Northeastern University is asking the Pentagon to reinstate its tuition assistance program for active-duty military members, which has been suspended due to the government shutdown. The university has stepped in to fill the funding gap for the two dozen service members at Northeastern who could have been affected. Still, Michael Armini, Northeastern’s senior vice president […]

Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies and a professor of economics at Northeastern University, said the report should have focused on an important trend among today’s new college graduates: mal-employment. “A larger share of college grads are ending up in jobs that don’t require college degrees,” Mr. Sum said. Those who […]

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said that dual prosecutions are relatively rare and typically involve high-profile cases that spark public outcry, such as in the case of the Washington, D.C., snipers. If Tsarnaev is convicted on the federal charges and sentenced to death or life in prison, a state case would be […]

ELLEN DAOUST graduated from Smith College in 2009 with a degree in government and Spanish and an interest in communications, but no real idea of how to turn that into a career. But after three years in the national service program AmeriCorps, where she worked with video while involved in community and youth development, and eight […]

There are no estimates on how many CNC-certified workers are needed, but an aging manufacturing workforce and wave of baby boomer retirements in coming years is expected to increase demand. A recent Northeastern Universityreport estimates that manufacturers will need to fill 100,000 jobs in Massachusetts alone over the coming decade, with many of those jobs in […]

Several weeks ago, the Federal Reserve decided not to cut back, or taper as the finance mavens say, the billion-dollar bond buying program known as quantitative easing, which is a euphemism for printing money. A gradual reduction of QE had been expected since June, when Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the economy was getting stronger […]

Big data is the new A-bomb Not since Robert Oppenheimer faced down his demons after spearheading the Manhattan Project have scientists been faced with as big an ethical dilemma as big data represents, says Albert-László Barabási,a physicist and network scientist at Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School, in a Politico op-ed this past week. “This summer, while visiting […]

There’s also an important caveat: because the researchers didn’t see any sign of aging doesn’t mean it isn’t occurring. “Proving the non-existence of something is very difficult,” says Eric Stewart, a microbiologist at Northeastern University who was not involved in the study. “Their findings are definitely interesting. And they did try to look at as […]

Bolotsky is a student at Northeastern University and worked as a coop for MassChallenge. He launched and directed Startup Massachusetts, an affiliate of the Startup America Partnership, and founded Startup Summer, an internship program aimed to engage students in the entrepreneurial culture in Massachusetts.  

Tricia Kiefer is a student at Northeastern University who cares about the way she eats. She’s passionate about the importance of consuming honest, healthy, and local food as a way to support a sustainable food system and create social change. “I had a community garden on Symphony Road, and it felt empowering to grow my […]

Abhinav Nangia is the co-founder and CEO of reweave, an organization focused on social entrepreneurship. He attended Northeastern University, and his organization aims to provide resources to grow, strengthen, and connect social enterprises within communities.  

A bitcoin’s value is determined by the people. So long as people buy into the bitcoin market, the value of bitcoins and the market grow. Businesses around the world are offering the virtual option right next to cash or charge, but as Northeastern University Professor of Economics Alan Dyer suggests, it’s not close to universal […]