There’s been a bit of positive antibiotics news of late. A team at Northeastern University in Boston recently announced a new antibiotic for tuberculosis, septicaemia and C. diff infections—the first new drug in 30 years. It could be on the market in as little as five years, but a lot more needs to be done. […]

Non-housing expenses also go for high prices in Bean Town. Groceries cost about 14.5% more than the national average, health care about 21.5% more, according to Sperling’s BestPlaces. “Health care costs here are very high because a large part of it is offered by very high-end teaching hospitals: Mass General, Beth Israel Deaconess, the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber, and […]

The death penalty was taken off the books for state cases in Massachusetts decades ago. But this is a federal case – with a personal angle. Most of those individuals who responded to a Boston Globe poll in July said they supported the decision to pursue the death penalty. “Some people say, ‘Well, he deserves […]

Managing teams requires good communication skills and social intelligence – areas which numerous studies have shown women enjoy a slight edge over men. A Columbia Business School program teaches social intelligence, including how to read facial expressions and body language. “We never explicitly say, ‘Develop your feminine side,’ but it’s clear that’s what we’re advocating,” […]

Mergers cost consumers money, even mergers in industries that are only moderately concentrated. That’s the conclusion of John Kwoka, an antitrust economist at Northeastern University, whose recent book “Mergers, Merger Control and Remedies” was published by MIT Press. In his book, Kwoka pulls together detailed studies of a long list of mergers into a single […]

Gender bias in language is not new or mind-blowing information. But it does represent a deeply entrenched idea of how women should express opinions or dissatisfaction, lead a team, or even teach a class. Ben Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University, created an interactive tool that analyzes 14 million teacher reviews on […]

Elevating the educational attainment of the population—often referred to as “college for all”—has become one of the dominant policy goals of our time. However, dynamics are changing as the trends of soaring college costs and flattening enrollment rates have collided with the talent demands of a robust global job market, which today features unemployment rates […]

Instructors with American names were more likely to earn effusive praise from students. Students were more likely to say that an American professor was the “best math teacher I have ever [had]” and the word “best” appeared in fewer reviews of Asian professors. Last month, a separate analysis of comments on Ratemyprofessors.com, by a history […]

On Tuesday, March 3, a hearing will take place for both sides to exercise peremptory challenges, which allows them to dismiss certain potential jury members for reasons that need not be explained. This will whittle the jury pool down to the applicable 12 bench members and 6 alternates. Tsarnaev’s defense team threw up a proverbial Hail Mary […]