Items preserved from the memorial that grew in Copley Square in the days after the Boston Marathon bombings will be displayed Tuesday at a free, public exhibit at Northeastern University, six months after the April 15 attacks. The exhibit will be open from 1 to 8 p.m. at Snell Library, 360 Huntington Ave. It will […]

4. Northeastern University (Boston, MA) Northeastern University is a private, research institution that is proud of having the “world’s largest and most innovative cooperative education program,” offering professional work, research, service, and global learning. Even in the beginning, in 1898, as the Evening School of the YMCA, Northeastern had a cooperative program which possessed these characteristics. Today, […]

Items preserved from the memorial that grew around Copley Square in the days after the Boston Marathon bombings will be displayed at a free, public exhibit at Northeastern University on Tuesday, six months after the April 15 attacks. The exhibit will be open from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Snell Library at 360 Huntington […]

Northeastern University announced this week that it would cover the costs for any of its 100-plus active-duty service members who could not access funding because of the shutdown. National University also said that benefit would be available to its population of nearly 3,900 active-duty service members.

Any recent grad can tell you that finding a job is an uphill battle right now. However, graduating from the right school can help you get on the right track for a successful career. Twenty-seven percent of unemployed adults have been looking for work for more than six months. Even among the employed, the numbers […]

Home prices are increasing, new building permits are on the rise, and foreclosures have dropped, offering the strongest evidence yet of a sustained recovery in the Greater Boston housing market, according to report to be released Thursday. In its most optimistic housing forecast in recent years, the nonprofit Boston Foundation predicts that housing and condominium […]

As a little girl, Marianne Mahoney would tag along to sports arenas to cheer on her older brother’s hockey games. But when she entered Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena last Saturday, she was the one receiving the applause. Mahoney, a 14-year-old Newton resident who has spina bifida, was drafted onto Northeastern’s women’s ice hockey team as […]

Bottom Line: Contrary to popular belief, a higher differential between CEOs’ compensation and that of regular employees does not lead to lower worker productivity or more slacking off on the job. In some cases, employees are actually motivated to work harder by the gap in pay—and to close it by moving swiftly up the corporate ladder. […]

DeDeo is not the only researcher grappling with these challenges. Across every discipline, data sets are getting bigger and more complex, whether one is dealing with medical records, genomic sequencing, neural networks in the brain, astrophysics, historical archives, or social networks. Alessandro Vespignani, a physicist at Northeastern University who specializes in harnessing the power of […]

We all know that iPads (or your favorite tablet of choice) are being used for more than personal reasons. Community tablets and other touchscreen devices have become commonplace, especially in doctor’s offices, where front desk personnel use them to check in patients. And most of us always have our iPhones or smartphones in our hands […]

Now that it has been over a week since the government shutdown, the public is starting to realize just how prominent a role our nation’s leaders play. Not only has the shutdown affected local tourist attractions, university research and the Panda Cam at the National Zoo, it has also delayed the funding for startup companies that receive financial assistance from […]

As the government shutdown dragged into a second week, college leaders and members of Congress urged the U.S. Department of Defense to reinstate its tuition-assistance program, and to let all civilian professors at the service academies return to work. On Sunday, Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University, sent a letter to the defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, […]