Two civil rights advocates argued Wednesday against the reappointment of state parole board member Lucy Soto-Abbe, saying she is wrong for the panel because of her background as a longtime victim witness advocate and tendency to deny parole. Addressing the Governor’s Council, attorneys Patricia Garin and Leslie Walker said they would like to see more […]

Renewable-energy advocates need to emphasize economic development and jobs as they lobby North Carolina’s legislators to protect the state’s most important green-energy initiatives, saysMichael Youth, policy director of the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association. Youth spoke Wednesday to a crowd of about 50 at Northeastern University’s“Sustainable Energy: Policy and Practice” forum at the university’s Charlotte campus. He […]

The findings may also have implications for designing functional artificial or regenerated limbs and organs, noted Günther Zupanc, a neurobiologist at Northeastern University, who also did not participate in the study. “If they don’t connect to the brain, they’re useless,” Zupanc explained. The new research provides clues about “what kind of instructions we need to provide […]

The transportation of people and goods from one place to another creates about one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions. Of that, 80 percent comes from cars and trucks. What are the prospects for reducing those emissions? How is global climate change already affecting existing transportation systems? And how will it affect the ways we build […]

Segment 3: Since state authorities started investigating his parents for child abuse earlier this week, everyone seems to have developed an opinion on 9-year-old Brockton rapper Lil Poopy. Authorities reportedly started investigating Lil Poopy’s parents after viewing a music video in which he appears in sexually suggestive situations. Northeastern University associate professor of music Emmett G. […]

Much hangs in the balance in Red Sox Nation. Roger Abrams, former Major League Baseball salary arbitrator and current Northeastern Law Professor, joined us on the line from spring training in Florida. … What do you think of women competing in traditionally “male” sports? North Andover High School student Danielle Coughlin made national headlines when she became the […]

Did you know that February 28 is Rare Disease Day? Probably not, despite the fact that more than 700,000 classified rare disorders affect nearly 30 million Americans. Whether it’s finding specialists who can diagnose us, advocating for our needs, or getting effective medications when blockbuster drugs get much of the funding, rare disease patients live […]

Maxine Roca, a graduate of Northeastern University — famous for experiential education — was a teacher with Teach for America and ended up becoming a recruiter at her old high school, Bishop Loghian, before taking over a classroom. She had the insight that many people were nervous about going to a gym and did not […]

In a recently published security brief, Big Data Fuels Intelligence Driven Security, experts from RSA, Northeastern University and Booz Allen Hamilton set out the components for a Big Data-oriented security management system: Set a holistic cyber-security strategy: Align security capabilities behind a holistic cyber security strategy customized for your organization’s specific risks, threats and requirements. Establish a […]

So instead of constant odes to the past, I want to see people like Marquis Landon Cabrera lauded during Black History Month. Just a few decades ago, the 24-year-old Cabrera would have been considered a statistic with poor odds. He bounced around foster homes till he was 15. But then he was adopted by a […]

“FOUNDATION”, a novel by Isaac Asimov from the golden age of science fiction, imagines a science called psychohistory which enables its practitioners to predict precisely the behaviour of large groups of people. The inventor of psychohistory, Hari Seldon, uses his discovery to save humanity from an historical dark age. A fantasy, of course. But the […]

“The fruit ripens slowly,” the Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj once observed, “but it drops suddenly.” In a similar fashion, MOOCs (or massive open online courses) seem to have arrived almost out of nowhere, in quick succession – first Udacity in February of last year, followed by Coursera in April, then edX in May. Remarkable as it […]