“There are so many dimensions to the culture,” said Murray Forman, a media studies professor at Northeastern University. “It’s really rich for analysis in all kinds of contexts.” Some scholars still question whether hip-hop has a place in academia, but its acceptance is growing, said Forman, who was a Nasir Jones fellow last year. University […]

Northeastern University’s Department of Bioengineering are working on the advancement of 3D bioprinting which could revolutionise vascular disease treatment. A new faculty member at the university is pioneering a technology which will bring bioengineering solutions to challenges in vascular biology. Specifically, Associate Professor Guohao Dai is 3D bioprinting live tissue with vascular perfusion.

But the vast majority of hate crimes don’t get reported to law enforcement in the first place. According to the DOJ’s study, just 35 percent of hate crimes victims reported the crimes to police on average. Victims keep quiet for different reasons—distrust of the police, a belief that law enforcement won’t help them, fear of […]

Still, in many cases what these service people do isn’t a lot of work, says Coleen Pantalone, a professor of finance at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. “But like paying bills,” she adds, “you need to set up a schedule and follow it. If you decide you just don’t want […]

“I think it’s too early to draw conclusions,” says Alessandro Vespignani, who models the spread of Zika virus at Northeastern University in Boston. Colombia is still investigating more than 300 microcephaly cases to see if they’re linked to Zika. Several countries, such as Venezuela and Haiti, have not been vigilant about reporting cases. And countries […]

Gordana Rabrenovic, a sociologist, serves as a director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. She co-authored the book, Why We Hate, and said the violent protests and racially charged hate crimes unfolding since Trump’s election provide an all-too-easy, if unfruitful, answer to Americans’ frustrations. “Hate and intimidation is meant to […]

On Wednesday the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at long last will directly address the issue of how to settle the fate of roughly 24,000 “Dookhan defendants”—people whose criminal convictions are tainted by the actions of Annie Dookhan, the former state crime lab chemist who routinely tampered with evidence from 2003-2012.

Sarah J. Jackson, an assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, explained why this seemingly innocent symbol has come under fire. “While symbolic communication can often mean a lot to the person wearing the symbol, sometimes it’s missed by the larger society,” she said. For one thing, a safety pin is something that can […]

Riding a bike around Boston and environs can be a risky proposition: In the first four months of 2016, eight people were killed and 307 injured from bicycle crashes on Boston streets. In Cambridge, two bicyclists have been killed this year. At noon, a Northeastern University professor will urge a City Council committee to consider […]

For a president with a populist base — and a seemingly populist streak — the public anger may be hard to ignore. Moreover, Trump can be a wild card. He did sound off, albeit briefly, about prescription drug prices during the campaign. And he’s yet to issue any policy proposals. “He’s against price controls and […]

All of these data have enabled casinos to specifically target their most reliable spenders, primarily problem gamblers and outright addicts. Despite those customers’ big losses—or rather, because of their losses—the casinos lure them to return with perks that include complimentary drinks and meals, limo service, freebies from the casino gift shop, golf excursions for their […]

For planet Earth, these are worrying times. Not least because Myron Ebell, a notorious global warming sceptic, is now leading the effort to flesh out President-elect Donald Trump’s talk of dismantling US climate change regulation. Trump and Congressional Republicans campaigned on a pledge to undo all of Barack Obama’s major climate change-related actions, including rescinding […]