Research by Northeastern University Professor Benjamin Schmidt confirms Martin’s findings. Late last year he developed an interactive chart that explores college students’ anonymous reviews. Female faculty are more likely to be characterized as “approachable,” “helpful,” “nice” and the dreaded “bossy.”

We spoke to Max Abrahms, a Northeastern University political science professor and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, about America’s division over whether the Charleston shootings were a terrorist attack. He joined us from Boston, Massachusetts. Most of the focus has — understandably — been on America’s legacy of racism. But hate knows no borders, and even […]

Jack Levin, an expert in hate crimes and criminology at Northeastern University, says there’s no blanket explanation for why those states haven’t signed on. In South Carolina, hate crime legislation has been brought up in numerous legislative sessions, including every year between 2009 and 2014, and it will no doubt be debated again soon, in […]

Kim Lewis, who directs the antimicrobial discovery centre at Northeastern University, US, is unconvinced the project will hit upon a new major class of antimicrobial. He points out that efforts to screen soil microorganisms for novel antibiotics have not produced anything new in recent decades. But he adds that having a collection of freely accessibly […]

Barry Bluestone, an economist and director of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said the disappointing sales of recent months may prove temporary as demographic changes over the longer term spur increased activity. Aging baby boomers will continue to downsize to smaller quarters over the next few years, while younger families will […]

Last week’s murder of nine African Americans at a historic church in Charleston may seem like a continuation of a terrible trend — hate-motivated murder of blacks — albeit with an unusually large victim count. That would be true were we back in the civil-rights era of the 1960s, when such hate killings almost exclusively […]

The Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III joined Boston Public Radio for their regular Monday segment, “All Revved Up.” They talked about the shooting in the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina last week, including what to label the shooting, and whether we’re focused on the right things in the wake […]

Inside a secure facility at Northeastern University, Dr. Adam Hall, shows me how a spectrometer works. It’s an instrument used to measure wavelengths of light spectra. I’m here to speak with Hall about bombs and bomb making. In addition to being a chemist and academic, Hall is also a former forensics expert for the Massachusetts […]

Although Apple is likely to use some algorithms to filter stories, the hiring of experienced journalists is a positive step, said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. “A lot of people don’t want to be fed news that a robot has decided interests them,” Kennedy told AFP. “Especially if you don’t have any […]

More details are emerging about Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old suspect in the shooting deaths of nine people in Charleston. NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Northeastern University professor James Fox.

A photograph of suspected Charleston shooter Dylann Roof, found on a website that may belong to him, shows Roof crouched over the numbers “1488” etched in the sand. The numbers have special significance to white supremacists. In 2008, after an assassination plot against then-candidate Barack Obama was discovered, Brian Palmer explained why.The article is reprinted […]

What does it mean to identify across race lines and to claim a racial identity disconnected from background or biology? Why does so-called reverse passing (white to black) generate such extraordinary attention and controversy? The Rachel Dolezal case reveals a conundrum in race debates that remains unresolved.