The survey is hardly the first evidence that employers don’t think college graduates are adequately prepared. A 2014 study from Bentley University found that both employers and recent college graduates themselves believe graduates are not prepared for their first jobs. A Gallup study released in the same year found that employers doubt colleges produce students […]

Speaking during a panel discussion about Boko Haram on CBC Radio’sThe Current last week, Max Abrahms, a terrorism expert at Northeastern University in Boston, said that people think of Boko Haram’s violence “less as a terrorist campaign and more as a civil war. “And when it’s seen as a civil war it tends to attract […]

Northeastern University held its annual celebration celebration of King, called “A Tribute to the Dream” on Thursday, January 15. Award-winning filmmaker Yoruba Richen, producer of “The New Black: The Intersection of Race, LGBTQ Rights, and the Fight for Equality,” delivered a speech and the Unity Gospel Choir performed

With three unemployed workers for every job opening, employers can be selective. In startling research, Rand Ghayad, a labor economist at Northeastern University, found that prospective employers consistently threw out resumes of applicants with a recent stint of unemployment in favor of applicants with consistent work histories — even applicants with less education or no […]

Expanding paternity leave for fathers will help make families stronger, advocates say, noting that the more both parents are involved in the lives of their children, the more successful those children will be. Having time to care for and bond with a newborn can instill in men a “sense of fatherhood” that can lead to […]

It was the alchemists’ old dream to create gold from dross. Now microbiologists from Boston and Bonn, Germany, may have come up with the medical equivalent — a potentially breakthrough antibiotic derived from microbes dwelling in plain old New England dirt. It will be at least two years before the antibiotic is ready for clinical […]

But U.S.-Nigeria relations are complicated, likely because of current President Goodluck Jonathan, who has been accused of allowing widespread corruption, violence and even war crimes, said Max Abrahms, a professor of political science and terrorism analyst at Northeastern University. “The nature of that bilateral cooperation never truly materialized because the Goodluck Jonathan administration also has […]

After years of worrying about the potential for terror attacks as hundreds of fighters returned from Syria with fresh combat skills, European security officials mobilized yesterday, swooping in on the jihadist cells they’d been monitoring for months. “Western authorities have warned about jihadists traveling to conflict zones and then coming back to attack the West […]

The recruiter’s message is appalling to most, but for some, it carries the promise of belonging and purpose, of being part of something more valuable than even their own lives. For someone like Cornell, who appears to have had few friends and a penchant for anti-government conspiracy theories, the radical Islam he discovered online might […]

The attack against the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo was claimed by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni branch of the movement, which is “particularly worrisome for the US.” “AQAP is making a lot of noise right now and understandably that that gives US security officials jitters,” said Abrahms, who teaches at Northeastern University. “It […]

According to Max Abrahms, a professor at Northeastern University whose work has been published in dozens of scholarly journal articles regarding terrorism, previous attempts by Western governments to stomp out terrorist threats in the Middle East have done more harm than good. “One of the ironies about the coalition against the Islamic State is that […]

As early as the 1700s, scientists built speaking machines that, through various combinations of reeds, bellows, and pipes, simulated the sounds of the human voice. Then, in 1939, Bell Labs debuted its “VODER” (Voice Operation DEmonstratoR), which simulated the physics of speech with electrical circuits—in a decidedly robotic tone. Today, of course, we have the […]