“Beyond understanding how the return is actually calculated, potential investors need to look at the annual fees the insurance or annuity company charges,” says Coleen Pantalone, finance professor at the Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “Investors also need to look at the surrender charges – what happens if you want out of the investment? […]

The high demand for seats has created what a 2016 report from Northeastern University called a “peculiar paradox” in Massachusetts vocational education. “Some still think that these schools are reserved for students who cannot succeed in the state’s comprehensive high schools,” said the report. But vocational schools are, in fact, now in such demand, it […]

If a state does have a hate crime law or federal law enforcement gets involved in a case, the important thing here is that someone must commit an actual crime to be charged with a hate crime. That crime can then be elevated to a hate crime if there’s enough evidence to suggest that the […]

Paul Fombelle, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University, said that “the right way to handle a situation like that is not to get in a situation like that.” “Once the guy has sat down, the airline has to honor that,” he said. “To pull him off is heartbreaking.”

Dan Kennedy, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University and panelist on WGBH’s Beat the Press, reflected on the Globe’s satirized Trump coverage. “It’s interesting because later in the year the Globe did another big opinion splash that got a lot of public play on gun violence, and I think they learned from this […]

“I don’t very often get to say that studies are impressively well done but I think this one is,” Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, told BuzzFeed News. “I found it very persuasive.” (As a lark who sees the dress as gold and white, she also happens to fit the theory.) […]

Nonetheless, work teaches young people to show up on time, and it warns them that they better develop new skills, lest they spend their careers grilling hot dogs in the hot sun or stacking yogurt in a chilly dairy department aisle. If a teen has not done any work before age 18, he finds it […]

However, others fear that the U.S. may have opened a can of worms that will only embolden the extremist’s opposition factions in the country. “It’s unclear how big the US military response will be. I hope it’s limited to sending a signal to Assad that he cannot attack the population with impunity,” added Max Abrahms, […]

With the opening this week of its gleaming new $225-million Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex, Northeastern University took what it considered a big but prudent gamble. The fast-growing institution sees educational and economic promise in drug discovery, robotics, and national security, and officials expect the futuristic six-story complex to help them compete in all those […]

At present just 14.1 per cent of computer science majors at US universities are women, while only 3.2 per cent are African-American and 6.8 per cent are Hispanic, Carla Brodley, dean of Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science, told Times Higher Education’s Young Universities Summit at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. “This […]

April 6, 2017 marks 100 years since the United States officially entered the First World War — igniting the journey for thousands of young men to the deadly trenches of Europe. This hour, we learn about the soldiers and hear how Connecticut was one of just a few states with records that explained how some […]

The article touches on just about every important current debate on gun violence, but it makes a significant breakthrough when the author talks about the apparent contradiction between the increase in gun ownership and the decrease in violent crime. What he points to are surveys that show a continued decline in household firearms ownership while, […]