“That’s an unanticipated link,” says Kim Lewis, from Northeastern University. “Many people, including me, have been arguing that tolerance allows the pathogen to survive and live to fight another day. And if you have a surviving population, sooner or later, resistance will develop. But what [Balaban and her team] have shown is that when the […]

This over-coverage creates the perception for the viewer that we are a “presidential nation,” as Robert Glibert of Northeastern University puts it. Gilbert maintains that that understanding “is affecting both popular perceptions and power relationships on the national level.”

But those of us who research and teach this most important and most profound of topics should not just condemn the deeply demoralizing statement but also begin to probe its meaning and ramifications. That means we need to do what makes us profoundly uncomfortable — establish clearly and publicly the connections between the history we […]

“I think it is a great thing that Google is putting more focus on users’ privacy,” said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. It is especially important in light of past cases in which apps available in the Play Store collected large volumes of sensitive data from users without their knowledge, including […]

The American higher education system has long been the envy of the world. To maintain that primacy in a globalized era, our universities are going to have find partners in the commercial world, while corporations will need to help shape the next generation of young workers.

Criminologist Dr. James Alan Fox, from Northeastern University, says that Trump is “dead wrong” and “misunderstanding the situation.” Fox notes that one reason that this one-year spike in the homicide rate in 2015 occurred was because the number had reached such a low in 2014. According to the FBI’s UCR, in 2014 there were 4.5 […]

Reuters: Kerry jabs at Trump, warns against isolationism in Boston speech U.S. Sec­re­tary of State John Kerry crit­i­cized pre­sump­tive Repub­lican pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Donald Trump on Friday, warning that iso­la­tionist poli­cies would take a toll on the country’s well-​​being. “You are the most diverse class in North­eastern his­tory. In other words, you are Donald Trump’s worst […]

Part of that has to do with the current generation learning lessons from the activists who came before them, said Sarah J. Jackson, a professor at Northeastern University who studies how activists use and are presented in media. Millennials, she said, were raised to believe that those who boycotted, marched and committed acts of civil […]

Northeastern University Professor Max Abrahms believes the Trump’s criticism is all for political gain and that it’s the latest chapter in the his crusade against “fake news”. “There was an attack in Baga, Nigeria, which killed many hundreds of people. an entire village was basically decimated and that got almost no media attention,” Abrahms said. […]

The researchers took advantage of a natural gradient in ocean acidity near carbon-dioxide vents in shallow waters off New Zealand. This gave them an insight into what an acidified world might mean for some marine ecosystems, says team member Brian Helmuth of Northeastern University Marine Science Center in Massachusetts. “We found that the total plant […]

More than two-thirds of voc-tech graduates go on to post-secondary education. For those who choose not to, a survey of business owners and others conducted by Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center found that voc-tech graduates are more job ready than other high school graduates. What’s more, a number of respondents said they were more job ready […]

“Any smart country would fight back, though, because they’re at the mercy of [pharmaceutical] monopolies,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst for Health GAP, a group that advocates for wider access to medicines. “It’s not that these countries are getting a free ride. What you […]