“It’s a new kind of animal,” says Nick Ducoff, Northeastern University’s vice president for new ventures. In his position, he says, he gets “inundated with emails from people trying to hawk certain things.” He’d open emails from Mr. Freedman, says Mr. Ducoff, “because he’s authentic in the field.”

According to the CDC, over two million people are infected by drug-resistant bacteria every year, and 23,000 die of related infections. Many companies have discontinued antibiotics development due to poor returns on investment and only two new antibiotics have been approved since 2009. Initial studies by researchers at Northeastern University in Boston recently developed a […]

Dov Waxman, professor at Northeastern University, says Israel is right to highlight that Iran rejects Israeli state

Apprenticeships are different and more intensive than internships. An apprentice gig is typically formal training for a job, where the employer plans to hire the apprentice. And apprenticeships last longer and pay better than internships. A better comparison is cooperative education. Northeastern University has the most widely acclaimed co-op program, where students combine classroom studies […]

One team of emerging architects, called studioMAUD — which recently won an innovation award from Northeastern University — proposes that Boston take modular construction to a whole new level. Rather than ship modular units from an existing factory in Pennsylvania and, soon, a new one in Brooklyn, N.Y., these architects are rightly suggesting Boston build […]

Fourteen years after the publication of “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser, with its fierce indictment of the industry, consumers prefer a healthier brand of fast food. This is especially true of millennials, those 18-to-34-year-olds who have increasingly busy work lives and eat out a lot. This spells trouble for traditional fast food restaurants like […]

Both Periscope, owned by Twitter, and Meerkat allow users to live-stream personal videos. Cue footage of comedians washing their hair and families going for a bicycle ride – trending in Germany last week. However, Periscope has already proved itself invaluable for citizen journalists, according to Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston, […]

Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed says the report’s findings may affect Tsarnaev’s prosecution. “It could, as a legal matter, comprise newly discovered evidence that could give rise to a new trial motion afterwards that would challenge some of the charge, specifically the ones that relate to the firefight,” Medwed said. The report applauds many […]

When you hear about an outbreak of a new virus in another country, do you often wonder where it will hit next? You’re not alone. Thanks to new tools that make it easier for scientists to track the spread of disease, we may one day be able to predict — with far better accuracy — […]

To be sure, the statute was poorly written. But instead of attempting to parse its vague language, as Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy points out, national media focused primarilyon backlash to the legislation or political angles of the story. “[If] you want to know what, exactly, the law would do,” he writes at Boston […]

Drilling down on the number of crimes committed by whites who are also male is more challenging. Federal data allows you to sort on race and sex, but not both at the same time. The exception is for homicides. While you won’t find that information on the Justice Department website, it can be culled from […]

GLEAM, a project out of Northeastern University, is an epidemic forecaster 10 years in the making. It combines data on population—where people live down to a resolution of 25 square miles—along with how people commute and travel, characteristics of disease, and possible responses like travel restrictions and vaccination efforts. After crunching all this data, the […]