Teachers could also benefit from a bit more of the scrupulous attention paid on modern campuses to sexual equality. Earlier analysis by Ben Schmidt of Northeastern University showed that the language used to describe professors was heavily gender-dependent. Men were more likely than women to be described as “intelligent” or “funny”, but less likely to […]

“It was a great year,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews a Northeastern University economics professor. “It won’t be expanding at the same rapid pace.” Economic recoveries tend to wane after several years of strong growth, and that is likely to happen this year in Massachusetts, Clayton-Matthews said. But the collapse in oil prices, weak economic growth in […]

Jay Bardhan, an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, told BostInno that GE moving to Boston could be a great opportunity for his students, but said his main concern is with the city and state’s process for determining the value of GE’s incentive package. He added that he would like GE’s […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has studied this phenomenon in depth, told HuffPost that police and prosecutors have been known to lock on to a theory and “neglect countervailing evidence” if they decide a certain individual must be guilty. “Psychologists call this ‘confirmation bias,’” Medwed said. “After you develop a hypothesis, […]

Manufacturing workers in Massachusetts are more likely to have completed college and received graduate degrees than in any other state, said Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. Local factories that pumped out plastic pink flamingos for American lawns in the 1960s now produce sophisticated polymers used […]

Northeastern announced in October that it will offer a 25 percent discount to parents and siblings of current students who wish to pursue graduate studies at the Boston-based private college. The discount was created so family members of current students don’t have to defer their educational dreams in favor of their loved ones, the college says. […]

Long before Donald Trump perfected the public art of the obnoxious swagger, sports at all levels had been consumed by arrogance and pomposity. The National Football League vowed years ago “to bring the element of respect to its highest level back to our game.” This mission, assuming it was ever intended to alter behavior, has […]