Northeastern University has created a new department of bioengineering within its College of Engineering school, the Boston-based university announced this week. The new department will fold in theEngineering School’s existing doctoral program in bioengineering and will develop new bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in the field. Students also will be eligible for co-op opportunities. The department will […]

Most of us lock our doors every night. We stash our valuables out of sight and keep our savings in a bank. But in this increasingly digital world, it’s getting harder to protect the things we value most, including our privacy. In the past few weeks alone, Target customers became the target of a credit […]

Northeastern University is creating a new bioengineering department, campus officials announced. The news comes less than a month after the university received final approval from city officials to build a new $225 million research building dedicated to science and engineering studies, fields that Boston-area higher education institutions have made major investments in recently. The new department will […]

Northeastern University journalism professor and renowned media critic Dan Kennedy commented on Mayer’s departure in a post on his blog, Media Nation. Kennedy raised the question of whether, looking forward, Globe editor Brian McGrory would remain with the paper: “Owners hire publishers; publishers hire editors. And Mayer’s successor may want to put his or her mark on […]

Also on the program are works by two Boston composers, Hubert Ho and Chao-Jan Chang. Ho, who teaches at Northeastern University, said by e-mail that he first met the members of Konvergence during a Fulbright scholarship in Prague several years ago. Rounding out the bill is a pair of modern classics: Helmut Lachenmann’s “Dal Niente” […]

Since New Year’s Eve at least a half dozen pedestrians have been hit and killed by vehicles in the greater Bay Area. The Dutch have already dealt with this conundrum over the last few decades with changes that have been praised by transportation planners. KCBS interviewed an expert on the issue who said we could […]

Ms. Stotsky thinks that all high-school students should be required to take trigonometry and precalculus to be ready for the brave new world of science, technology, engineering and math. Even if the STEM crisis were real, this is not a good idea. Of course, advanced math classes should be offered, but there is no reason […]

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth,” writes Ishmael in Herman Melville classic novel Moby Dick, “I take myself to sea.” Ishmael was not the only one. For hundreds of years, ships have cut the ocean’s salty waves, ferrying Ishmaels by the million between coasts and continents. As this striking data viz shows, their […]

Hurston, best known for her seminal novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” was born in Florida on Jan. 7, 1891, but she moved to New York in 1925 with only $1.50 to her name. She soon became friends with Langston Hughes and Dorothy West. Carla Kaplan, a professor of American Literature at Northeastern University and […]

Under normal circumstances, an up-and-coming academic might be pleased to have his work cited by a leading politician in the heat of a major policy debate. Not so Rand Ghayad, who will shortly be receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Northeastern University, and whose research on unemployment was cited admiringly by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in a recent essay about […]

Last week, we looked at which Biglaw firms were the highest rated in 2013 by their own lawyers, according to the ATL Insider Survey. As we noted, we’ve amassed in excess of 15,500 responses to our survey from practicing lawyers and law students. The information from our survey provides our readers with a deep resource for comparing and […]

In a few weeks, some of the finest athletes in the world will gather for the quadrennial Winter Olympic festival in Sochi, Russia. The last time the Olympics were held in Russia, it was still the Soviet Union, and the Americans, among other nations, did not send a team to compete. President Jimmy Carter decided […]