The importance of corporate headquarters to Massachusetts was highlighted by the successful pursuit of General Electric Co. by the Baker and Walsh administrations, said economist Barry Bluestone, director of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. “I would expect whoever acquired Biogen would continue to have a large presence in Massachusetts because this […]

Northeastern University security expert Max Abrahms said, “The Islamic State likes to target places of transportation like trains and airports, and clearly in the nation’s capital this would be a particularly juicy target.” Federal agents yesterday arrested Nicholas Young, 36 — a resident of Fairfax, Va., and a sworn police officer of the Washington Metropolitan […]

But a new Stanford Graduate School of Business paper, written by Professor Pedro Gardete and Yakov Bart, a professor at Northeastern University, has uncovered an interesting insight about highly targeted and personalised ads – namely, they do not translate to higher profits for companies. It’s not surprising the research shows consumers find those ads frustrating […]

A new model based out of Northeastern University predicts that nearly 30,000 Zika virus infections have been imported into the United States as of June. The CDC reported only 1,657 travel associated cases. But don’t panic — at least, not yet. That’s the message from Northeastern University professor of computational sciences Alessandro Vespignani.

Then there are the unknowns that are harder to pin down: How many cases of Zika are going uncounted? It turns out, that number may be enormous. Researchers at Northeastern University say federal-health officials are likely vastly undercounting Zika in the United States. In a paper that’s still under review for journal publication, they describe […]

As many as 40,000 people in the US could already be carrying the Zika virus, having caught it while travelling abroad, a team analysing the epidemic has warned. This figure was calculated by extrapolating from the numbers of pregnant women who have been confirmed to be carrying the virus after visiting countries where it is […]

It became a near-instant — and unlikely — icon after it was switched on in December 1965, the enormous oil company logo glowing high above Kenmore Square. The Citgo sign, said to be the largest illuminated sign in New England at nearly 60 feet by 60 feet, has been called this city’s Big Ben or Eiffel Tower. Nationwide television […]

Whether it’s full boycotts or tweets containing the F word, Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society, said, “We’re in a time where people are really having a discussion about what athlete activism looks like.” Lebowitz points to LeBron James, of the National Basketball Association’s Cleveland Cavaliers, […]

The contest drew proposals from a range of high-profile developers who enlisted renowned architects and pitched modern office and condo towers packed with various civic amenities. But Millennium was a logical choice, said George Thrush, an architecture professor at Northeastern University.

College professors reading through their students’ essays often have to determine if they pass the sniff test: Does the paper seem authentic, or does it rely a bit too heavily on Wikipedia? But for Cecelia Musselman, an English professor at Northeastern University, writing a Wikipedia entry was the entire point. Over the past year, she’s […]

Teach compassion through mindfulness. Mindfulness can enhance attention span and reduce stress, but now researchers are finding that it can also foster empathy. In a study at Northeastern University, participants took an eight-week meditation course. When they were then faced with the option of giving up their chair to a person in visible physical discomfort, they were […]

“The link is the perception that they are going to alter your weight, shape, appearance,” said Rachel Rodgers, a counseling psychology researcher who studies body image and eating concerns and is an associate professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University. “The representations of ideal appearance in society are very restrictive and very unrealistic both for […]