As many of his friends struggled to find jobs in 2009, Rand Ghayad, a PhD candidate in economics at Northeastern University, decided to search for answers to explain why smart, educated, and experienced people remained out of work for so long, despite hundreds of thousands of job vacancies. What he found after more than four […]

Yesterday’s Supreme Court’s 6-2 decision in US Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International invalidated the “anti-prostitution pledge.” Advanced by religious and other anti-human-trafficking groups, this provision was integrated in the Leadership Act–the law that authorized the Bush Era’s flagship PEPFAR initiative to fight HIV/AIDS. At issue in this case was the Act’s condition […]

Northeastern University is expanding the curriculum at its Charlotte campus by adding a doctorate in education. The program — Northeastern’s third doctoral degree here — recently was approved by the UNC Board of Governors. Boston-based Northeastern is the only university based outside North Carolina to win approval to offer doctoral degrees, says Cheryl Richards, chief executive and […]

The Fed has been buying $85 million in bonds each month, and said it will continue to do so until the outlook for the job market improves substantially. When the Fed does pull back on the bond-buying program, Bernanke said it will be like a driver taking a foot off the gas, rather than slamming […]

But shuttering the Callahan Tunnel could hardly come at a worse time: It will overlap the Longfellow Bridge construction project, set to start next month, which will halt northbound traffic, as well as the closing of the Government Center MBTA station, scheduled for the fall, which will hamper commuters who want to take the Blue Line […]

“A serial killer typically uses sex as a vehicle for tempting to gain a sense of power and dominance and control,” said Jack Levin, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston and a co-author of the 2008 book, “Extreme Killing.” “In most cases, it includes torture,” he said. “Martorano was right in court when he […]

“If we could have access to real-world scale, actual test beds, we could do a lot better job preparing new technologies for market cheaper and faster,” Per Suneby, president of waste-to-energy firm BioConversion Solutions LLC and one of the executives behind the proposal, said in an interview Tuesday. The idea for the network was developed […]

Boston-based Northeastern University is now offering a third doctoral degree program through its Charlotte campus. The UNC Board of Governors approved a doctoral degree in education last week, making it the school’s third doctoral degree. The first two — in nursing and physical therapy — were approved in May. They were the first to be […]

Dan Kennedy was for many years one of the most artful practitioners of alternative journalism, his work sparkling on the pages of the late and much lamented Boston Phoenix. Paul Bass is one of the emerging heroes of a sort of “new journalism,’’ not the gonzo form practiced by Hunter Thompson and Tom Wolfe — […]

Gov. Deval Patrick announced the grant winners at the Symposium on Water Innovation in Massachusetts (SWIM) on Wednesday. The grants are being awarded to a Florida company, a local startup and a Northeastern Unviersity researcher in hopes to create jobs and positition the Bay State as a hub for investments in advanced water technology, accoriding to Energy […]

Youth employment across Massachusetts, however, is at a historic low. A study released by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University said that only 27 percent of people aged 16 to 19 were employed in 2012, a 54 percent decrease from 1999. Employment is at its lowest point since World War II.  

In explaining NextIT’s work, Morrison repeatedly cited research conducted by Northeastern University’s Timothy Bickmore, who argues that so-called relational agents “can play a major role in the chronic disease management process by providing patients not only with an additional source of information about their disease, treatment regimen and adherence level, but with motivational support for taking care […]