Mentorship is a huge part of professional success in higher education. If nothing else, having a solid mentor helps higher education professionals to develop valuable contacts and integrate themselves into their employer institution. Finding a mentor, though, can be a tricky thing. Some people are naturally good at formulating mentor-mentee relationships. Others simply don’t know […]

The eight-member panel was led by Jack McDevitt, a Northeastern University criminologist. It included the police chief in Natick, a former state mental health commissioner, a Harvard public health researcher, a former gang prosecutor in Suffolk County, a psychiatrist, and the superintendent of schools in Revere. Commission members said they met 15 times over the […]

Lingering fears in Sochi about terrorism and basic preparations just days ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies indicate the International Olympic Committee needs to overhaul its process for choosing host countries, experts tell the Herald. “The IOC has no internal expertise on security matters, so they really do have to rely on the […]

It’s no secret that subway maps are mere approximations of geography. Designed for maximum readability, they map the subway system onto stylized curves and evenly spaced stops. Still, the images of these familiar maps distorted by geographic accuracy are more striking than I even imagined. These maps were created by Benjamin M. Schmidt, an assistant […]

Student-led startups at Northeastern’s IDEA Venture Accelerator are given coaching, community, and funding. Max Kaye is the CEO, a position coordinated through Northeastern’s esteemed Co-op Program. He’s an undergraduate finance major, but sounds more like the startup-world people I encounter in mixers and meet-ups—passionate about young innovative companies, recognizes a huge need for change in […]

Studies have shown that, deliberately or not, companies tend to look askance at applicants who have been without a job for many months. Researchers at Northeastern University sent out 4,800 fictitious, computer-generated résumés and found that those from people out of work for six months or longer rarely got responses. Similarly, scholars from the University […]

A lot of marine scientists are more than happy to spend time in the ocean, placing instruments, taking samples, and getting a firsthand look around. Mark Patterson, an affable Harvard-educated professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University, takes it a bit farther. He’s lived on the seabed for a grand total of 87 […]

[VIDEO] Ten percent of the work force works at least part-time from home.

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In Massachusetts, unemployment also remains high — 7 percent in December, compared with 6.7 percent nationally. But Alan-Clayton Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor and one of authors of the UMass report, said he expects those rates to come down. He said the economy appears headed into a “classical recovery phase,” in which increased consumer […]

President Obama’s fifth State of the Union speech wasn’t his best, but it may have been his most entertaining. Freed from the illusion that Republicans will ever work with him, the president last night was upbeat, funny and slashingly partisan. He paid tribute to House Speaker John Boehner as “the son of a barkeep,” forcing a pained […]

In last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama announced a new effort to help Americans get “the skills employers need and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now” by increasing apprenticeships and community college training programs. The president is absolutely right to focus on using higher education to increase […]