He strolled through campus in Ray-Bans, snapping selfies with students, high-fiving those with familiar faces. It was the first day of school at Northeastern University, and Joseph Aoun was doing his thing. The university president, a whirlwind of energy, wasn’t just showing off on the first day, either. He does this all the time. Some […]

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. There was a moment this week when the legions of Shoeless Joe Jackson fans who have long worked for his reinstatement by Major League Baseball had a flutter […]

Investors are trying to figure out whether the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates for the first time in nine years at its Sept. 16-17 policy meetings. The guessing game is complicated by recent stock market volatility amid concerns about China’s economy, but it is unlikely the Fed would delay its rate hike solely because […]

“On the top end you have businesses that allow you to take a lot of expense deductions that the lower end doesn’t have,” said Timothy Gagnon, faculty director for the MST and MSA online programs at Northeastern University. “If I’m an average guy and I buy the Boston Globe, I just pay for it, but […]

“It’s a whole different way of thinking about how violent crime comes from a community,” said co-author Dan O’Brien, a professor at Northeastern University. There’s debate among academics on whether the broken windows theory is valid, said Anthony Braga, a senior research fellow in the criminal justice program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Some studies, […]

Washington policymakers also face a learning curve. Those seeking to protect consumers’ security and privacy when it comes to the Internet of Things must also be careful not to damage innovation by instating overly broad regulations, said Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University. “In this case, we need a regulatory scalpel, not a […]

Former Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis said Friday morning that controversy over current front-runner Hillary Clinton’s exclusive use of private email while secretary of State is “nonsense.” “The notion that there was something wrong with what she was doing is just foolishness. But people have been banging away at it and it’s done some damage,” […]

In addition to all the playable games, there will be a video game music performance by the Videri String Quartet and a keynote speech by Susan Gold, founder and president of the Global Game Jam as well as professor of practice at Northeastern University.

The cyber domain may offer a new direction in how nations threaten and act against one another.  This threat’s immediacy became clear when China hacked the U.S. Office of Personal Management’s systems last June, leaking more than 4 million sensitive records. The U.S. government’s only viable response was economic sanctions against companies and individuals. It refrained from escalating the conflict […]

Yet the researchers did not use well-established techniques to measure the participants’ sensitivity to and bias for reporting certain colors, says Rhea Eskew, a psychologist at Northeastern University who studies color detection and was not involved in the study. That means the study might show more about language associations than it does about color perception, […]

A change of venue can increase the likelihood that a jury will be impartial, according to Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. Medwed also noted that if the officers were to be convicted outside of Baltimore, they would not be able to argue on appeal that they had not received a fair trial. […]

While some legal experts say that arguments for a change in trial location don’t make sense due to the case’s already nationwide public profile, some say the institution of a city-wide curfew during the riots brought the events particularly close to home for Baltimoreans. “It’s an interesting test case because every potential juror was directly affected […]