge “structurally deficient,” and will be accelerating its repair project on it this summer, beginning July 26. But instead of taking months to repair the bridge, MassDOT plans to complete phase one of the project in just […]

Although a year may have 525,600 minutes, on Tuesday night, f­­or about 60 minutes, you can hear all about how to measure a year in the life on the streets of Boston. To celebrate the show’s 20th-anniversary tour, and the eighth Boston engagement of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, a dozen singers […]

I am known for being hard to read, to the point that friends complain that they can never tell what I’m thinking by looking at my face. But, says neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, it’s possible that they might remain confused even if my face were more expressive. Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University, is the […]

“Beyond understanding how the return is actually calculated, potential investors need to look at the annual fees the insurance or annuity company charges,” says Coleen Pantalone, finance professor at the Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “Investors also need to look at the surrender charges – what happens if you want out of the investment? […]

The high demand for seats has created what a 2016 report from Northeastern University called a “peculiar paradox” in Massachusetts vocational education. “Some still think that these schools are reserved for students who cannot succeed in the state’s comprehensive high schools,” said the report. But vocational schools are, in fact, now in such demand, it […]

If a state does have a hate crime law or federal law enforcement gets involved in a case, the important thing here is that someone must commit an actual crime to be charged with a hate crime. That crime can then be elevated to a hate crime if there’s enough evidence to suggest that the […]

Paul Fombelle, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University, said that “the right way to handle a situation like that is not to get in a situation like that.” “Once the guy has sat down, the airline has to honor that,” he said. “To pull him off is heartbreaking.”

Dan Kennedy, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University and panelist on WGBH’s Beat the Press, reflected on the Globe’s satirized Trump coverage. “It’s interesting because later in the year the Globe did another big opinion splash that got a lot of public play on gun violence, and I think they learned from this […]