Malden received help from the Healthcare Systems Engineering Extension Center, led by James Benneyan, Ph.D., an industrial engineer at Northeastern University who received a Health Care Innovation Award grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to bring technical expertise in systems engineering and operations management to health care. Benneyan hopes “to demonstrate how engineers […]

“Nearly 20 years ago, we had half a dozen multiple-victim school shootings by students in America … and the same questions were being asked then: What’s the matter with kids today?” says James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “Nothing’s different about kids,” he says, though 50 years ago, bullied kids […]

Fixes are planned for Internet anonymity tool Tor after researchers showed that national intelligence agencies could plausibly unmask users. By Tom Simonite on October 25, 2013 When reports published earlier this month revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency could reverse the protections of Internet anonymity tool Tor, many activists and others who rely on the tool had […]

Four years after the last recession ended, there are still about 4 million Americans who have been unemployed more than six months and are actively looking for work, said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies. That number, Sum added, does not include millions more frustrated job seekers who have given […]

Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia will be speaking at 5 p.m. Monday in a “fireside chat” withNortheastern Unversity President Joseph E. Aoun, to be held at Northeastern’s Raytheon Amphitheater as part of the university’s Profiles in Innovation Series. Aereo, which is headquartered in New York but has a major office in Boston, is a subscription-based website that allows users […]

Some new devices do something so beautifully and seamlessly that they seem like magic. I remember, for instance, the first time I used the touchscreen on an iPhone. Suddenly, the whole touchscreen concept—which had until that time seemed awkward and unnecessary—suddenly made sense. Google’s new ChromeCast is such a device. It’s an incredibly simple solution to the […]

In some careers, retirement comes early. Shelby Elsbree, a 22-year-old dancer, tells us how a partnership between Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies and the Boston Ballet is preparing her for life after dance.

A study conducted in May by Georgetown University found graduates with a bachelor’s degree between the ages of 22 and 26 face unemployment rates as high as 14.7 percent. On top of that, college graduates under the age of 25 have a “mal-employment” rate of 36 percent, according to Andrew Sun, director of the Center for Labor […]

Reproductive biologists have been working for decades to solve one of the great mysteries of human fertility: why do women produce all the eggs they will ever have while still in the womb, only to have most of those eggs die off before birth, and many more before the woman reaches puberty? Jonathan Tilly, chair […]

Procuring the resources needed to make products is a pillar of any business. How much easier would it be if you could simply find them washed up on a beach? Three American entrepreneurs operating in Chile are, apparently, doing just that. With their fledgling business, Bureo Skateboards, Ben R. Kneppers, David M. Stover and Kevin J. […]

Researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University, together with colleagues from France and Australia, ran a study to try to check that copyright-infringement status of a ton of files that had been Megauploaded shortly before the takedown. Examining metadata from links to content that had been hosted on Megaupload, the researchers took representative samples of 1,000 files […]

“The DHS was really invisible after the Boston terror bombings,” Stephen Flynn, director of the Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University. “This was the first terror attack like this since 9/11 and nobody thought to ask – where’s homeland security?” “Obviously he’s got a strong background in weighty issues of the war […]