Alan Schroeder, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail, said universities are selected as debate venues for other reasons as well. “I have no doubt that Fahrenkopf’s Nevada connection was a factor in UNLV being chosen as a debate site,” Schroeder said. “But I […]

Ravi Ramamurti on the first day of the BRICS summit For more on why this year’s BRICS Summit is different from ones in the past, CCTV America’s Susan Roberts spoke to Ravi Ramamurti. He’s a Professor of International Business and Strategy and the Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University.

“On average, the gun imperils everyone in the home more than it protects them,” said Matthew Miller, a professor at Northeastern University and an author of the 2015 study. “If you can get people to understand the risk that they are assuming and imposing on people in their home, you can actually save lives.”

Michael S. Dukakis, the Democrats’ 1988 presidential nominee, won the state by 5 percentage points. Mitt Romney — the Republicans’ presidential nominee 24 years later and a figure with no plausible personal or cultural affinity with voters here — won all 55 counties in the state in the last election, taking West Virginia’s five electoral […]

‘‘A lot of times with the debates there isn’t journalism happening at the same time,’’ said Alan Schroeder, author of ‘‘Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV.’’ “Even though the moderators are journalists, they’re stepping into a different role. That was basically an interview style of moderating, where you’re drawing out the candidate and pressing […]

Last year, our office teamed up with The New England Patriots to launch “Game Change,” a first-in-the-nation public/private partnership that brings anti-violence trainings to high schools across the state, using an interactive curriculum designed by Mentors in Violence Prevention at Northeastern University. We’re training students to lead conversations between young men and young women that […]

Tiny robots have been helping researchers study how cli­mate change affects bio­di­ver­sity. Devel­oped by North­eastern Uni­ver­sity sci­en­tist Brian Hel­muth, the “robo­mus­sels” have the shape, size, and color of actual mus­sels, with minia­ture built-in sen­sors that track tem­per­a­tures inside the mussel beds.

“I find the DOJ’s indecision rather baffling,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written at length about prosecutorial misconduct, told HuffPost in an email. “Both the breadth of the scandal (the number of informants and government officials potentially involved) and the depth (touching upon capital and other serious cases) cry out […]

The drone is the “natural evolution of terror attacks,” said Northeastern University terrorism expert Max Abrahms. “There’s a growing threat that the terrorists are going to be lethal from the sky and this is a natural evolution of where we are headed technologically in the world,” Abrahms said. “I can imagine, especially in cases where […]

On top of attacks and fatalities rising, terrorist arrests are also up, noted Max Abrahms, a political science assistant professor at Northeastern University. A December 2015 report from the Program on Extremism at George Washington University said 56 individuals were arrested in 2015 in the United States for ISIS-related activities, “the largest number of terrorism […]

Liquidity problems. Paul Bolster, professor of finance at Northeastern University in Boston, says he is concerned about the fund’s lack of liquidity because it is thinly traded making its trading volume too low be a reasonable investment vehicle. “Over the past year, it averaged less than 1,000 shares of daily volume and did not trade […]

For a deeper analysis of China-Cambodia economic relations, CCTV America’s Rachelle Akuffo interviewed Ravi Ramamurti, director at the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University.