More colleges should embrace the idea of cooperative education. At universities such as Northeastern and Drexel, students alternate between the classroom and the job. Co-ops are part of the undergraduate experience at these institutions, and paid work makes up anywhere from one-third to almost half of the time a student spends in school. Co-op education […]

Last February, New York Republican Rep. Peter King said Donald Trump was “not fit to be president, morally or intellectually.” In early May, he endorsed Trump. And King is not alone. Where many Republican Party members were once focused on Trump’s negatives, they’re now courting him. Like King, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who previously labeled […]

“Even though it’s decades old, the work of Erving Goffman is still super relevant here,” Northeastern University professor Meryl Alper tells TI. Goffman’s work explores human behavior as a theatrical performance, with a front and back stage. A person acts differently depending on the audience, which Goffman refers to as “impression management.” And on Instagram, teens […]

Social scientists who examined the effect of such decapitations on militant groups have found little empirical evidence that the killings advance U.S. goals. One of these researchers is Max Abrahms, a scholar of terrorism at Northeastern University. “When a leader of a militant group has been taken out, the group tends to become even more […]

The Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) Center at Northeastern University is a Department of Homeland Security “Center of Excellence” (a swanky name for funded R&D centers) that is looking into the future of security checkpoints, and it’s got some intriguing ideas. Those include making checkpoints painless—maybe even invisible—and new video recognition techniques to […]

The OPEC meeting will also be the first with Khalid al-Falih as Saudi Arabia’s oil minister. Al-Falih, chairman of Saudi Arabia Oil Company, replaced longtime Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi earlier this month. “The appointment of a new energy minister is significant because it signals that Saudi Arabia, under Prince [Mohammed bin] Salman, intends to […]

To take a deeper look at China and India’s investing ties and both countries economic future, CCTV America’s Rachelle Akuffo spoke with Ravi Ramamurti, distinguished professor and director for the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University.  

Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University, worries that HB 953 may actually scale back current hate crimes statutes if police officers are included. “We might very well dilute the hate crime law so that it is weakened beyond repair,” he said. “Originally the idea of hate crime statutes was to protect vulnerable groups of […]

The data were collected by state troopers on traffic details between July 2010 and December 2015 and analyzed by the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University in Boston. The collection began amid nationwide concern about racial profiling by police.

Associate Director Jack McDevitt, who presented the data, said unlike Vermont State Police, most police agencies in the country don’t collect traffic stop data to help them determine the extent of racial bias. “There’s no glaring areas,” McDevitt said of the information, which he presented to a group that included state police commanders and members […]

With last week’s approval by the North Carolina Board of Nursing, Northeastern University’s Charlotte campus is now taking applications for its new accelerated bachelor of science in nursing program. The Boston-based college, which has had an uptown campus for five years, is offering a 16-month nursing program designed for professionals with bachelor’s degrees in non-nursing […]

One of the last great newspaper rivalries got a boost on Monday with the debut of Margaret Sullivan’s media column in the Washington Post. Sullivan’s first piece was more a preview of coming attractions than an attempt to dig deep. But with Jim Rutenberg having replaced the late, great David Carr at the New York […]