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Northeastern to invest more than $220 million in financial aid

The university will provide an unprecedented $221.4 million in institutional grant aid for the 2014-15 academic year.

by Kara Shemin April 16, 2014

Northeastern launches Social Impact Lab to empower global change

The innovative new lab provides curricula, programming, and events designed to empower social change and includes a re-launch of “Giving With Purpose,” the world’s first…

by Kara Shemin January 22, 2014

3Qs: Losing our religion?

The Pew Research Center American Values Survey, which polled more than 3,000 adults nationwide, found that approximately one in five Americans don’t have a religious…

by Kara Shemin August 8, 2012

3Qs: A ‘symbol of an unfulfilled promise’

Anne Frank, one of the most well known Jewish victims of the Holocaust, was captured by the Nazi Gestapo on Aug. 4, 1944, 68 years…

by Kara Shemin August 3, 2012

The husky wears Prada

A journalism student has spent the last year working at Vogue magazine, turning her co-op and internship into a full-time summer job.

by Kara Shemin June 25, 2012

3Qs: China overtakes U.S. in smartphone market

Fareena Sultan, professor of marketing in the College of Business Administration, explains how and why China has become the king of the mobile phone market.

by Kara Shemin June 20, 2012

Faculty Reads, Volume 10

In the 10th edition of recent faculty books, we highlight works about the unintended consequences of our decision-making, a fiction piece about a grad student’s…

by Kara Shemin April 11, 2012

3Qs: Analyzing Greece’s latest bailout

On Monday evening, Greece agreed to a last-minute economic bailout deal – its second – which may have warded off an all-out financial calamity in…

by Kara Shemin February 22, 2012

3Qs: Forecasting 2012 for the BRIC nations

In 2001, Goldman Sachs grouped the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — into that acronym because they were at a similar stage…

by Kara Shemin February 8, 2012

Faculty Reads, Volume Nine

In the ninth edition of recent faculty books, we highlight works about effective typography, the ethics of philanthropy and the spiritual undertones of jazz legend…

by Kara Shemin January 5, 2012

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