Saturday will mark the one-year anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting that tragically claimed the lives of 20 young children and six staff members. While the local townsfolk opted not to hold any public observances, Gov. Dannel Malloy has asked that churches across the state ring their bells 26 times, once for each victim of the massacre. […]

It’s almost the end of the fall semester, a time when students are inordinately focused on one singular number: their final grade. I fear that even as they construct their final project, their writing e-portfolios, they are so concerned with the grade that they miss out on seeing the best parts: their growth over the […]

There are 2.5 million people in the U.S. with severe speech disorders, and some 40 percent of them use speech devices to express themselves. But those devices offer an extremely limited selection of computerized voices. “We wouldn’t dream of fitting a little girl with the limb of a grown man — so, why then, a […]

Writing in the Harvard Business Review and theWashington Post, two U.S. business professors, Vijay Govindarajan from Dartmouth and Ravi Ramammurti from Northeastern University tell the story of how Indian hospitals deliver better care for much less. The two professors uncovered nine private hospitals in India that provide quality care at a fraction of U.S. prices. For example, […]

“Writing in the Harvard Business Review and the Washington Post, two U.S. business professors, Vijay Govindarajan from Dartmouth and Ravi Ramammurti from Northeastern University tell the story of how Indian hospitals deliver better care for much less,” writes John Mandrola in The Atlantic. “The two professors uncovered nine private hospitals in India that provide quality care at a fraction of U.S. […]

We now know a lot about how the NSA spies on electronic communication. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the NSA is even spying on the online role-playing game World of Warcraft, according to documents from Edward Snowden. But deep electronic surveillance isn’t limited to the nation’s top digital spy agency. This week, Massachusetts […]

Students and colleagues of Northeastern University journalism professor Nicholas Daniloff are used to his hands-on style of teaching – whether it involves dressing up as philosopher Immanuel Kant for a lesson on mass media in a democratic society, or conducting a mock press conference in his ethics class. A former foreign correspondent for United Press […]

Reporting on the release of the monthly jobs numbers last Friday, we spoke with Northeastern University political economist Barry Bluestoneabout what he called generally good news: 200,000 people back to work and the unemployment rate down to 7 percent. But for those people “out of the economy,” in Bluestone’s words, or the long-term unemployed, of whom there are consistently about […]

Written by former MA Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach, an ardent advocate for the creation of the Trust, it describes the broad coalition of folks who came together starting in 2011 to push for the Trust’s creation, and describes the political process involved in setting it up. In connection with the report’s release, RWJF also […]

Imagine you lost your job when the economy was in free fall, and six months later it was still in free fall. You sent out resumés every day, and every day you heard nothing back from companies too scared to hire. Then things finally started to look better. Companies finally started to think about hiring […]

Northeastern University Plans $227M Science, Engineering Research Center BOSTON – Northeastern University hopes to break ground next month on a $225 million science and engineering research building, joining a growing list of Boston-area colleges and universities making major investments in those fields, according to The Boston Globe. NU President Joseph E. Aoun said the facility will […]

The median rent in Massachusetts has climbed to $1,000 a month, according to the study. Hawaii had the highest median rent, $1,300, followed by Washington, D.C., at just below $1,200. And while median rents nationally have risen 7 percent to $861 a month in 2012 from $802 in 2000, median renters’ incomes have fallen from […]