“We just get caught up in our own gospel around collaboration,” says Ethan Bernstein, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, and a coauthor of the paper, with Dr. Shore and David Lazer of Northeastern University. The researchers broke down problem-solving into two parts — gathering facts about a situation and devising solutions. Roughly 400 undergraduate […]

Mental illness and depression are common characteristics of mass killers, but there are other factors that lead to homicidal behavior, according to Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston. “There are millions of Americans who are depressed, and they never kill anyone,” said Levin, a national expert on mass […]

“The question is: You fire into a crowd, it’s foreseeable that people would then run. Are you then accountable if it turns out one of the people who ran has asthma?” said Daniel S. Medwed, a Northeastern University criminal law professor. “Let’s take it another step. . . . It’s foreseeable that someone who ran for their […]

On Monday, May 18, Northeastern University announced it will be partnering with the City of Boston and providing $26 million in funding for the revitalization of a nearby public park. William E. Carter Playground, located on the chunk of Columbus Ave. that slices through NU’s campus, will receive a massive facelift that includes a cutting-edge […]

Northeastern University will spend $26 million to transform a rundown city-owned park into a state-of-the-art intramural athletics complex that the school will share with the public and youth sports leagues. The William E. Carter Playground, near the Southwest Corridor along Columbus Avenue, is currently a popular spot where Northeastern students and nearby residents toss frisbees, […]

The university as archivist is a notion as old as universities themselves, yet this role is rarely what we talk about when we talk about college today. It’s far away from concerns over tuition, admissions, student loans — and in many ways runs in direct opposition to those other issues. So how does a modern […]