Pixar’s Inside Out is the latest in a long tradition of animated entertainment that teaches us about science. Chemistry, as I learned from Saturday morning cartoons, is about mixing colorful, bubbling liquids in test tubes until they explode. “Roadrunner and Coyote” cartoons—those fine nature documentaries—taught me physics: if you run off a cliff, you’ll hang […]

“Involved fathering has positive work-related outcomes that can benefit organizations,” says Jamie Ladge, an associate professor of management and organizational development at Boston’s Northeastern University and an author of a study on fathers published in the Academy of Management Perspectives in February. But Ladge says her research also found that many men feel stigmatized at […]

On July 14, more than five decades after her debut novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” first appeared, 89-year-old Harper Lee’s long-awaited follow-up “Go Set a Watchman” will finally be published. On that same date at 8 p.m., PBS World Channel’s “America Reframed” will air Sandra Jaffe’s “Our Mockingbird,” a documentary that shows how Lee’s beloved […]

Evans is also convening a task force, with invites going to the NAACP, Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts and other community leaders to review police policies. At the request of Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the department has also brought on Northeastern University professor Jack McDevitt to review the report and make recommendations.

Benjamin Schmidt’s analysis of reviews from the website Rate My Professor confirms that hypothesis. Schmidt, a professor at Northeastern University, created a database of approximately 14 million reviews from the website. Words most often associated with men include smart, idiot, interesting, and boring. Those used to describe women are sweet, shrill, warm, and cold. Schmidt […]

Concern about coordination among the big air carriers was one reason the Justice Department sued in 2013 to stop U.S. Airways from merging with American Airlines. That lawsuit was eventually dropped and the companies completed the deal. “Here it is – the very coordination that they had speculated about. It was something of a problem […]

Likewise, at the institutional level, Northeastern University, known for its deep relationships with employers through experiential learning, is expanding its engagement with the wider community through its thought leadership series called Innovation Imperative.

“It isn’t unreasonable to speculate that at least some of the black churches are acts of arson, especially coming in the aftermath of the horrific massacre of nine people in a black church,”said Jack Levin, a professor emeritus at Northeastern University who has studied hate crimes for 30 years and serves as co-director of the […]

The U.S. Supreme Court just put its stamp of approval on the Obama administration’s health-care reform, and a Boston law professor thinks he knows what will happen next. In his 2014 study, Northeastern University law professor Daniel Austin dug into personal bankruptcy filings to figure out what happened after Massachusetts lawmakers made health insurance mandatory […]

Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and a member at the Council on Foreign Relations, says that the video is an attempt to prise other rebel groups away from the lure of Isis and to join the Army of Islam’s similarly-brutal ranks. “The video tried to portray Isis as being in cahoots […]

Oregon has pending legislation that would require a schedule for exemption submissions and Washington is considering a bill that would eliminate the personal belief exemption. Legislation introduced around the country is pulling in two different directions, says Wendy Parmet, director of the Program on Health Policy & Law at Northeastern University. Some states are making […]

After providing insight and context to WGBH Radio listeners throughout the trial of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, professor Daniel Medwed, of Northeastern University School of Law, will become the official legal analyst for WGBH News starting this month. Medwed will provide commentary and analysis on legal issues and local and national court cases […]