Hollis had been talking with his close friend, Northeastern athletic director Peter Roby, over dinner while the two were in Indianapolis during NCAA Tournament selection week. They discussed how hard it was for Northeastern to get opponents from college basketball’s power conferences to play at Matthews, which opened in 1910.

On December 17, 2010, a 26-year-old vegetable vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire in front of a provincial government building in Tunisia. It was a bold, dramatic act of defiance, and it touched off cascading protests across the country and region. Since those early days of the Jasmine Revolution and the swift exiling of […]

For years, the fast-food chain has touted its use of what it calls food with integrity: fresh food, from farms and not factories, prepared using raw ingredients and cooked with traditional methods. So employees mash guacamole by hand. They shred already-cooked pork and beef by hand. They chop lettuce and tomatoes. What it really comes […]

Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor who lectures about criminal prosecutions, said third-party filings are typically made before appeals courts or before states’ and the nation’s highest court because the “stakes are higher” and the decisions have wider implications. But, he said, the union’s decision to intervene in the case now before a trial […]

Just like internal teaching evaluations, Viacom’s Rate My Professors gives students a platform to say whatever is on their minds, with anonymity and without fear of retribution. Many professors have wondered (based on some damningevidence) how strong a role gender bias plays in evaluations. Since Rate My Professors is the only place that puts large […]

Nielsen ratings are still used for TV. But Schiffman said TVision software, which is a combination of Xbox Connect and its own technology, reports more specific numbers to its clients so they can better target advertising and create content that keeps viewers more attentive. The data analytics company, founded by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]

f downsizing is important, these empty nesters are willing to give up the space they once had to be in the middle of a city. “People like the idea of living more densely,’’ Barry Bluestone, director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, told The Boston Globe […]

“These threats are so easy to issue and in today’s day and age, they are understandably being taken very seriously,” Northeastern University professor Max Abrahms said. “I’m worried that there will be copycat hoaxes now that it’s been shown to be effective.” The nation’s two biggest school systems, New York City and Los Angeles, received […]

My tongue is firmly planted in my cheek, yet this is no joke. On April 15, 2013, two Muslim brothers killed three spectators (and later, a police officer) near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon. On December 2, 2015, two Muslim terrorists murdered 14 fellow employees as they were enjoying a company party […]

The general rule of thumb is that if your loved one has a lot of debt, and there’s plenty of money to pay it off, the debt will be paid off, according to Tim Gagnon, a professor of accounting at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. “If a person dies with […]

If the aims of the historic Paris climate deal are to be met, a moonshot effort to develop technologies that can decarbonise the world economy will be needed – and the US has been positioning itself to lead this push. The accord involves 195 countries pledging to achieve voluntary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. In […]

Tower is one of the more statesmanlike figures in “Nut Country,” Edward H. Miller’s well-researched and briskly written account of Dallas’s transformation from Democratic stronghold to “perfect test kitchen” of a new politics of Republican protest that combined the libertarian cry for “freedom” with the states’ rights ­model of constitutional order. A go-getting paradise with […]