F-bombs, for the record, fall mostly where you’d expect — in countries that speak English, like the U.S. and Britain (Canada and Australia, for whatever reason, seem to swear a lot less.) More interesting is the timing of the tweets: When I opened Fbomb.co this morning, the map was nearly empty — but as of […]

Martin’s decision to walk away enhances the power of his message, according to Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston. The group uses sports as a way to begin conversations about social justice, and three years ago assisted the NFL with workplace conduct training. “Had Martin simply started […]

Right now, health care payment is linked to services. Providers get paid, whether their outcomes are good or not. But, what if we linked pay to quality and efficiency of care? We’re about to find out. That’s because pay-for-performance programs are expanding across the United States health care system, especially under the implementation of the Affordable […]

You’ve probably been told all throughout high school to get involved and participate in clubs and extracurriculars. For many college admissions officers, seeing that you’re really committed to your activities proves that you’re responsible and you can manage your time well. Now that it’s college application season, it’s time to impress admissions officers with your […]

Designer Kenneth Cole, USAID Assistant Administrator Nancy Lindborg , Afghan Institute of Learning FounderSakena Yacoobi , and UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth Ahmad Alhendawi gave speeches and were honored as role models at the fifth annual Millennium Campus Conference and Global Generation Awards at Northeastern University over the weekend. The conference, which addresses global development, drew about 1,000 student leaders and […]

Whether Boston will become the greenest city in America hinges partly on how long Nathan Gottier and Jess Gillane can go meatless on Mondays. Four months ago, the couple signed a pledge — he to unplug electronics at night and she to cook tofu once a week — as part of an ambitious city-led experiment […]

Northeastern University plans to transform its presence on Columbus Avenue with the construction of a new science and engineering building and the rebuilding of the city-owned William E. Carter Playground. Blueprints of the proposed Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering building (ISEB) include a walkway over the railroad tracks that will increase accessibility to Northeastern’s core campus […]

A Beverly startup working on an improved way to isolate cells for research is planning to do its next experiment more than 200 miles away – straight up. Quad Technologies LLC, a MassChallenge company founded last year, has received a grant worth about $1 million to study the effects of microgravity on the manufacture of […]

It can be a small world, this niche buying of used scholarly books on Amazon. It can also be a sobering one. I am on the lookout for both rare books in my field and copies of my own publications that are being sold way below list price. The former helps me remain current in […]

Boston Community Capital has launched a $100,000 one-year fellowship for a recent law school graduate to work for the nonprofit organization doing public interest law work. The first fellow is Emily Rochon, a 2013 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. At Boston Community Capital, Rochon is working on state and federal public policy issues related to clean energy […]

The project expects to launch by the end of the month. When it does, researchers and the public will be able to comb through widely reprinted texts identified by mining 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from the Library of Congress. While this first stage focuses on texts from before the Civil War, the project eventually […]

Based on the steady coverage of how humanities are losing their popularity, tales of woe about art and psychology graduates making minuscule salaries, and the drum beat to push students towards STEM degrees, you might think the liberal arts is dying in favor of technical majors. The truth is a little more complicated. Ben Schmidt at Northeastern University put together the […]