At Northeastern University, international students who opt out of traveling abroad, or who haven’t experienced an American Thanksgiving, can celebrate early this year on November 26 at the Curry Student Center Ballroom. A meal will be provided by the International Student and Scholar Institute (ISSI), and will feature a lecture about the holiday as students […]

The concept is detailed in a 2009 research paper by Peter Furth, civil engineering professor and bike infrastructure expert at Northeastern University, who first came up with the idea. The street markings, he wrote, can help provide the “feel” of a bike lane — even if there’s no room for one. “It is a design […]

President Lincoln’s effort to reunite a nation torn in half by the long, bloody Civil War is considered one of the greatest speeches in American history. But Lincoln wasn’t even the keynote speaker that day at Gettysburg. That honor belonged to Edward Everett of Boston. He was a former Congressman, Senator, Governor of Massachusetts and […]

At the beginning of the fall semester, students dove into the Husky Startup Challenge with an idea. Fueled by a relentless entrepreneurial energy, however, the participating pool transformed their ideas into 19 different ventures — all of which were put on display at Northeastern Tuesday night. “The amount of things I’ve seen today that didn’t exist at […]

Northeastern University student volunteers will help teach low-income Boston families how to get online and navigate the Internet, officials announced Tuesday. Through Internet Essentials, a national program run by Comcast, low-income families can qualify for broadband Internet service at a reduced rate of $9.95 per month, plus tax, along with the option to purchase an Internet-ready […]

“The jury, given the evidence presented and looking only at that incident as opposed to other behaviors of his, came to the right verdict,” says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. “The rest of us have the benefit now of hindsight and foresight surrounding the trial. [But] we are not bound […]

Let’s just come right out and say it. Although our profession will rise again, right now being a lawyer just isn’t quite as cool as it used to be. Of course, people have thrown darts at lawyers since Shakespeare. But consider where things stand in today’s popular culture. Twenty years ago, Aaron Sorkin in “A […]

It is well known that Boston has become a thriving ecosystem in which entrepreneurs forge their businesses. There are accelerators for hardware, healthcare, software and social enterprises; affordable shared workspaces; open curriculum and workshops for those looking to build new skills, technical and fundamental. The list goes on. Perhaps the most significant characteristic is the […]

The pressure-cooker bombs that exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon last April 15 shattered bodies and lives. But their impact was felt far beyond the blast radius as the shock spread and authorities set out to find the perpetrators. The ensuing manhunt put an already traumatized city on lockdown. One of the […]

Among those working with Sharone is Rand Ghayad, a Northeastern University researcher and visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, who has published groundbreaking work on long-term unemployment. Ghayad, who mailed 4,800 fictitious resumes and recorded employer response rates, concluded that companies frequently screen out applicants who are unemployed for more than six months. Ghayad […]

On GPS this Sunday: More than 10 million Filipinos have been either displaced or left homeless by Typhoon Haiyan. But why was the impact so bad, and why was the response so slow? Fareed speaks with Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Center for Resilient Studies at Northeastern University, and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Laurie […]

In a recent study, Rand Ghayad a Ph.D. candidate at Northeastern University, sent out 4,800 dummy résumés to job postings. Those résumés that were supposedly from recently unemployed applicants with no relevant experience were more likely to elicit a call for an interview than those supposedly from experienced workers out of a job for more than six […]