Still, others are waiting for more conclusive research on e-cigarettes before deciding whether to ban them. When Northeastern University formulated its smoke-free policy, it decided not to ban e-cigarettes, said Terry Fulmer, dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences and chair of the university’s smoke-free committee. There is not yet evidence that e-cigarette use […]

This is no coincidence — these things are interconnected. “People who are more religious score worse on varying measures of intelligence…. The three psychologists [(Miron Zuckerman and Jordan Silberman of the University of Rochester and Judith Hall of Northeastern University)] have defined intelligence as the “ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex […]

Dropouts who don’t end up dead often end up in prison. By age 34, dropouts are about 140 times more likely to be in correctional institutions than their peers with college degrees, according to a 2011 study by Northeastern University in Boston. In Illinois, half of the people in prison in 2011 hadn’t finished high school. Those […]

Still, Boston’s program created more affordable housing as construction was booming but most incomes were stagnant or declining. Boston requires developers to make 15% of units affordable or pay at least $200,000 per unit to finance such housing elsewhere in the city. Barry Bluestone, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said […]

“There will be very different experiences in states expanding Medicaid versus not choosing to,” says John Auerbach, director of the Institute on Urban Health Research at Northeastern University who was state public health commissioner between 2007 and 2012. “There will be a bifurcation in the nation. Those with a true combination of shared responsibility and increased access […]

Marking six months since the Boston Marathon bombing, WCVB-TV brought survivors, first responders and civilian heroes together at Northeastern University. Many at Northeastern that night were seeing each other for the first time since April 15. The program tells many previously untold stories, and also those of remarkable recoveries. “Boston Strong Reunited” airs on Oct. […]

Items preserved from the memorial that grew in Copley Square in the days after the Boston Marathon bombings will be displayed Tuesday at a free, public exhibit at Northeastern University, six months after the April 15 attacks. The exhibit will be open from 1 to 8 p.m. at Snell Library, 360 Huntington Ave. It will […]

4. Northeastern University (Boston, MA) Northeastern University is a private, research institution that is proud of having the “world’s largest and most innovative cooperative education program,” offering professional work, research, service, and global learning. Even in the beginning, in 1898, as the Evening School of the YMCA, Northeastern had a cooperative program which possessed these characteristics. Today, […]

Items preserved from the memorial that grew around Copley Square in the days after the Boston Marathon bombings will be displayed at a free, public exhibit at Northeastern University on Tuesday, six months after the April 15 attacks. The exhibit will be open from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Snell Library at 360 Huntington […]

Northeastern University announced this week that it would cover the costs for any of its 100-plus active-duty service members who could not access funding because of the shutdown. National University also said that benefit would be available to its population of nearly 3,900 active-duty service members.

Any recent grad can tell you that finding a job is an uphill battle right now. However, graduating from the right school can help you get on the right track for a successful career. Twenty-seven percent of unemployed adults have been looking for work for more than six months. Even among the employed, the numbers […]

Home prices are increasing, new building permits are on the rise, and foreclosures have dropped, offering the strongest evidence yet of a sustained recovery in the Greater Boston housing market, according to report to be released Thursday. In its most optimistic housing forecast in recent years, the nonprofit Boston Foundation predicts that housing and condominium […]