Indeed, data from Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies show that young adults with degrees in engineering, math, and computer science are far more likely to get professional jobs that require college degrees than those with other majors. About 80 percent of such “technical” degree holders have college-level professional jobs, compared to just 59 […]

Massachusetts economy grew at a solid pace in the first three months of 2013, with jobs, wages and salaries on the rise, according to a new report released Friday by the University of Massachusetts and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The state economy expanded an annual rate of 3.9 percent between January and March, up from […]

Meg Heckman, a journalism graduate student at Northeastern University, created a short video on the school’s slacklining club. Slacklining is similar to tightrope walking, with participants trying to walk across a stretchy rope.  

Northeastern University will more than double the number of degree programs it offers in Charlotte. The Boston university’s satellite campus will expand its curriculum here to 15 master’s degrees and add its first two doctoral programs. Classes for those programs will start this fall, says Cheryl Richards, chief executive officer and regional dean. That’s up from eight […]

Laurie Edwards, lecturer in health and science writing at Northeastern University and author of In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America, contributed this article to LiveScience’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. After a lifetime of infections, hospitalizations and surgeries, a set of lab results changed everything for me. When I was […]

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Justin Craig, PhD, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Associate Editor, Family Business Review, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University talks about recent academic research on family businesses. Family businesses weathered financial crisis better than non-family businesses Most recently, international research from the Harvard Business Review, for instance, has emerged that demonstrates how businesses with family ownership […]

As part of the Boston community, we share the sadness of last week’s Boston Marathon bombings. Thanks to excellent police work and public cooperation, Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev were identified as the perpetrators and are reportedly unaffiliated with any larger terrorist network. But going forward, how can law enforcement increase its ability to identify would-be terrorists operating […]

Something happens when you’ve been out of work for half a year. Employers ignore you completely. That was the conclusion of a new field study by Rand Ghayad, a visiting scholar at the Boston Fed and a PhD candidate at Northeastern University, that showed that resumes with otherwise identical qualifications get called back far less if […]

Many classmates, friends, and family members of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have expressed shock in the accusations against the Chechen-born brothers who are suspected to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing. This is especially true in the case of Dzhokhar, who appeared to be well integrated in American culture compared to his older brother, […]

In an effort to raise awareness of this issue, a group of Northeastern University students held an event on April 17 titled “Journalism & Juvenile Justice: How Your Sentences Affect Theirs,” a panel discussion that explored the role the media plays in juvenile sentencing reform. It featured several prominent speakers, including former governor Michael Dukakis; […]

The pending legal case surrounding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his reportedly copped-to involvement in the Marathon Monday bombings is almost sure to incite a visceral reaction from the public one way or another. It’s simply not an event to be consumed idly. There have been shouts to charge the 19-year-old as an enemy combatant, shouts since […]