Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and member at Council on Foreign Relations, says the video demonstrates the desire of women within conservative Muslim societies to prove that they have a contribution to make. “What I got out of the video, is that this is an effort for women to assert themselves […]

In some ways, the cameraman’s actions fall into a gray area, said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and a former producer at WBZ. Cusanelli, who has worked at WHDH for 16 years, testified that he intended only to scout the location where jurors are picked up and dropped off so that Channel […]

According to Carole Bell, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who has done extensive research on gay representation in pop culture, simply seeing gay characters on the small screen can foster acceptance. In an interview with HuffPost, she explained research which substantiates this impact: “For people who didn’t have a lot of exposure previously, who […]

Sing It On, produced by John Legend, will follow five college a cappella teams on the road to the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) Finals. The groups include the AcaBelles (Florida State University), All Night Yahtzee (Florida State University), No Comment (University of Illinois), Nor’easters (Northeastern University), and Pitch, Please! (Northeastern University).

Fortunately, the Massachusetts economy is doing very well. Companies are growing, the workforce is increasing, and people want to live near public transit. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council projects that there will be 75,000 new residential units and commercial space and 130,000 new jobs located near MBTA transit and commuter stations by 2035. The South […]

If the opinion of more than 200 Bostonians, as per a poll conducted by WBUR in late March, is fairly representative of Boston’s preferred sentence for Tsarnaev in general (as well as the jurors’) the domestic terrorist could very well receive life in prison. But the jury’s relatively quick deliberation of Tsarnaev’s conviction could be […]

Ben Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University and former graduate fellow at the Cultural Observatory, is quoted as saying that Harvard uses the OSDC to process and provide fast, structured access to the data from huge digital libraries: “Currently that means a public-facing visualization at arxiv.culturomics.org that scientists can use to explore […]

Pitch in the City is a little bit of Cambridge, MA, in Dudley Square. The entrepreneurs who are pitching have startups mostly from Smarter in the City, Roxbury’s first high-tech accelerator and one of the nation’s few minority-focused accelerators. The other entrepreneurs have been through or are part of MassChallenge or Future Boston Alliance’s accelerator. […]

Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and member at the Council on Foreign Relations, predicts that the real number of ISIS’s mass killings is even higher and will be revealed as the group is rolled back from the areas it controls, such as Mosul, which a U.S. Central Command (Centcom) official revealed […]

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty on all 30 counts in the Marathon bombing trial. Adam Reilly was inside the court when the verdict was read and gave his take. We also talked about what’s next in the trial with our panel of legal experts: Harvard Criminal Justice Institute’s Ronald Sullivan, former Homeland Security official […]

From the prosecution’s perspective, the relatively quick guilty verdicts on all 30 counts might suggest that what they’re doing is working – and they should continue. “In a case like this it appears pretty clear that the prosecution has momentum,” says Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston. The timing of verdicts […]

Moret is a first-year graduate student in Northeastern’s Information Design and Visualization program. The program was started in 2013 as a unique merger of analysis and design meant to help researchers tell their data stories to a broader audience. “[Visual communication] allows people to catch the gist of something at a glance. . . that’s […]