Last month, Major League Baseball announced a partnership with Northeastern University in Boston to provide players with access to a host of higher-education opportunities. Northeastern is now MLB’s “preferred education provider,” a moniker that baseball executives hope will help steer players toward reliable learning opportunities.

Last year, the state’s executive office of public safety and security commissioned Northeastern University to conduct a firearms assessment study, but it has a different goal — to evaluate the 2014 gun legislation and its implementation.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has reinstated police officer David C. Williams, who has been fired twice for using excessive force. All Things Considered spoke with Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed to offer insight.

Meryl Alper, assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, said she believes the app could be useful, even for people who are not visually impaired. “What is obvious to one person can be invisible to another,” Alper told […]

WELSH: Long before Father Greg Boyle and Homeboy Industries, and all the others like them, there was a civic-minded Harvard physician named Richard Clarke Cabot. That’s Brandon Welsh, a criminologist at Northeastern University. WELSH: For Bostonians: he was a member of the Cabot family. The Cabots and the Lodges, very distinguished family …

Particularly devastating is a sequence in which we see reporters asking the candidates questions about polls and strategy alternating with voters at town hall events who want to know about substantive matters such as health care and opiod abuse. It’s an indictment of the gulf between the elite press and the public, and it ought […]

Last year, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said the disciplinary system was broken after 5 Investigates and Northeastern University School of Journalism found that since 2007, 72 percent of the Boston police discipline appealed to arbitrators has been overturned.

WGBH’s Morning Edition host Bob Seay spoke with Northeastern law professor and WGBH Legal Analyst Daniel Medwed to discuss the recent efforts by Biogen, a Cambridge-based leader in the life sciences field, to file a flurry of lawsuits against competitors to protect its patents related to its blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug, Tecfidera.

Natasha Frost, a mass incarceration expert in the Northeastern University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, said in an interview following the new policy “[t]here is no solid evidence that mandatory sentences — or even harsher sentences more generally — have had a substantial effect on crime rates.”

Northeastern University Engineering Professor Peter Furth calls the busy, four-lane straightaway a green light for fast or distracted drivers, and a minefield for pedestrians. “You step out into the first lane and hope that the car coming will see you and stop. And then you hope that the car coming in the second lane will […]

Northeastern University’s International Tutoring Center offers international students workshops on such topics as language, culture and reading, according to its website.

Curious to learn more about this generation, I’ve recently been reviewing the research on them, which is rapidly being accumulated. There are multiple studies out there, including, among numerous others, this one described in Harvard Business Review and this one from Northeastern University.