Concurrent with Mr. Walsh’s vision is a growing interest by the area’s colleges and universities. Northeastern University hired Phoenix Property Co, for example, to construct its high-rise East Village for $96.5 million. Writing in the Boston Globe, Tim Logan notes: “East Village is the first dorm in Boston to be financed by private developers, and […]

Laurel Leff, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, thinks “trying to find out what Americans knew about the Holocaust at the time is a really important project.” She is the author of “Buried by The Times,” a roundly praised 2005 book that found that The New York Times altered and downplayed […]

Such inequality is indicative of populations at the extreme edges of the wealth spectrum: the very rich who can afford market-rate prices and the very poor who qualify for government housing, says Barry Bluestone, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University in Boston. “Everybody in between is being squeezed, and what […]

“The real rise of the phrase [political correctness] can be traced to the early 1990’s, when people started to use it to critique or just lament the policing of ideas that are out of step with the hegemony of liberalism in American society, post civil rights and post women’s liberation. In doing so they also […]

As more than 130 nations gather today in New York to begin formally signing the Paris climate change agreement, the quest to limit greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic global warming enters an altogether new era of challenge: collecting accurate data on an unprecedented scale, to make sure countries live up to their national commitments. […]

But while defendants are entitled to due process and the right to present a defense, “that right, in my view, does not encompass putting demands on how the prosecution tries its case or which witnesses it chooses to call,” said Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University.

The study looked at how the two kinds of CFOs performed in high-growth industries, such as  pharmaceuticals, electronics, and business services as well as low-growth industries, such as transportation, machinery and petroleum. The upshot was that companies with accounting CFOs tended to be more risk averse. CFOs with accounting backgrounds  in high-growth industries on average […]

“Science is messy. It’s not really linear,” adds Gary Young, director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research. “We’re always trying to refine what we know, and hypotheses change in ways we didn’t think about in prior studies.”

Leo Beletsky, a drug policy expert and law professor at Northeastern University, said he noticed opioid use reaching a crisis point in 2006. “A response has been very sluggish,” Beletsky said. “The administration has been really playing it safe in a lot of ways. …  It has been theoretically on the top of their agenda, […]

A City Hall proposal to force a 20 mph speed limit on Boston drivers is 
unlikely to slow them down, traffic engineers say. “It would be a mistake to think that lower speed limits will instantly slow people down,” said Peter Furth, a professor of civil engineering at Northeastern University. The City Council held a […]

“I think because of some of the professional incentives to get convictions and maintain convictions, and political incentives to be tough on crime, the justice role takes a back seat to the advocacy role,” says Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed, author of Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent. […]

It’s natural to think of innovation as happening in some instantaneous transformative way, but the transition to our own future will likelier involve a great mix of evolving technologies—a transportation landscape populated with smart cars, autonomous cars and, muses Fernando Suarez, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Business, “maybe flying cars for some longer […]