As a little girl, Marianne Mahoney would tag along to sports arenas to cheer on her older brother’s hockey games. But when she entered Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena last Saturday, she was the one receiving the applause. Mahoney, a 14-year-old Newton resident who has spina bifida, was drafted onto Northeastern’s women’s ice hockey team as […]

Bottom Line: Contrary to popular belief, a higher differential between CEOs’ compensation and that of regular employees does not lead to lower worker productivity or more slacking off on the job. In some cases, employees are actually motivated to work harder by the gap in pay—and to close it by moving swiftly up the corporate ladder. […]

DeDeo is not the only researcher grappling with these challenges. Across every discipline, data sets are getting bigger and more complex, whether one is dealing with medical records, genomic sequencing, neural networks in the brain, astrophysics, historical archives, or social networks. Alessandro Vespignani, a physicist at Northeastern University who specializes in harnessing the power of […]

We all know that iPads (or your favorite tablet of choice) are being used for more than personal reasons. Community tablets and other touchscreen devices have become commonplace, especially in doctor’s offices, where front desk personnel use them to check in patients. And most of us always have our iPhones or smartphones in our hands […]

Now that it has been over a week since the government shutdown, the public is starting to realize just how prominent a role our nation’s leaders play. Not only has the shutdown affected local tourist attractions, university research and the Panda Cam at the National Zoo, it has also delayed the funding for startup companies that receive financial assistance from […]

As the government shutdown dragged into a second week, college leaders and members of Congress urged the U.S. Department of Defense to reinstate its tuition-assistance program, and to let all civilian professors at the service academies return to work. On Sunday, Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University, sent a letter to the defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, […]

When the government shutdown caused a disruption in military tuition assistance, Northeastern University immediately sprung to action to help their students. The more than 100 active service members enrolled at Northeastern, which is located in Boston, were assured right away that the university would help cover the financial assistance needed to keep these students in school […]

A little over a year ago, Rich Ranky was at Northeastern, working on research for his PhD about how to build a force-measuring sensor into a plastic component. Back then, Ranky was injecting conductive slurry into plastic pieces with a caulking gun. Now, his 3D printer, Donatello, prints patented sensors that measure temperature, vibration, heart […]

This morning I stopped at a coffee shop that uses an iPad for a cash register. I ordered a muffin, a coffee, and paid with a credit card. The barrista swiped my card and pivoted the iPad to face me, so that I could sign with my finger on the screen. I was about to […]

National University in San Diego announced Tuesday it would pay the tuition costs for its active-duty military students during October and November while the federal government remains shut down. The shutdown has halted military tuition assistance programs, and each branch of the armed forces remains unable to process applications until Congress passes a spending measure. “We […]

The Pentagon’s decision to suspend tuition assistance because of the government shutdown prompted Northeastern University president Joseph E. Aoun to send a strongly worded letter Sunday to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a plea to reinstate the aid for active-duty service members. The cutoff affects as many as two dozen service members who plan to […]

Turning that into a mobile operation is a prodigious task. The process has to be shrunk by more than a thousandfold and sped up to work in less than 24 hours. And the drugs have to be tested in near-real time to prove they are safe, pure, and potent. In addition to MIT’s Center for […]