“In some way, shape or form, I suspect there will be federal control of the Puerto Rican economy,” said Amilcar Barreto, a political science professor at Northeastern University. “It’s going to be a traumatic experience for the Puerto Rican political system.”

A social network is just that – a network of people with knowledge on a variety of topics. But most social users engage with only a fraction of their connections. Chirag Kulkarni, a 20-year-old Northeastern University business student, has recognized the lack of communication among Twitter and LinkedIn followers and is launching a beta version Tuesday of […]

The number one story: “A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance,” published in January in Nature. “We didn’t quite anticipate the media frenzy around the paper,” says co-author Brian Conlon, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s certainly a strange experience to see a photograph of bacterial cultures you took in the lab […]

Justice Antonin Scalia has come under fire this week for controversial comments on affirmative action during a hearing on Wednesday. The Supreme Court Justice suggested African American students “do well” at “slower track schools”—as opposed to top-tier universities. “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the […]

I recently spoke to Julian Jung, who is the founder and CEO of Tablelist. Unlike most startups, Jung started his company without a co-founder and was able to raise money and grow his presence in multiple cities. In the following interview, Jung talks about how he came up with the idea for Tablelist, the challenges […]

Americans can add concerns about their physical safety to a list of worries that already includes job insecurity, record economic inequality, and trust in government reaching an all-time low. The San Bernardino shootings show that terror attacks on soft targets are not confined to Europe. The premeditated slaughter of innocent civilians by radical Islamic terrorists […]

Not putting money away for retirement. Many people are guilty of this. In fact, last March, the National Institute on Retirement Security released a study revealing that nearly 40 million working-age households have no retirement savings at all. But it can be even more difficult for freelancers to save for their golden years when hampered […]

Mike Beaudet joins WCVB Former WFXT investigative reporter and current Northeastern University journalism professor Mike Beaudet is returning to the field with WCVB as part of their investigative team. Beaudet joins Kathy Curran and Karen Anderson as part of the station’s multi-media investigative news team. Beaudet will incorporate his Northeastern students and teaching into his […]

#GivingTuesday, a creation of the 92nd Street Y in New York City, is intended to bring together individuals, communities and organizations to celebrate generosity and giving. Now in its fourth year, #GivingTuesday takes place on the first Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In the US, charities receive about one-third of their donations […]

Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from the United States is so reprehensible that it’s hard to know where to begin. So I’ll begin with this: Aside from being morally bankrupt and likely to provoke anti-Muslim violence, Trump’s rhetoric is based on a profound misreading of reality. Every weekend I receive an email newsletter from […]

We asked Thomas Webster, a professor at Northeastern University, to educate us on all things norovirus: what it is, how it’s spread, and what we can do to combat it. How common is it to get norovirus, and how worried should we be? I think it’s pretty common. There’s not many deaths [from it], fortunately. […]

Norovirus also is not easy to eradicate, according to experts. “Hopefully they’ll be effective, but you have to do a lot more than cleaning solutions,” Thomas Webster, a chemical engineering professor at Northeastern University, told TODAY. “You know you need things like ultra violet lights, you need things like high temperature.”