Wary of the cuts on the horizon, agencies appear to already be slowing funding. On campus, researchers are seeing a slowdown in federal grant-making and disbursement, said Tim Leshan, vice president for government relations at Northeastern University and president of the Science Coalition, an association of research universities advocating for federal scientific research. The Institute […]

IN HIS Jan. 24 Op-ed column “Invest, but don’t play Robin Hood,” Edward Glaeser criticizes Governor Patrick’s tax proposal as an inappropriate effort to use the state tax system for redistributive purposes. Reasonable people can debate whether state taxes are an appropriate means of pursuing redistribution of wealth. But labeling Patrick’s proposal as redistribution flies […]

In the legal academy, there has been discussion about how to make training less costly and more relevant, with special emphasis on the last year of law school. A number of schools, including elite ones like Stanford, have increased their attention to clinics, where students get hands-on training. Northeastern Law School in Boston, which has […]

Kim Lewis, director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, said the study raised some interesting questions for further research. “It is an enormous problem indeed. Where exactly those pathogens hide within the body is not exactly clear, and this study tries to address this question,” Lewis said.

“Should we be asking these questions? We absolutely should be,” said Dan Lebowitz, the executive director of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, which examines the role of sports to promote healthy development and social responsibility. The people performing these superhuman feats “really are just human,” he said. “How do we maintain safety in that […]

Historically, corporations have tended to view global climate change and greenhouse gas emissions as environmental issues that don’t affect their bottom line, and therefore don’t affect how they do business. That’s changing as business leaders become increasingly aware of the ways in which climate change threatens the profitability and value of their companies — and […]

After graduating from Duke University in North Carolina, Cowan earned a law degree from Northeastern University in Massachusetts. He remained in Boston after law school. There, he emerged as a popular mentor for young black professionals and was often tapped to help diversify the city’s institutions (he once helped Mitt Romney identify lawyers of color […]

Mr. Cowan, a 43-year-old North Carolina native and Duke University graduate, came to Boston to attend Northeastern University School of Law and stayed. He stepped down as Mr. Patrick’s chief of staff two months ago, saying he planned to return to the private sector. He said he agreed to the governor’s request that he take […]

Watching and waiting — and strategizing — can be a difficult choice to make given the “herd mentality” that has developed around MOOCS, according to Peter Stokes, executive director of postsecondary innovation in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. Still, he thinks there’s value in the approach. “It’s certainly reasonable for an institution […]

The USDA defines a “food desert” as any location without a grocery store within a one-mile radius. When Josh Trautwein goes to work at the MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center, he sees the effects of Boston’s food deserts firsthand. “People are resigned to shopping at corner stores, which are usually more expensive and have a narrower […]

The decision meant disappointment for some projects, including FuturICT, which had aimed at creating “a planetary scale computer” for helping predict events like natural disasters. Some of the reasoning used to reject FuturICT was “quite crazy,” and the project’s leaders should be “pretty shocked,” Alex Vespignani, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who is […]

Even the top schools acknowledge that much of the more formulaic learning can be done online, often before the campus programme begins. But surely this is an argument for cutting the length of the on-campus programme? Even if universities still have their heads in the sand, prospective students do not. According to a national opinion […]