Since the early 20th century, there have been buttons disparaging the wives of the men running for president. The slogans were designed to besmirch the candidates, but possibly also stir up anxiety that a strong woman might have too much influence in the White House. “Gender roles are associated with institutions: the family, the workplace, […]

Replicating human movement is an engineering challenge, and robots are slowly getting better at delicate movement all the time. A research team funded by Disney has constructed a remotely operated robot sensitive enough to thread a needle and move an egg without breaking it. The research team, which includes researchers from Northeastern University, The Catholic […]

CEO compensation took off in the 1990s because activist shareholders, board members and academics, all mating like alley cats, pushed to better align management’s interests with those of shareholders. So corporations began to award stock options to senior managers. Executive stock options have been a controversial topic for some time because of the fortunes executives […]

“Nobody has figured out how to build housing the middle class can afford,” said Barry Bluestone, a Northeastern University professor who studies the region’s housing market. “We’ve got to come up with some new answers.” This comes as Massachusetts is building more housing than it has in nearly a decade. There were more building permits […]

“We really think connecting theory to practice in the real world is incredibly important,” said Susan A. Ambrose, senior vice provost of undergraduate education and experiential learning at Northeastern. “This notion that our students are taking the knowledge they have and using it in the real world, where there are real constraints, real parameters and real […]

James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said the uptick represented essentially a blip in so short a time, and he said it was a reflection of how low the crime rates had dropped. “What’s basically happening is these cities are becoming victims of their own success,” said Professor Fox. The crime rate “can’t […]

As the United States and Cuba work to repair strained relations, Northeastern University will collaborate with a Cuban foundation and college to establish co-op programs in the country by 2017, school officials said. Students will have the chance to research marine science and the environment at the nongovernmental organization called Fundación Antonio Núñez Jiménez, or […]

Dr. Kristin Lee Costa, lead faculty, behavioral science at Northeastern University, says that no one wants their kids to deal with difficulty. “But we want them to have a healthy blend of realism. The idea that everyone gets a trophy is nice in theory but it’s not reality. Kids should know that and that it […]

John Wihbey, assistant professor of journalism and new media at Northeastern University, said that the document seems to indicate that Facebook is playing it straight in its news coverage. “It basically shows that they do have a strategy,” he said. “They do have some checks in there.”  

Associate Professor Randy Colvin, of Northeastern University’s Department of Psychology, disagrees. He’s not convinced by the survey, pointing to its setup and small sample size as two reasons to take its conclusions with a hefty dash of salt. “If you’re just sitting in a class next to a person, it’s really hard to say much […]

Kaya Simmons, the Northeastern University student who plays Jonathan, is relatively new to theater, and says he was initially intimidated by the talented women he was working with. “I have learned so much from watching them work,” he says. “I am majoring in sociology and economics with a minor in theater, but acting is the […]

So OceanOne managing to liberate a vase from a shipwreck is impressive, yes. But it’s unclear whether a waterproof humanoid would be useful beyond excavating human shipwrecks. “The big question to ask is: birds versus airplanes,” says roboticist Hanumant Singh of Northeastern University. “We don’t need flapping wings to fly. And so there are certain […]