In general, federal and state hate crime statutes punish people who commit crimes based on a victim’s race, ethnicity, religion or other specified categories. From there, the laws across the nation can be varied and murky. For some clarity, The Washington Post spoke with Jack Levin, co-director of Northeastern University’s Brudnick Center on Violence and […]

Major League Baseball and Northeastern are partnering to provide educational opportunities for big league players. Management and the players’ association agreed to institute a continuing education program as part of the labor contract that started this season. Under the partnership announced Tuesday, players will have access during and after their careers to courses that include […]

Major League Baseball announced on Tuesday a partnership with Northeastern University that will help provide baseball players access to higher education programs and degrees. The program follows an agreement in last year’s Collective Bargaining Agreement regarding a Continuing Education Program set up for players that provides players extra funds to pursue education.

Some big names in baseball could be coming to Boston but they would be joining the Huskies, not necessarily the Red Sox. Northeastern University and Major League Baseball have forged a partnership to provide pro baseball players in the majors and minors with access to higher education programs and degrees to advance their education in […]

Major League Baseball is today announcing a deal in which Northeastern University courses and programs will be available to players, using continuing education funds that were part of the most recent agreement between the league and its players’ unions. Many baseball players do not have college degrees and could benefit from the offerings. Northeastern will […]

A team at Northeastern University has invented a device, called the iChip, that allows bacteria that do not thrive in laboratory cultures to be grown in soil; its use led to the isolation of a promising compound, teixobactin, which is still being studied.

Professional baseball’s governing body will announce Tuesday that it plans to encourage players — primarily those in the minors — looking to slide into a new career or earn a degree to take their classes through Northeastern University. The deal, the first of its type between MLB and a university, is an attempt by professional […]

New research from Northeastern University links fitness and brain power.

A Pew Research Center survey in December found that 82 percent of adults read online customer ratings or reviews before purchasing a product for the first time. Yakov Bart, assistant professor of marketing at Northeastern University, said the platforms that provide these reviews had exploded in influence for businesses. “It’s better than advertising,” Dr. Bart […]

Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun and U.S. Representative James P. McGovern, having witnessed firsthand what the possibility that forging closer ties can mean for our economy and society, believe it is not in the interest of the United States, the American people, the Cuban people or the hemisphere to reverse the enormous progress made […]

The day after a juvenile court judge in Massachusetts convicted Michelle Carter of killing boyfriend Conrad Roy III with her words, some legal and cyber issues experts cautioned that the punishment may not fit the crime. “I draw a line between moral and legal implications of what she did,” says Daniel Medwed, professor of law […]

Research presented at a conference this week at Northeastern University detailed the presence of GenX in water in North Carolina and Ohio. In both cases, the chemical was found in water near plants that were owned by DuPont and since 2015 have been operated by DuPont’s spinoff company, Chemours. Both GenX and PFOA belong to […]