Massachusetts employers, meanwhile, added 7,400 jobs in May, the ninth consecutive month of payroll gains for the state. During the past year, the state’s economy has created more than 70,000 jobs, the strongest job growth since the dot-com boom at the beginning of the century. “Another month, another good employment report,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a […]

Jef Aérosol’s stay at Northeastern University has been full of pleasant surprises. In addition to the large mural he was commissioned to spray paint on the side of Cargill Hall facing Huntington Avenue, small renditions of the French artist’s signature stencil graffiti have been popping up all over campus, to be uncovered by passersby in chance […]

Behavioral studies have shown similar findings. For example, in a study conducted by Paul Condon and Dave DeSteno of Northeastern University, and Gaelle Desbordes of Massachusetts General Hospital, the research team sent a group of people to an eight-week mindfulness training course. Afterwards, they tested the people who received the mindfulness training versus people who […]

WGBH Legal Analyst Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University Law Professor, discusses juvenile murder suspects being charged as adults in Massachusetts with WGBH Morning Edition host Bob Seay.

Veteran business journalist Jonathan Kaufman will be the next director of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, the college announced Tuesday. Kaufman, the Bloomberg News executive editor, will begin July 13. He will oversee a team of faculty who teach 225 undergraduate journalism students as well as growing graduate programs. He succeeds associate professor Dan Kennedy, […]

Interestingly, research by Northeastern University scholars Jack McDevitt and Jack Levin, show that most perpetrators are young males with shallow prejudices out for a thrill, rather than hardened bigots like Cobb.

Since 2000, the homicide total in the city has ranged from 39 to 75, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. Looking at a shorter time period, like the first 5½ months of the year, produces even greater variation, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. “Just because the homicide count is a […]

Pope Francis is to make history this week with a call for international cooperation to avert dangerous global warming – the Vatican’s most powerful statement yet on the environment and climate change. A leaked draft of the encyclical – a special type of edict used to define key priorities for the Catholic church and its […]

“It’s an exceptional score, really, and I think one thing that distinguishes it from any other score I can think of is just how memorable that main theme is and what a perfect match it is for the shark,” said Matthew McDonald, associate professor of film music at Northeastern University. “I taught my five-year-old to […]

“The key challenges associated with the development of high performance MEMS and NEMS resonators for RF wireless communication and sensing applications are the isolation of energy-dissipating mechanisms and scaling of the device volume in the nanoscale size-range,” Rinaldi, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, tells Nanowerk. “We […]

However, some experts believe the lack of contribution from Washington’s coalition partners is of less significance in the battle against Isis than persuading local Sunni forces to co-operate with the coalition and the Iraqi military to help defeat the terror group. “If I were to rank all of the different reasons for the growth of […]

Max Abrahms, a terrorism expert at Northeastern University, said al Qaeda has tried recently to present itself as a more moderate force in Yemen in a multifaceted conflict involving Houthi rebels. In Syria, the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front has battled against Islamic State militants as well as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Some coalition partners have […]