The Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on Boston Public Radio for their regular Monday feature, All Revved Up. “The message was kind of sickening,” Price said. “But I appreciate that we live in a country that has freedom of speech. I think the challenge is, we’ve raised a number […]

Over at Northeastern, the accelerator space is extremely open and dynamic. The few times that I’ve been there, it’s looked slightly altered, as groups of students working on their ventures congregate in different areas. “All the furniture is on wheels, the space is flexible and can be converted into whatever we need: workspace, events, activities […]

“Some of the most important consumer protections proposed in these regulations may be difficult if not technically impossible to enforce,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law. “The institute contends that fantasy sports sites like DraftKings are in “clear violation” of Massachusetts law.  

Alan Schroeder, professor of journalism at Northeastern University, joined Herald Radio’s “NewsFeed” show yesterday to preview President Obama’s last State of the Union address. Here are excerpts of what he had to say:

“We’re all part of a team at Northeastern that’s organized to develop new ventures on behalf of the school,” Nick Ducoff, Level Founding Director and Northeastern’s Vice President of New Ventures, explained. According to Ducoff, he and his team looked at the innovation landscape and took a note from General Assembly’s book. Skill bootcamps are […]

The nationwide call for police body cameras has become louder after the highly-publicized deaths of African-American civilians at the hands of police over the past eighteen months. In some cases, we have video recordings of what occurred—recall the Walter Scott shooting in South Carolina—because bystanders captured portions of these encounters with their own devices. Documenting […]

“Traditionally, the majority of murders were committed by killers who knew their victims,” said Jack Levin, a Northeastern University criminologist. “Thanks to the Internet generally and Craigslist in particular, stranger homicides have been on the increase.”

Scientists from the University of North Florida and Northeastern University had developed a process that allows two metals together at room temperature. This item is called “MesoGlue” and is set to replace soldering as this allows formation of metal bond without heat.

Kendall Coyne set Northeastern’s record for career points with a hat trick as part of a 4-point day as the No. 8 Huskies (17-4-1, 12-2-0 Hockey East) completed a weekend sweep of the University of New Hampshire with a 5-2 victory on Sunday afternoon at the Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H. Coyne, a senior, passed […]

Losing an arm to an accident or a war can be economically devastating for a farmer or agricultural worker. And yet traditional prosthetics don’t always work well for planting, fertilizing, irrigating, and harvesting. Now there’s a new crop of modular prosthetic limbs with attachments for various farming tasks and tools. The Farm Arm, for example, […]

The suspect accused of shooting and wounding Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett in the name of Islam was charged yesterday with attempted murder — and an expert is warning the draw of jihadism could be strong for violent, mentally ill criminals. “It empowers, it makes them feel important, dangerous and a force to be reckoned […]

Michael Dukakis After losing the 1988 presidential race to George H.W. Bush, then-Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis announced that he would not seek a fourth term in office. Now Dukakis spends his time as a political science professor at Northeastern University, and a visiting public policy professor at UCLA. He also collects turkey carcasses to make […]