The mental and physical benefits of meditation (for the meditator) are increasingly verified by a growing scientific literature that has found an increase in oxygen flow to the brain during meditative periods. Now scientists also believe that meditation can confer benefits on others, even if they do not meditate themselves. In an experiment conducted at […]

“Employers are penny wise and pound foolish to eliminate paid sick leave,” said Lynne Sarikas, director, of the MBA Career Center at Northeastern University. “The reality is that people can get sick and when they do, do you really want them in the office?” Sarikas asked. “It is a much better investment to pay the […]

[VIDEO] Northeastern University partners with Boston Ballet to allow dancers to earn a degree while they dance.

Gaming and education experts gathered recently at the Northeastern University-Seattle campus to kick off an ambitious, long-term project to create just such a game. GAMES – short for Girls Advancing in Math, Engineering and Science – includes participants from Northeastern, the University of Washington’s Center for Game Science, the private DigiPen Institute for game developers, […]

MEDITATION is fast becoming a fashionable tool for improving your mind. With mounting scientific evidence that the practice can enhance creativity, memory and scores on standardized intelligence tests, interest in its practical benefits is growing. A number of “mindfulness” training programs, like that developed by the engineerChade-Meng Tan at Google, and conferences like Wisdom 2.0 for […]

Paul Solman: Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum is featured in our youth joblessness story on the NewsHour Friday. His full picture of the crisis is essential reading, however, and so we share more of my interview with him here. For example, if you are a poor African-American high school teenage dropout, your likelihood of having a job […]

In 1994, John Salvi III shot and killed two abortion clinic workers and wounded five others during attacks on two separate Planned Parenthood clinics in Brookline. In response to those attacks, the Legislature passed a law that created a 6-foot floating buffer zone around patients and an 18-foot buffer around clinic entrances. In 2007, Gov. […]

But there’s another strong source for getting the word out. Terry Fulmer, dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, says that’s “every clinician who comes in contact with an older adult.” She cites more than six million of them, including three million nurses, 600,000 physicians, 300,000 dentists and two million allied health professionals (physical […]

One big way that former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis came to statewide fame – and ultimately the 1988 Democratic nomination for president – was as a late 1960s crusader against the excesses of the billboard industry in the Bay State. Now 79 and teaching at Northeastern University and in California, Dukakis has come back to […]

“United Sound Systems ought to be the linchpin, the centerpiece of a 21st-Century Detroit soundscape,” said Carleton Gholz, 37, who founded the Detroit Sound Conservancy. “It is Exhibit A of Michigan and Detroit’s impact on global sound. It should be alive and cooking. “Preserving it is going to take a lot of money and a […]

The speech revived accusations from coal advocates that Obama is waging a “war on coal.” The industry had sought to popularize that refrain in swing states that produce coal during the 2012 presidential campaign, without much effect. Obama won in Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania, where coal producers targeted much of their efforts. Christopher Bosso, a […]

Ordinarily, a corridor serves to hurry one’s feet along its narrow symmetry and be gone, but in this corridor, just outside the glassed-in precincts of Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, Edward Telleria’s paintings seem to warp space, bidding the viewer to linger in a moment of arrival.