Rachel E. Rosenbloom, an associate professor at Northeastern University School of Law, said Farney’s bill wouldn’t really have much of an impact on the specific obstacles facing those citizens. In short, that’s because many children of immigrants who run into difficulty proving their citizenship already have a delayed birth certificate recognized by the state of […]

Yet if in this instance I confused conversation with action, I can name dozens more times when online exchanges have helped me be brave. Often Phoebe and I message each other just before we’re about to do something scary. We give each other the nudge we need to swing from contemplation into deed, to buy […]

The close correlation the authors found between urban development and access to mass transit also means that the state will have to find answers to the many problems the MBTA faced this winter. “It’s clear from this research that reliable and efficient transit service is vital to the success of walkable urban places, which are […]

“Benevolent sexism is this belief about how women are pure and wonderful but at the same time, they are weak and very incompetent,” says Jin X. Goh, co-author of the study and a psychology Ph.D. candidate at Northeastern University. “On the surface it’s great, but the underlying intention is that women are inferior.” In the […]

The report was done in collaboration with Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council and LOCUS, a coalition of real estate developers. The report identified 57 walkable urban places around Boston stretching out to I-495 and looked at how the land is being used — whether for offices, […]

Shaky, jittery, nervous, afraid — you might associate these words with going skydiving or on a job interview. But researchers at Northeastern University and Bridgewater State University believe those terms might also describe your morning commute. As the MBTA seeks to regain the confidence of riders after weeks of cancellations and delays, a pair of […]

Thirty minutes after the final buzzer, once the net had been cut down, hugs exchanged, and pictures taken, Northeastern’s basketball team gathered in a corner of the court near the school band, which hadn’t stopped playing celebratory music. The players, all of them, began to dance. It wasn’t the best display, to be perfectly honest, […]

The second Twitter account can help the prosecution establish Tsarnaev’s personal motive and state of mind before the bombings, says Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Boston’s Northeastern University. “At least so far we haven’t heard much evidence about his thoughts before the incident so it’s important to establish motive and state of mind,” says […]

Millions of lives worldwide depend on science’s ability to find new antibiotics. The improvisation and persistence of Northeastern University’s Slava S. Epstein may now be one of their best hopes. For decades, his fellow scientists banged their heads over most bacteria’s refusal to grow in laboratories. Mr. Epstein, a Russian émigré biology professor and a […]

For research institutions seeking assurances that they too can grow fast, Northeastern University may be a case of cold comfort. The institution owes its steady rise—from 163rd to 136th nationally in research spending over the past decade—to some deliberate strategies that should have wide application. But the underlying conditions were decades in the making. And […]

As institutions throughout the state struggle to maintain research funding amid stagnating federal grant dollars,Northeastern University’s research program has doubled its research budget in the past eight years. The college will have added almost 450 faculty by the end of this year since 2006. It has already begun construction of a $225 million Interdisciplinary Science […]

Have McDonald’s and Burger King lived up to their promise? Not at all, argues a new study, published last week in the journal PLoS One. A team of researchers from Dartmouth University’s medical school and Northeastern University’s law school analyzed Burger King and McDonald’s TV ads that aired over a year between 2009 and 2010. […]