In the Press Archive

Study: Where your meat comes from matters

You know that guy, the one peppering the waiter with a million questions about the meat he’s about to eat? New research from Northeastern and Tufts says you should be that guy. The study, published Wednesday in PLOS ONE, found that people who’re told they’re eating humanely raised meat prefer it to meat they’re told came from a […]

They met on a dating site and went bowling. It was a setup, police say, and now he’s dead.

And on dating sites, would-be scammers have a trump card: People are irrational when they’re looking for love. “Romance is by definition quite irrational,” Jack Levin, co-director of Northeastern University’s Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, told The Post. “And the smartest person can be taken in during the early stages of the dating process. Except […]

Washington Examiner

Can Trump master ‘the art of debate?’

Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail, said history has proven conventional wisdom true: practice makes perfect when it comes to the art of debate. “I think to go into a general election debate without adequate preparation is really foolhardy and to look […]

Ozy

Is America due for a one-term president?

In the broad scope of American history, second-term presidents are not all that common: Almost two-thirds of presidents in the past 200 years have not been reelected. But in more recent history, the failed one-termer is a far rarer creature. Of those presidents seeking reelection since World War II, only Bush and Jimmy Carter have […]

Diverse group of Boston officers chosen to wear body cameras

A racially diverse group of 100 Boston police officers assigned to wear body cameras in a pilot program come from districts across the city, with some from the city’s high-crime neighborhoods, areas heavily populated by students, and districts trafficked by tourists. The officers — who are scheduled to begin training Wednesday — were selected by […]

When the cook calls in sick, there’s no need to panic

The company president, who was a graduate student before starting Jobletics, credits the Venture Accelerator at Northeastern University for helping him launch the business. He says the student-run program helped him “think about a more efficient way to control the variability when it comes to staff.” The Jobletics app has been live for about five […]

WGBH

25 years ago, the web was a place we’d visit. Now it’s just the way we live.

The web—or, as we used to call it, the World Wide Web—is 25 years old this month. On August 6, 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who had outlined his idea for the web two years earlier, published the first website. It was, as the Telegraph put it, “a basic text page with hyperlinked words that connected […]

WGBH

The politics of vaping – or, why a Brighton shop threw in the towel

“Electronic cigarettes are sort of frustrating because they would appear to have great potential as a tool for people to reduce and particularly to quit smoking,” says Mark Gottlieb, who directs the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s school of law in Boston. Gottlieb notes that the jury is still out on whether (or […]

How big, really, is the Zika outbreak in Florida?

But many scientists are concerned that the outbreak in Florida may be larger and more widespread than the number of cases suggests. “Zika is one of those diseases that is always like an iceberg — you just see the tip,” says Alessandro Vespignani, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, who has been tasked […]

Boston Herald

Need for physical therapists expected to keep increasing

“It’s really a wonderful career, because it’s flexible and you can over time change your career focus,” said Maura Daly Iversen, a professor and chairperson of the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Science at Northeastern University. Daly Iversen said her own career has come to focus heavily on the research side of the […]

The connection between pride and persistence

Most managers know that praising employees when they perform well is important, but many still withhold praise. They seem wedded to the outdated belief that pride can sap motivation among workers and even make them a bit lazy. This take on pride isn’t correct, not even in the least. In fact, pride is one of […]

Family of murdered New York imam demand suspect be tried for hate crime

An investigation of Morel’s phone and Facebook account, as well as interviews with friends, have not surfaced any indication that he harbored any hatred towards Muslims, Boyce said. Hate crime convictions have long been a contentious issue for the NYPD and prosecutors. Experts say, prosecutors are hesitant to charge defendants with hate crimes because it […]

Researchers decode the chemistry behind a deadly genetic disorder

How this entrepreneur built an e-commerce network for Latin America

This ‘super flu’ could cause widespread serious illness, experts say

Did Nick Reiner’s drug use mask longstanding mental health problems?