A little over a year ago, Rich Ranky was at Northeastern, working on research for his PhD about how to build a force-measuring sensor into a plastic component. Back then, Ranky was injecting conductive slurry into plastic pieces with a caulking gun. Now, his 3D printer, Donatello, prints patented sensors that measure temperature, vibration, heart […]

This morning I stopped at a coffee shop that uses an iPad for a cash register. I ordered a muffin, a coffee, and paid with a credit card. The barrista swiped my card and pivoted the iPad to face me, so that I could sign with my finger on the screen. I was about to […]

National University in San Diego announced Tuesday it would pay the tuition costs for its active-duty military students during October and November while the federal government remains shut down. The shutdown has halted military tuition assistance programs, and each branch of the armed forces remains unable to process applications until Congress passes a spending measure. “We […]

The Pentagon’s decision to suspend tuition assistance because of the government shutdown prompted Northeastern University president Joseph E. Aoun to send a strongly worded letter Sunday to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a plea to reinstate the aid for active-duty service members. The cutoff affects as many as two dozen service members who plan to […]

Turning that into a mobile operation is a prodigious task. The process has to be shrunk by more than a thousandfold and sped up to work in less than 24 hours. And the drugs have to be tested in near-real time to prove they are safe, pure, and potent. In addition to MIT’s Center for […]

It is a stressful time for Northeastern University students who are also active-duty service members. The Pentagon has suspended tuition assistance funding as a result of the government shutdown. There’s a lot of uncertainty,” said Lt. Col. Blaise Gallahue, who leads Northeastern’s ROTC program. “We are just hoping those decisions get made soon and quickly […]

It’s one more example of spreading fallout from the partial federal government shutdown: Some two dozen active-duty U.S. military personnel beginning classes next week at Northeastern University were going to be forced to withdraw from NU’s College of Professional Studies because their Pentagon tuition aid has been shut down. But Monday, Northeastern president Joseph Aoun […]

In a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, a team from Northeastern University took a shot at creating a new tool for predicting whether a paper will be a major breakthrough. In the new work, Albert-László Barabási, a physicist who works in the emerging field of analyzing networks, found that with four to five years […]

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 […]