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 […]

There’s another, somewhat mysterious dimension to a gardener’s pleasure, though, and that’s your partnership with a living soil. Ever since penicillin was first crafted from a soil fungus, the earth has yielded up agents of healing. As recently as January, researchers at Northeastern University announced a newly tested antibiotic produced from a soil sample that […]

The constant stream of reports of civilian deaths, along with evidence that botched strikes might exacerbate extremist violence, has brought criticism in Washington and abroad. “There’s no consensus on whether drones are an effective instrument because there’s no consensus over how to define success,” Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University who studies […]

Before you pick a card based on the cause it claims to support, “read the fine print,” says Coleen Pantalone, an associate professor of finance at Northeastern University. “Don’t get swept away by the ad.” You may find you’re better off choosing another card — or forgoing a green credit card altogether and contributing directly […]

Michael Meltsner is a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, where he previously served as dean. He was also the first assistant counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund helping to bring forward cases that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1972 decision in Furman V. Georgia, which at the time placed a moratorium […]

Walk across an American college campus today and you will be offered an almost overwhelming number of opportunities to get involved and give back, with students seeking donations or offering information about issues ranging from cancer research to education in low-income countries and every other worthy cause in between. As representatives on the END7 campaign’s […]