Still, Boston’s program created more affordable housing as construction was booming but most incomes were stagnant or declining. Boston requires developers to make 15% of units affordable or pay at least $200,000 per unit to finance such housing elsewhere in the city. Barry Bluestone, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said […]

“There will be very different experiences in states expanding Medicaid versus not choosing to,” says John Auerbach, director of the Institute on Urban Health Research at Northeastern University who was state public health commissioner between 2007 and 2012. “There will be a bifurcation in the nation. Those with a true combination of shared responsibility and increased access […]

Marking six months since the Boston Marathon bombing, WCVB-TV brought survivors, first responders and civilian heroes together at Northeastern University. Many at Northeastern that night were seeing each other for the first time since April 15. The program tells many previously untold stories, and also those of remarkable recoveries. “Boston Strong Reunited” airs on Oct. […]

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 […]