More educated men, on the other hand, tend to marry educated women, and these couples’ earnings took less of a beating during the downturn, further widening gap between the highest and lowest incomes, said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies. “At the bottom, women’s share is going up largely because […]

Similar undergraduate courses have been sprouting up on campuses nationwide lately, often riding the coattails of popular new entrepreneurship majors. New York University this spring for the first time is offering an undergrad course on the topic. Savannah State University in Georgia plans to introduce such a class next year. Boston’s Northeastern University launched a […]

Criminologist Jack Levin at Northeastern University said Lanza’s isolation and a possible rivalry with other mass killers are characteristics that the Sandy Hook gunman shares with other shooters. “It is not surprising that a school shooter would be inspired to break a record that was left by another school shooter. We’ve seen this happen at […]

“There are probably some dangerous things left off the balance sheet still, and we’ll only find out what in the next crisis,” said David Sherman, an accounting professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “But how many times do we have to go through this to figure it all out?” After failing to agree on common standards […]

Although there are currently said to be more than 14 billion pages on the Internet, a new study shows that navigation between any two of these pages should take you no more than 19 clicks — that’s how interrelated everything is. The study was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and conducted by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University’s Center […]

More educated men, on the other hand, tend to marry educated women, and these couples’ earnings took less of a beating during the downturn, further widening gap between the highest and lowest incomes, said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies. “At the bottom, women’s share is going up largely because […]

Whenever I teach an introductory lesson on “gender” in my first-year international affairs and international relations classes, I find myself prefacing my explanation of “feminism” with the familiar “Feminism is not about man-hating. Feminists are concerned with both men and women,” in order to fend off the usual hostile responses from both male and female […]

But Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said that while the decision to drive Davis home may appear worse in light of the arrest, it may well have failed as a wake-up call. “It doesn’t mean this wouldn’t have happened again,” he said. “Being arrested, even serving a prison sentence, it only works if […]

To demonstrate their technique, Yang-Yu Liu of Northeastern University in Boston and his colleagues looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest. But the method could also be used in social networks […]

Since 1998, the Commonwealth has reduced personal and corporate income tax rates, costing the state $2.5 billion a year — leaving little to pay current bills or deal with $80 billion in past unfunded liabilities, let alone make critical education and transportation investments for our future. Yet with the public demanding reform before revenue, the […]

Northeastern University in Boston has one of the leading coop programs in the country. At NEU, a student can elect to take two coops and graduate in four years, or three coops and finish with a degree in five years. NEU has coops in more than 37 states and 60 countries. Students are assigned a […]

As we continue to look for strategies to jump-start the American economy, here’s one way we can promote innovation and accelerate economic growth over the longer term: give every college student the opportunity to be an entrepreneur. There’s no doubt students would support such an initiative. In a recent national poll commissioned by Northeastern University, […]