The hospital is beginning to collect and analyze the data with the help of researchers from Northeastern University. Dr. Weinstock hopes the study will help doctors better understand children’s emotional states, something he has referred to as the fourth vital sign. “We think a lot about heart rate, blood pressure and how much oxygen is […]

a. The Federal Work-Study Program offers students paid positions either on or off campus. Approximately 3,400 postsecondary institutions offer work-study positions. b. An internship allows a student to work in a real-world setting in a field he or she is interested in pursuing as a career. Many companies end up hiring their interns full time […]

The MLB has to face the recurring business issue of attracting the next generation of fans. The game (my favorite) can be slow and (dare I say) boring. Comm. Manfred (who has visited my Sports Law class) is aware of the need to keep the game moving forward. Cutting time off the average game seems […]

“What your brain is trying to do is guess what the sen­sa­tion means and what’s causing the sen­sa­tions so it can figure out what to do about them,” said Lisa Feldman Barrett, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University, in a press […]

The Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III joined Boston Public Radio for their regular Monday feature, “All Revved Up.” Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist who writes for Huffington Post and Bay Windows. Price is a professor of music atNortheastern University, and author of The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture.

While many Americans are aware of (and weary of) how the government is using cell-phone data to develop its counterterrorism intelligence, this data may be even more powerful for researchers (in the government and out) who are trying to understand the dynamics of the economy. A team of researchers recently did an experiment investigating just […]

Driving the growth are the state’s technology, biotechnology, and health care sectors, which have expanded solidly in recent years, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economist and author of the report. In addition, companies in another key sector, financial services, are hiring again, after several difficult years following the last recession and 2008 financial crisis.

The Navy exists “to put metal-on-metal, to project power,” says Stephen Flynn, a former Coast Guard commander and the founding director of the Center for Resilience Studies at Northeastern University. The Coast Guard’s less intimidating profile, Flynn adds, is actually that way on purpose. First off, a white vessel pulling into a foreign port sends […]

The research, by the sociologists Jacob Rugh, Len Albright and Douglas Massey, focuses on 3,027 loans made in Baltimore from 2000 to 2008 by Wells Fargo, which in 2012 agreed to pay $175 million to settle allegations of predatory lending in Baltimore and elsewhere. The study takes into account credit scores, income, down payments — […]

A recent study by Northeastern University found that sites such as CheapTickets and Orbitz quoted lower prices for users who logged in than for those who didn’t log in. Expedia and Hotels.com steered a segment of customers toward their more-expensive hotels. Searches of Travelocity’s and Home Depot’s websites using certain mobile devices yielded different results […]

Transit and urban planning wonks, rejoice: All the data on the neighborhoods around your favorite MBTA stations are now available online. With a new website called tstation.info, you can dig through the demographics surrounding transit stations, thanks to the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy for Northeastern University.

Dr. Nikos Passas is a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University, and has served as a consultant to the United Nations on anti-corruption matters. He says the laissez-faire system that governs major sports organizations domestically and abroad is largely to blame for a scandal of this magnitude. “You have the problems of lack of […]