Housing availability in Boston has been a particular passion for Mayor Thomas Menino, who is fast-tracking developments across the city during his final four months in office. It’s part of his last pushto address a housing affordability crisis that’s been a persistent problem for Boston during his tenure. Today we’re looking at Boston’s housing challenge. WBUR’s Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with […]

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the higher education system is doing only a fair or poor job of preparing graduates for the workforce, according to a new poll. So firmly does this belief appear to be held that 60 percent of those polled said employees with some work experience but no college degrees are likely to […]

The mass slaughters listed in the report caused the deaths of 547 people. Over the same three decades through 2012, that’s less than a tenth of 1 percent of the 559,347 people the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates were murdered in America. “It is a very, very small percentage,” said James Alan Fox, who teaches […]

Rebeca Rosengaus also studies termites and is an associate professor in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University. She told Discovery News: “A variety of insects — both solitary and social — exploit the chemicals of Streptomyces to control parasites and/or pathogens.” Based on the latest study, which she said is “well […]

So how to make sense of an American Psychological Association study in 2009 that there was a “63% increase in the number of young people who rated money as “extremely important” (16% of Boomers compared to 26% of Millennials)”? The same study found that Gen-Y measured lower on the civic engagement scale than did Gen-X (lower than […]

“Yet another mass shooting,” lamented President Obama on Monday before giving a speech marking the fifth anniversary of the financial crisis. Meanwhile, the cable news channels featured wall-to-wall coverage of the D.C. Navy Yard massacre, complete with eyewitness interviews and telestrator-aided analysis of how the events had unfolded. Commentator after commentator pondered the reasons why […]

Many of the candidates are expected to speak about transportation issues at a candidate’s forum on the topic, scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Boston Public Library. Stephanie Pollack, associate director of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy and co-moderator of the forum, said transportation issues have been a prominent part […]

On a recent sunny afternoon at Northeastern University, President Joseph Aoun mingles with incoming freshmen. As a member of the American Council on Education, Aoun is urging higher-education institutions to embrace disruptive technologies such as MOOCs to expand their reach. He says Northeastern is already taking the lead. “We are in Charlotte, we are in […]

Your college degree is important, but it needs to be bolstered with plenty of work experience. According to a new survey by FTI Consulting, on behalf of Northeastern University, 60% of the general public feels someone with no college degree but some work experience would fare better in the workforce than a person who has a […]

At this time, there are few clues to what motivated Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis. Sources tell the Associated Press that investigators have found no manifesto or other writings suggesting a political or religious agenda, and the search for answers continues. Jack Levin, the Brudnick Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Northeastern University, is […]

A majority of Americans believe college and universities are doing a “fair” or “poor” job of preparing recent college graduates for the workforce, a new survey released Tuesday by Northeastern University finds. At the same time, the survey shows nearly two-thirds of Americans say they prefer a well-rounded higher education compared to one that focuses […]

City Opera opens its season Tuesday night with the US premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Anna Nicole at BAM, followed by three more productions in the winter and spring. Patricia Illingworth, editor of Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, questioned City Opera’s managerial history and said it must assure donors that their money will be used responsibly. “Crowdfunding […]