Gavin King, a fifth-year computer science student, has found a way to make sharing photos with friends just as exciting as the experience of capturing them. His newly released mobile app, Tackboard, is a platform for users to collaborate on public photo collections, complete with geo-tagging and a sleek design. Tackboard allows users to sign […]

On November 16, when the Romanian people elected as president Klaus Iohannis, an ethnic German who ran a vigorous campaign against corruption, they shattered a number of illusions about politics in eastern Europe. Since the end of the Cold War, Western analysts and media have portrayed eastern Europe as a region dogged by a xenophobic […]

A while back, I had a not-so-close encounter of the bizarre kind during a visit to a physician’s office in a relatively safe suburb of Boston. Upon entering, I was surprised and unnerved to find a receptionist seated behind a bulletproof glass plate that extended all the way up to the ceiling. With some difficulty, […]

Now Chelsea is on the move, but, quite remarkably, without leaving behind its poor people. Chelsea’s history as a gateway city is worth noting and preserving. For decades, the city has welcomed waves of immigrants, offering affordable housing nearby to Boston’s jobs. Beginning with European immigrants 100 years ago, continuing with Latinos, more recently refugees […]

“This ‘one-in-five’ statistic shouldn’t just be taken with a grain of salt but the entire shaker,” said James Fox, professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University told PolitiFact this year. Large universities may not be representative of experiences at mid-size or small colleges. Further, the two colleges selected may not even be […]

The biggest problem is the study’s methodology. Researchers surveyed undergraduates at two unnamed large public universities (one in the Midwest and one in the South) and received 5,446 Web-based responses from women ages 18 to 25. That creates an obvious statistical issue: The results of a survey of two campuses cannot be extrapolated for the […]

The bottom line is that it makes sense to approach individual rape allegations based on their particular facts, not assumptions about what typically happens that could discourage rape victims from reporting the crime. In one 2010 study, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Northeastern University found that out of 136 cases of sexual assault […]

The Beveridge Curve is a visual relationship between unemployment and job vacancies. As Northeastern University’s Rand Ghayad and Bill Dickens first showed, the Beveridge Curve for the long-term unemployed has shifted sharply since the beginning of the recession. The shift shows that the job market for the long-term unemployed is uniquely bad–despite research finding less […]

Dr. Thomas Webster of Northeastern University discusses the CDC’s claim that the flu virus has mutated.

Elected officials, legal experts and police officers on Thursday differed on Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan ’s handling of the grand jury that declined to indict the officer involved in Eric Garner ’s death. Mr. Donovan promised a fair and thorough investigation when he convened the grand jury in August and went on to […]

Northeastern University (Mass.): What it pledged: Northeastern pledged to fund 150 scholarships for students from Boston’s public schools, including 30 new scholarships covering the full “demonstrated need” of low-income public-school students who live near the university’s main campus. What it’s done: The university has filled about 130 of the scholarship spots and says it will […]

Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice will launch a civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island in New York. That comes after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a plainclothes police officer involved in Garner’s death, despite a video of the incident. […]