This is the story of a student, a mentor, a school, and a startup. Together they highlight the ways in which recruiting and talent development at New England companies have changed over the past decade. Bart Flaherty was an undergrad at Northeastern University. His major was communication studies, but halfway through he started taking computer […]

Typewriters that belonged to notable 20th century people are on display in a Northeastern University gallery. Machines once owned by Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, John Lennon, Jack Kevorkian, and ‘‘Unabomber’’ Theodore Kaczynski are among those in the exhibit. The collection is owned by Steve Soboroff, a California businessman whose daughter is a Northeastern undergraduate. It […]

Typewriters that belonged to some of the most famous — and infamous — names of the 20th century are on display in a Northeastern University gallery. Machines once owned by Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, John Lennon, Jack Kevorkian and “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski are among those in the exhibit. The collection is owned by Steve Soboroff, […]

Dan Kennedy, a media analyst and assistant professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, said the Cape Cod Times and Standard-Times have good local reputations. “My impression is the Dow Jones local papers are staffed a little bit more fully than GateHouse papers,” Kennedy said. “If I was a reader of one of the (purchased) […]

  “Millions of Americans, especially men, have antisocial personality disorders and they don’t kill anyone,” Dr. Jack Levin, a Criminologist and Co-Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern University told the Daily News. “They may lie, physiologically they may cheat … but killing is just not their cup of tea.” Who fits the profile? […]

The argument that law school should be two years instead of three isn’t new. But the idea got renewed prominence last month, when President Obama said this on a stop at Binghamton University in New York during his college affordability bus tour: “Law schools would probably be wise to think about being two years instead […]

More than 950,000 kids are going back to public schools across the Commonwealth. The majority of them will be in school districts that rank among the best in the nation and they will benefit from another year of quality education from some of the most dedicated teachers anywhere. For others, however, particularly in low income […]

But to the literary scholar Carla Kaplan, Josephine — who committed suicide in 1969 — deserves to be remembered not just as the stage mother from hell she is usually depicted as, but as a bold if sometimes awkward pioneer at the frontiers of American thinking about racial identity. “She pushed the boundaries of the […]

Tuatara is working with McGraw Hill Higher Education, and is in the “final stages” of signing another major U.S. publisher, he said. The ultimate mission, according to a news release, is to help users “get the most from the vast amounts of information becoming available every day” and “revolutionize the digital learning experience.” Xicay says […]

But change may be coming. As of June, there’s a regular Boston Legal Innovation Meetup , founded by Ziegler and geared to attorneys, academics, and entrepreneurs. In May, Suffolk University Law School created a new Institute on Law Practice Technology & Innovation, intended to study how technology is changing the profession, and last month Northeastern University unveiled a […]

“Yeah, you know it really isn’t the coverage of the Red Sox as a baseball team,” said Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern university and a frequent media commentator. “I’m not worried that suddenly trades the Red Sox make will be evaluated in a more positive light, but the Red Sox are […]

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the conventional wisdom is that financial markets need to be more tightly regulated. That is certainly true, but the problem is as much about who is doing the regulating as it is about the regulations themselves. The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act represents […]