Other New England recipients and their projects include Yale University lecturer Edward Ball, who is writing about a Reconstruction-era klansman; Nicholas Basbanes, of North Grafton, on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Wesleyan University professor Andrew Curran on Denis Diderot; Smith College professor Michael Gorra on William Faulkner and the Civil War; Trinity College professor Christopher Hager on […]

Here is a full list of the newly named Public Scholars, their professional affiliations, book titles and grant amounts: • Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo, “Animals in the History of the United States,” $50,400. • Edward Ball, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., “Constant LeCorgne (1832-1886): Biography of a Klansman,” $50,400. • Nicholas Basbanes, independent scholar, North […]

The usual suspects still rule our annual Most Entrepreneurial Research Universities this year, with Stanford University on top once again. Only 3 newcomers make it on top 20: Brigham Young University, Northeastern and University of San Francisco, while San Diego State, UC Santa Barbara and Syracuse fell behind. FORBES ranked the country’s most entrepreneurial schools […]

“They want home-field advantage here, and frankly I have never seen this before,” said Roger I. Abrams, a professor of 
sports and labor law at Northeastern University. “This is very unusual, but they’re obviously trying to keep it away from David Doty.” Regardless of where the case is held, Brady’s argument will likely be the […]

It is instead the working conditions of trafficking victims, often invisible to the public and law enforcement, which qualifies their situation as trafficking. Many victims enter the U.S. legally on an H-2 visa, which enables employers to bring immigrants into the country on a temporary basis to fill jobs. As Amy Farrell, a professor of […]

Researchers at Northeastern University have studied human empathy for animals. In one experiment, people were given a false news story about a victim being beaten with a bat. The participants in the study were most upset when that “victim” was a 1-year-old child, followed by a puppy, then a dog and, finally, an adult human. […]

Donald Trump’s celebrity — and intrigue as to how the other Republican candidates will deal with his presence — could deliver a ratings boost for the first GOP debate, set for Fox News on Aug. 6. The audience will not be as big as the first season finale of Trump’s NBC series “The Apprentice,” when […]

An incoming Northeastern University student was among the people who rushed to the side of a Massachusetts man after he was attacked by a shark off the coast of North Carolina. Andrew Costello of Wareham was bitten by a shark on July 1 while swimming in waist-deep water off North Carolina’s Outer Banks on July 1. […]

In 1962 Fannie Lou Hamer and a group of Ruleville, Mississippi residents she had taken to register to vote were returning home when they were stopped because their bus was yellow, and state laws prohibited non-school buses from using that shade. The driver was taken to jail and the would-be voters left in the sweltering […]

The defeat of the Boston Olympics bid was this summer’s Market Basket story — a feel-good saga about ordinary people triumphing over the moneyed interests. Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi calls the opponents “heroes.” Of course, there were a lot of good people involved in Boston 2024, and they don’t deserve to be cast as […]

Stephen Flynn, co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, said that collecting biometric information will eventually allow airports to identify threats more easily, since it adds an extra level of screening. “We have a reasonably high level of confidence that the people who use those programs pose no […]

“Some of the traditional things about traveling on the train have been lost for the current generation [of Japanese],” says Allan Bird, professor of global business at Northeastern University, and a business consultant in Japan for much of the 1970s and 1980s. As air travel gets more economical, everything from the pleasures of countryside sightseeing, […]