“The threat of court intervention remains a serious obstacle to the Abe administration’s goal of full nuclear restarts,” Daniel Aldrich, director of the Security and Resilience Studies program at Northeastern University in Boston, said by e-mail before the ruling. The ruling allows the government to move forward with part of its overall plan, he said.

Dietmar Offenhuber, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in the departments of Art + Design and Public Policy, compared the yard signs to street art, a compassionate message to a broad audience. “It’s finding a different way of leading political discourse that’s not dictated by rhetoric of mass media,” Offenhuber said. “It’s finding a way […]

“The threat of court intervention remains a serious obstacle to the Abe administration’s goal of full nuclear restarts,” Daniel Aldrich, director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, Northeastern University in Boston, said by e-mail before the ruling. The removal of the ruling allows the government to move forward with part of its overall plan, […]

Massachusetts’ highest court has seen a few high-profile cases recently. WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed breaks down the recently concluded trial of New England Compounding Center chief Barry Cadden and a major decision by our Supreme Judicial Court about property tax exemptions for places of worship.

In terms of short-term impacts the CEOs noted many companies that made acquisitions had already become much more diverse in their service offerings. They also reported that more intense price competition had emerged in many markets. Some respondents expressed concerns that Amazon might choose to participate in the consolidation movement by acquiring 3PLs and by […]

Another expert said most mass shootings — defined as four or more people shot in one instance — are like the violence that broke out at Cameo. “These are not just folks going berserk or terrorists,” said James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University. “In many cases, these are deliberate and planned, but […]

Roseann Sdoia and three people who now make up her “inner circle” didn’t even know each other before the Boston Marathon bombing. But the bond they share now is as close as any they have ever known. Sdoia was gravely injured in the second explosion. Shores Salter, a Northeastern University student, was running away from […]

Our own research seeks to identify these problems through study and scholarship, without needing to wait for whistle-blowers to spill the beans. We leverage real users and fake accounts created by us to compile data from online services. Using these data, we try to tease out how black-box algorithms work: What data do they use? […]

Bay State employers added more than 10,000 jobs last month and more residents rejoined the labor force, the latest signs that Massachusetts’ labor market is continuing to grow — though some analysts worry the good times may soon be coming to an end. “It’s been steady, relatively strong growth,” Northeastern University economics professor Alan Clayton-Matthews […]

Many people in the United States are betting on economic opportunity in Cuba as well. Last month, a delegation that included U.S. Reps. Jim McGovern and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts visited Cuba and met with representatives from Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council to discuss opportunities in the agriculture and health sectors. Former U.S. […]

The case, now before a Suffolk Superior Court Judge, is just one example of several in recent years where Evans has disagreed with an arbitrator’s decision to reinstate a fired officer. According to data from Northeastern University journalism students, 72 percent of discipline cases within the Boston Police Department are overturned, with officers reinstated despite […]

Peter Furth, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, dissects Boston’s most dangerous intersections and shows why they are a headache for drivers.