The report also calls for businesses to put their money where their mouths are by helping colleges develop multidisciplinary programs in data science. It argues that the private sector should focus first on supporting applied and experience-building academic tracks, like Northeastern University’s master of data science, which offers students up to a year of pregraduation […]

According to research at Northeastern University, there is one specific cluster of nonverbal cues that proved statistically to be a highly accurate indicator of deception. The four nonverbal signals associated with lying are hand touching, face touching, crossing arms, and leaning away.

Bush remained acting president until after 7 p.m. that evening while Reagan remained under the effects of the anesthesia and postoperative painkillers. But was that long enough, and did Reagan rush his recovery in a way that could have compromised his presidency in the ensuing days? Robert E. Gilbert, a political scientist at Northeastern University […]

Online graduate education, once a caveat emptor Wild West of questionable quality, has come a long way. “The online degree market is pretty well established, especially in terms of acceptance in the employer community,” says Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University and […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written at length about prosecutorial misconduct, said he was “deeply troubled” by Becerra’s decision to pursue the death penalty. “The fact that a different prosecution team ― state, and not the county ― is pursuing it does not remove the taint,” Medwed said. “Before pursuing […]

The emerging Trump strategy, including failed plans to repeal Obamacare protections that enabled millions to get substance abuse treatment, “doesn’t bode well for the public health approach, such as it is,” said Leo Beletsky, a law professor at Northeastern University who specializes in health and drug policy. He points to Republican rhetoric about criminalizing the […]

The problem with this is that Gorsuch is not the issue. Though severely conservative, as Mitt Romney might say, he is well-qualified, according to the American Bar Association. By appointing Gorsuch, Trump chose a justice whom any Republican president might have picked. It’s not going too far to say that the Gorsuch appointment was the […]

After the rally was done and after the speeches and chants, many of the tens of thousands of people who had gathered in January for the Boston Women’s March protesting Donald Trump’s presidency dropped the signs they carried along Boston Common. The signs were destined for the trash, but a group from Northeastern University is […]

t’s well established that women are judged more harshly on their appearance than men are, as Kelsey McKinney wrote for Vox. Research has proven this phenomenon generally, as McKinney points out, and has also explored the ways it impacts black women in particular. O’Reilly’s comments are part of a centuries-long history of devaluing black women […]

You know the rest of the story: Clinton was forced to submit to hours of depositions, and the case led Jones’ lawyers to a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky. In addition to humbling one president, the case set a powerful precedent for presidents who misbehave in their private lives — one that could get […]

Lastly, Northeastern University announced that it hired John Manferdelli, a Google engineering director, to lead its new institute for cybersecurity and privacy research and education.

Ever been hungry, tired, and rushing to class? Of course you have, and Johnny Fayad and Ali Kothari know it. As freshmen at the Northeastern University D’Amore-McKim School of Business, making it to their 8 a.m. Financial Accounting class meant sacrificing breakfast — including coffee. It might not have been very fun at the time, but […]