A White House task force on Tuesday on college campuses, pointing to, among other things, programs designed to teach students to intervene before an assault happens. One of the programs, known as “bystander intervention,” is based on the idea that both men and women can interrupt behaviors to prevent sexual violence. The training is designed […]

Lalanya Tevyaw has been looking in vain for a job since last June, when she lost her $2,500-a-month position at a recycling scrapyard. Her dream is to operate excavators and other heavy machinery – “I’m not a sissy girl, I’m not an office person”, she jokes – and has just finished a six-week intensive training […]

Massachusetts’ economy grew at a good clip in the first three months of the year, even as economic growth nationally nearly ground to halt, according to state and federal economic reports released Wednesday. The state’s economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.6 percent between January and March, according to the University of Massachusetts and […]

Even if you don’t feel like downloading a bunch of apps, your phone’s browser can be a handy shopping tool, says Bruce Clark, associate professor of marketing and Frank Murphy Family Fellow at Northeastern University in Boston. “Found some good research sites? Leave those tabs open on your browser so that you can easily access […]

The debate in this country about the value of a college degree often centers around job preparation. A new poll out Tuesday from Northeastern University finds business leaders think few recent graduates have the skills to be good workers. The poll paints a rather bleak picture: Out of 800 business leaders polled nationally, 73 percent […]

Business leaders are increasingly pessimistic about whether college students are being adequately prepared for careers, according to an annual survey. Nearly nine out of 10 of 500 executives polled said graduates lack the necessary skills to succeed. And more than half said the United States is lagging behind its economic rivals in this measure. Nor […]

Fifty-four percent of business leaders believe the American higher-education system is falling behind developing and emerging countries in preparing students for the work force, according to a poll released by Northeastern University. The survey is the third in a series by the institution. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said college graduates lacked the most important skills […]

Nearly 30 percent of Boston’s top-level executives have stopped or slowed down recruiting students on college campuses since the Great Recession compared to just 17 percent of executives nationwide, according to the results of a Northeastern University poll released Tuesday. The survey included about 800 C-level executives nationwide, with 100 of them from Boston, Northeastern […]

Most business leaders (54 percent) believe the U.S. higher education system lags behind those of both developed and emerging countries, according to a new poll by Northeastern University. An overwhelming majority of executives (97 percent) believe that colleges should expand experiential learning, and nearly as many (89 percent) believe colleges should do more to teach […]

Creating a Smart Bike {Video}

In a country scandalized and outraged so easily, the sperm bank has been naturalized. To say one works at a sperm bank would cause no more of a commotion than to say one works at an investment bank, surely. But it was not always so. There had to be a first sperm bank, and those […]

At any given time the world’s oceans are littered with plastic fishing nets. Typically that trash would either drift along and perhaps ensnare a whale, sea turtle, or other marine life, or wash up on shore. But a Massachusetts native and two colleagues from the Northeast have a novel way to turn that pollution into […]