Athletic director Peter Roby is not with the Northeastern Huskies at the Consol Energy Center this week. Roby was in Dayton for NCAA first-round games Tuesday and Wednesday, then drove to Columbus to oversee the NCAA subregional at Nationwide Arena in the heart of Buckeye Nation. He says he’ll watch the Huskies’ NCAA Tournament game […]

Northeastern’s basketball team occupies a distinctive niche in the sporting culture of a university that does not have a football team, which was disbanded in 2009 because it was too expensive. The hockey team is perennially good, and perhaps the university’s most prominent athletic program, but it has not won the Beanpot — the tournament […]

While shopping via a mobile device delivers advantages, it shouldn’t be the only way you buy online, according to Christo Wilson, assistant professor of computer and information science at Northeastern University in Boston. A study co-authored by Wilson and released in 2014 found that on 16 retail and travel websites, product and price selections sometimes […]

And while the jury selection process finished several weeks ago — the trial is now in its third week — the unfilled questionnaires provide some interesting insight into how the prosecution and defense teams in the trial have been trying to establish and support their arguments. The questionnaires also offer a glimpse into how unusual […]

Issued Wednesday morning by The Boston Foundation and prepared by the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, the 12th annual Greater Boston housing report card says this mismatch is having major consequences, including a loss of housing options for working families. According to the report, the tight housing market in Boston […]

A van uses technology to find where potholes are, and Northeastern students hope that will help the city find them and fix them sooner.

A gold van could be a goldmine for Boston-area commuters driving on roads filled with potholes. “It helps us to identify potholes and bumps and depressions and other types of distresses,” David Vines, a Northeastern PhD student, said. Vines and the van are part of the Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors, or VOTERS vehicle, […]

By 2030, the numbers of households headed by somebody 65 or older in the Boston area could increase by 282,000, the largest jump of any age group, as baby boomers age. Many are seeking to downsize in the city, adding to housing pressures that are driving prices and rents higher. Condos or rental units in […]

The average American household pays roughly $17,000 in federal income taxes each year. And while we’re all faced with the same burden in that regard, there is significant disparity when it comes to state and local taxes. For example, taxpayers in the most expensive states spend three-times more to meet their civic burden than those […]

Here’s a fact: greater Boston is experiencing and urban renaissance. Also fact: greater Boston is experiencing an escalating housing crisis. Just how long can the two realities coexist before something has to give? Before the significant advances the region has made begin to slip away, simply because it’s too expensive to live here? That’s the […]

The long-simmering debate over mandatory minimum sentencing in Massachusetts has reached a boiling point. Chief Justice Ralph Gants of the Supreme Judicial Court has admirably lobbied against mandatory minimum sentencing in drug cases, a legislative proscription that compels judges to sentence drug offenders to a minimum amount of time in prison without the ability to […]

Carole Bell, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who studies media, politics and identity, said many of the new shows on network television that feature nonwhite characters — including ABC’s Black-ish and Asian American-centered Fresh Off the Boat — begin with more stereotypical characterizations that have broadened as the shows progress. “I don’t think Cookie […]