There have been claims recently that alleged serious crimes occur frequently on cruise ships and that many of those crimes go unreported. Nothing could be further from the truth. For an industry that enjoys a high repeat customer rate and with some of the largest cruise lines catering to families, any allegation of a serious crime is […]

“There weren’t a lot of Asians in Iowa in the ’60s and ’70s but happily, one of the most popular shows at the time was ‘Kung Fu,’” Kim told graduates of Northeastern University in Boston this year. “The bully kids left us alone, because they thought all Asians knew kung fu.” During his studies, he was torn […]

An unconventional health office that has no walls was set up in the Main South neighborhood of Murray Avenue earlier this week. Project Health Moves, a program of Health Innovations, which uses Northeastern University in Boston’s Health In Motion Van, camped out on the street all day Tuesday The program brought 11 Northeastern nursing students, […]

Born in a Northeastern University conference room in 2012, Stackdriver snagged $5 million in Series A venture funding a year ago from Bain Capital and others, and now with 17 employees (and 3 interns) operates out of a for-real office in Boston’s Downtown Crossing. With many employees recruited out of Northeastern, Boston College and Boston University, there’s […]

The arrest and conviction rates for human trafficking aren’t much better. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) states, “Due to the underground nature of trafficking, the number of victims is unknown.” In a 2012 report to the NIJ on Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Trafficking Cases, Northeastern University and Urban Institute […]

Messrs. Eriksson and Rooth conducted their experiment in Sweden, but they argue their results likely apply to the U.S. as well, which has a relatively similar job market in many respects. But there’s some evidence their conclusions may be optimistic.Northeastern University graduate student Rand Ghayad conducted a similar experiment in the U.S. last year. His research, which hasn’t […]

Beyond boosting a teen’s self-esteem, jobs for young people give them skills that prepare them for the workplace and full-time employment. A study released in July by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University found that having summer jobs made it less likely that low-income teens in Boston would engage in violence. But […]

The first “massive open online course” devoted to philanthropy, launched last month with support from Warren Buffett and his sister, Doris, has drawn some 10,000 students, reports the Los Angeles Times. Participants in the free six-week course will hear video lectures by the Buffetts and other prominent philanthropists and will give away more than $100,000 provided by Ms. […]

Graduation rates among black students at Northeastern University are on the rise, according to a study by The Education Trust. According to the report, in the past decade, the graduation rate among African-American students at Northeastern has grown 27.4 percentage points — from 42.1 percent in 2002 to 69.5 percent in 2011. From 2010 to 2011 alone, […]

“Gender is not a valid part of the conversation, and it’s sort of embarrassing that there is so much focus on it rather than on the substantial differences between Yellen and Summers,” said Jodi Beggs, a lecturer at Northeastern University and blogger behind Economists Do It With Models.  

While many Bostonians welcomed a local owner back to The Globe, they also raised Mr. Henry’s potential for conflicts of interest. Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, said in a phone interview that The Globe still would be responsible for covering Mr. Henry’s Red Sox, city issues related to the Red Sox like […]

Former Globe reporter and now Northeastern University professor Walter Robinson is hopeful Henry can maintain the same excellence of journalism at the Globe that he has brought to his other endeavors, most especially the Red Sox. “My hope, my expectation is that nothing will change, that the paper will continue to do the kind of […]