12-12-2008:  Northeastern Receives Grant from National Institute of Justice to Study Careers of Police Officers

“Now, agencies are seeing officers depart the force to join another agency or go into a completely new field after just a few years, and we want to understand how these changes are affecting the profession,” said McDevitt.
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10-17-2008:  Northeastern Receives NSF Award to Study Self-Efficacy and Retention of Female Undergraduate Engineering Students

The research team will investigate the hypothesis that women in formal engineering programs who participate in work related to their field of study during their undergraduate studies have higher self-efficacy and are more likely to graduate with a degree in their chosen field.
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09-25-2008:  Researcher's Multidisciplinary Team Awarded Federal Grant to Study What Makes Humans Trust Each Other

DeSteno’s team will carry out eight studies designed to examine the interplay of emitted nonverbal cues, mimicry, and embodied representations in decisions to trust within the context of playing behavioral economic games. »

09-10-2008:  Northeastern Receives 3.7 Million-Dollar ADVANCE Award from the National Science Foundation

Northeastern’s five-year program will build on the university’s existing projects by focusing on increasing recruitment of women, providing opportunities for networking to help advance female faculty, and fostering leadership development to oversee these opportunities across university departments.
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06-06-2008:  Prof. Barabasi Discusses Groundbreaking Research on Human Mobility in Nature Cover Story

The authors were able to follow individuals in real-time and discovered that despite the diversity of their travel history, humans follow simple reproducible patterns.
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06-04-2008:  Northeastern University Researcher Finds "Hypersegregation" May Contribute to Preterm Births Among Black Women

“We believe that the association between residential segregation and higher risk of preterm birth is related to the neighborhood environments in which Black women live, including neighborhoods characterized by high levels of poverty, violent crime, and worse housing stock.”
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04-11-2008:  Economics Professor Steven Morrison Awarded Distinguished Transportation Researcher

The Distinguished Transportation Researcher Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding accomplishments as research scholars in the field of transportation. »

04-01-2008:  Marketing Professor Gloria Barczak Examines How Technology Impacts the Development of New Products

Some of the barriers that companies face when trying to integrate IT into new NPD processes include cost, training needs, reliance on existing IT infrastructure. »

11-19-2007:  Northeastern University Receives NSF Grant to Raise Environmental Awareness with Computer Simulation Game

The Shortfall project will bring the growing concerns of environmental awareness and diverse learning styles together in an innovative learning model aimed at educating future engineering leaders. »

09-11-2007:  Northeastern's Institute on Race and Justice Awarded Grant to Create National Human Trafficking Reporting System

NU's Institute on Race and Justice has been awarded grant from the US Department of Justice to develop and implement the first data collection and reporting system on cases of human trafficking. »