Northeastern University Charlotte is launching a computer science master’s program for students without technology backgrounds in the fall. The program, called ALIGN Master of Science in Computer Science program, is already offered at the university’s campuses in Seattle, Boston and Silicon Valley. Now, people in Charlotte without computer science backgrounds can enroll in the program.

“In most of these crimes, the killer gets much more publicity that any of the victims. When the killer is featured, the killer often becomes a celebrity,” Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University told HuffPost. That attention can be a dangerous incentive for would-be killers.

Data for the report was collected during a six-week period in late 2016, and was pulled directly from Uber and Lyft’s programs by researchers at Northeastern University. The information was then handed over to the SFCTA to clean it up and organize it into useful conclusions that will help inform city policy on ride-hail vehicles […]

This tepid growth is not enough to pull people back into the labor force who might be enticed by higher wages, such as stay-at-home moms or discouraged workers who have given up looking for jobs, said Northeastern University economist Alicia Sasser Modestino. The number of people working or actively looking for work, known as the […]

This fitness group began in Boston in November 2011, when two former Northeastern University rowers got together for a month of early-morning workouts, tracking their progress in a Google doc titled “November Project.” After recruiting their friends, who recruited their friends, who recruited their friends, the November Project workouts snowballed into a phenomenon with dozens […]

Fifteen million Americans drink water with elevated levels of PFOS and PFOA, according to a study released last week by Northeastern University and the Environmental Working Group. Most of them live near 47 military or industrial sites, the study said. Water systems have also filed suits against 3M, DuPont and other manufacturers. “Scientific literature is […]

Northeastern University appointed Raj Echambadi as the inaugural Dunton Family Dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, effective August 14. “When I thought about Boston, the strength of the D’Amore-McKim and the connection we at Northeastern have to the corporate community, that made [the position] interesting to me,” Echambadi said.

On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down a law that makes birthright citizenship more difficult to secure for a child born overseas out-of-wedlock if only the father, not the mother, is an American. The decision, in Sessions v. Morales-Santana, is both a victory for gender equity and a moment that reinforces Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s […]

U.S. lawmakers, who have historically been skeptical of accepting Puerto Rico as a state, are especially loathe to do so now with the territory grappling with a financial crisis that is stifling its economy and elevating rates of poverty and joblessness, said Amilcar Antonio Barreto, a professor at Northeastern University. Congress has historically favored keeping […]

And the 19.5 million viewers is probably just the “tip of the iceberg,” added Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University journalism professor. “There’s obviously a lot of people who can’t drop everything they’re doing and tune in. So you’re also getting a lot of replay, people watching it later, people watching the clips,” Schroeder said. “It […]

San Francisco officials want to gauge Uber’s and Lyft’s impact on the city. That’s why the transportation authority, which is distinct from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, produced the report. It was based on data collected from the companies’ apps by Northeastern University researchers over a six-week period late last year. Researchers at Northeastern […]

That good news comes from the County of San Francisco’s Transportation Authority, which Northeastern University researchers over a six-week period in 2016 to obtain data from the Uber and Lyft apps (because those companies declined to provide information). The County of San Francisco’s Transportation Authority used Northeastern University researchers over a six-week period in 2016 […]