College students struggle to eat healthy. It can be even harder on a vegan diet. Madeline Heising learned this her freshman year at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Though she had been a vegetarian since she was 10 years old, adjusting to the fast-paced lifestyle and budget constraints of college made it difficult to maintain […]

Daniel S. Medwed, a Northeastern University criminal law professor who has followed the case closely, said the letter and the discussion that followed might have changed people’s minds. “It didn’t talk about moral opposition. It was much more about the process of the death penalty case and being dragged through this for years and years,” […]

Indeed, the drug shortage study’s findings indicate that “this is a big problem, one that we don’t really yet have a strategy to deal with,” study author Larissa May, M.D., of George Washington University, said in a statement. “There are some significant implications for patient care that are very disturbing and are likely to become […]

Boston’s Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design offers a variety of degrees in game design and computer science. They also have partnerships with studios like Microsoft and Zynga that can lead to co-op placements for game design students.

Northeastern University law school professor Mary O’Connell taught Bonauto family law and recalls her former student as a dedicated person who developed a commitment to fighting discrimination of gays and lesbians early on. “It’s been her conviction for decades and decades,” O’Connell said. “She was offended by this discrimination by a certain group of people. […]

Northeastern University May 8, 10:30 a.m., TD Garden Speaker: David Muir, ABC news anchor Honorary degrees: Muir; Lawrence S. Bacow, president emeritus of Tufts University; Vanessa Kerry, co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health; and Gabriel Jaramillo, former chairman, president, and CEO at Santander Holdings USA.

A Boston-based startup is using technology to close a key gap in the legal world. JustiServ is run by Michael Gants and his mother, Northeastern University law professor Deborah Ramirez. “JustiServ is a website where anyone can go to figure out what their legal problem is, which lawyers handle it, what they charge and what […]

Asking for a Raise You’re sure you deserve one, but this is a tricky thing to ask for given that you don’t want to rock the boat with your boss. “You are negotiating with a person with whom you have a long-term relationship, and this kind of negotiation should be cooperative and ‘win-win,'” says Ed […]

A FOX25 and Northeastern University School of Journalism investigation uncovered growing concerns from people inside and outside state government about the reliability of the electronic monitoring equipment used in Massachusetts. The result is two-fold. Crime victims and the public are left with a false sense of security, while some probationers and parolees are being unfairly […]

All this being said, the return of an NFL franchise to the nation’s second-largest city after 20 years of absence, would be a real reason for celebration, for many, analysts say. “This would be a huge feather in the cap for Los Angeles in terms of having the NFL pedigree in a city that has […]

Some experts have questioned the utility of the Obama administration’s “decapitation strategy”, arguing that it only serves to splinter and further radicalize terror organizations. Recently published research by Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, has suggested that terror groups with fragmented leaderships are more likely to target civilians. “My research suggests […]

Until now, science had not been able to isolate the specific physical cues that could lead to distrust. But thanks to Dr. David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, we now know what gestures can undermine the perception of our trustworthiness. Dr. DeSteno devised a study in which participants played an economic game […]