“The problem is scientific — we simply don’t know what makes them bloom,” Ferdi Hell­weger, a water quality expert and an asso­ciate pro­fessor of civil and envi­ron­mental engi­neering at North­eastern University, explained in a press release. “This highlights the need for more basic research into the ecology of cyanobacteria and a cautious approach when considering […]

“What you’re going to find in the NBA, in professional soccer, in the NFL is that men will listen to just about anyone who they think will make them a better player and perform better,” Dr. Justine Siegal of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society told CNN.

Their politics aside, it’s a Massachusetts miracle these two can find anything to bond over. Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, is serious and prone to lectures. It’s a good thing he has been teaching at Northeastern University and the University of California, Los Angeles, all these years. Weld, the patrician Yankee, is laid back […]

A number of studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of mobile advertising in different contexts. For example, Professor Yakov Bart and colleagues have shown that mobile display ad campaigns significantly increased consumers’ favorable attitudes and purchase intentions when they promoted products that were utilitarian (ie, need-based goods used for practical purposes) versus hedonic (ie, desirable goods […]

In the lab of Swastik Kar, lead author of one of the recent papers and a professor of physics at Northeastern University, I find myself staring at a piece of graphene that his group has meticulously deposited on a postage-stamp sized piece of copper foil. It looks like a postage-stamp sized piece of copper foil. […]

“A lot of people do think if someone is sexually assaulted, here’s what it should look like, there’s a certain reaction,” said Dr. Carlos Cuevas, an associate professor at Northeastern University, and a psychologist who specializes in helping victims of assault and abuse. “Expectations of what survivors should or shouldn’t look like or should or […]

The outcry is understandable; the facts prove Trump wrong. Study after study has debunked the notion that increased immigration, legal or illegal, produces a spike in crime. Indeed, the converse may be true. “Over the past 20 years, during a time that immigration into this country has skyrocketed . . . there has been no evidence that […]

Can a broken window really predict crime? That’s the idea behind the “Broken Windows” theory. The theory goes that areas with a lot of public disorder — trash, ruined cars, broken lights — are also those plagued by public violence. But according to the Boston Area Research Initiative, at least in Boston, it turns out […]

These ideas stem from the observation of a few rogue bacterial cells. Kim Lewis, director of the antimicrobial discovery center at Northeastern University, and his colleagues grew B. burgdorferi in the laboratory, treated them with various antibiotics and found that whereas most of the bacteria died within the first day, a small percentage—called persister cells—managed […]

I’ll add that it isn’t a surprise to anyone who works in marketing that colleges and universities look and sound more alike than different. And please note: I’m referring toreal differentiation — not a tagline or visual identity. What are other examples of institutions that are clearly differentiated? Here are some that occurred to me […]

But Bill Mitchell, a longtime editor at Poynter.org who now teaches journalism ethics at Northeastern University, wrote on Facebook that he found the piece exceptionally persuasive and solid. Two aspects impressed him: the named sources and the contribution made by the thousands of comments. He also praised the story’s “tough but evenhanded tone,” and noted […]

The number of people using bicycles to get around the city is on the rise. But, in the last five years, more than a dozen people were killed biking in Boston. Most recently, 38-year-old Anita Kurmann died in a collision with a truck in Boston’s Back Bay. The investigation into her death is ongoing. But a […]