Alan Schroeder is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University who has written extensively about presidential debates. “This comes up every single cycle,” he said when we spoke by phone on Monday morning. “More generally in the general election debates.” Candidates who don’t make the cut try to figure out how to finagle their way […]

One option is to reimagine Widett Circle as a dense 21st century loft manufacturing district. Currently, Widett Circle plays an important role as one of just a few center-city industrial-districts that keep Boston running. Other districts include the Boston Marine Industrial Park, Newmarket, Readville, Charlestown’s Mystic River waterfront, and similar areas in Chelsea and Somerville. […]

Most people, including many scientists, believe that emotions are distinct, locatable entities inside us — but they’re not. Searching for emotions in this form is as misguided as looking for cerebral clarinets and oboes. Of course, we experience anger, happiness, surprise and other emotions as clear and identifiable states of being. This seems to imply […]

“This is an exciting and unexpected discovery that questions the standard paradigm in the field,” Kim Lewis, director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University not involved with the study, told Tech Insider. To understand how mutations in many different genes affect the “fitness,” or ability to survive in and make a host sick, […]

Last year, for instance, the Brookings Institution reported that it took twice as long to fill science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, jobs as non-STEM posts. Meanwhile, academics like Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economics and public policy professor at Northeastern University, have focused attention on the middle-skills section of the labor market — nurses, […]

The Boston Globe is once again seeking buyouts, even as it ramps up to launch its life-sciences vertical, Stat, later this year. Editor Brian McGrory lays out the rationale in a memo to the staff, and warns that layoffs may follow if the unspecified goal isn’t reached.

Kevin Bell, who serves as executive director for online curriculum development and deployment at Northeastern University, put it somewhat more forcefully: “There needs to be a digital strategy for face-to-face courses, as well.” Interestingly, both MIT and Northeastern have been busily realigning their organizational structures in the digital realm to assist them in yielding a […]

Northeastern University Law Professor, Roger Abrams, met with WGBH’s Morning Edition to explain what Goodell’s decision means for Brady as well as the team. Abrams says that Goodell’s decision is not quite a done deal. Goodell cited several reasons for his decision to make the suspensions stick, in particular the destruction of Brady’s phone. “If […]

Other New England recipients and their projects include Yale University lecturer Edward Ball, who is writing about a Reconstruction-era klansman; Nicholas Basbanes, of North Grafton, on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Wesleyan University professor Andrew Curran on Denis Diderot; Smith College professor Michael Gorra on William Faulkner and the Civil War; Trinity College professor Christopher Hager on […]

Here is a full list of the newly named Public Scholars, their professional affiliations, book titles and grant amounts: • Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo, “Animals in the History of the United States,” $50,400. • Edward Ball, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., “Constant LeCorgne (1832-1886): Biography of a Klansman,” $50,400. • Nicholas Basbanes, independent scholar, North […]

The usual suspects still rule our annual Most Entrepreneurial Research Universities this year, with Stanford University on top once again. Only 3 newcomers make it on top 20: Brigham Young University, Northeastern and University of San Francisco, while San Diego State, UC Santa Barbara and Syracuse fell behind. FORBES ranked the country’s most entrepreneurial schools […]

“They want home-field advantage here, and frankly I have never seen this before,” said Roger I. Abrams, a professor of 
sports and labor law at Northeastern University. “This is very unusual, but they’re obviously trying to keep it away from David Doty.” Regardless of where the case is held, Brady’s argument will likely be the […]