Massachusetts has regained all the jobs lost in the last recession after a steady recovery that has progressed faster than the nation’s. The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported Thursday that employment in Massachusetts reached 3.3 million jobs, about 14,000 more than in April 2008, when employment peaked before the recession. “That is a significant […]

As medical technology continues to advance, the lowly bandage continually gets left behind. Sure, it was exciting when Clear Strips bandages were introduced in 1957. And the Liquid Bandage, unveiled in 2002, is nothing to sniff at. But where are our sensor-filled Band-Aids? They’re coming soon, thanks in part to work being done by Ed Goluch, […]

Instead of looking at the high octane law firms with well-known names — which are in the process of re-examining their staffs — many graduates will have to think corporate and even small time, said Jeremy Paul, dean of Northeastern University School of Law. “The plum legal jobs in the future will be in big […]

The Bloomberg Businessweek rankingsare based on a combination of student satisfaction, post-graduation outcomes, and academic quality. Roughly 86,000 graduating seniors at more than 140 universities receive a 50-question survey focused on a range of topics. … Bentley University ranked 20th, up from 29th last year, while Northeastern Universityranked 25th, up from 27th in 2012.

The following interview is with Peter Stokes, executive director of postsecondary innovation at Northeastern University. During our last interview, Stokes mentioned that the higher education industry has yet to see a truly disruptive innovation. In this interview, Stokes explains the difference between disruptive and other innovations in a little more detail, and shares his thoughts on […]

Halfway through the state’s $1 billion experiment with investing in the state’s life-sciences industry, a report due out next week will examine the effectiveness of a 2008 law in attracting investment and creating jobs. Gov. Deval Patrick, who signed the 10-year law in 2008, is scheduled to be on hand Tuesday for the Boston Foundation’s […]

What propels exercises such as Golden Eagle Snatches Kid to circulate at such speed? Ryan Cordell, a lecturer at Northeastern University specializing in 19th-century periodical literature, analyses how newspapers and other mass media of the time disseminated news, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the criteria for what makes a story spread haven’t changed much. “It needs to […]

It will always be extremely important to be able to communicate with diverse audiences, says Young. Not only must CSOs make complex security issues understandable to the enterprise at large, they must also make it clear how important security risk, particularly digital risk management, is to the executive suite’s agenda. David Luzzi, executive director of […]

Gun store owners and manufacturers didn’t like the implications when in 1995, Glenn L. Pierce of Northeastern University, using Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) data, found that only one percent of gun dealers were responsible for the sale of the majority of the guns seized at crime scenes, 57 percent. They said […]

While incidents like the one at UCF – particularly in the context of other recent shootings – can lead to talk of an epidemic, it’s also important to keep the threat level in perspective, says Jack Levin, a criminology professor at Northeastern University who has done research on mass killers. “The college campus is still the safest […]

Northeastern University has appointed Deloris Pettis to the newly created position of vice pres­i­dent of enter­prise risk management. In her new role, Pettis will use existing resources to develop an enterprise-wide risk reporting and monitoring system. Pettis has experience in trans­forming enterprise-wide risk man­age­ment infra­struc­tures in both the busi­ness and higher edu­ca­tion sectors. Pettis spent […]

The university is in its fourth year of hosting Idea, a student-led venture accelerator that provides resources to students and alumni looking to found startups. In 2009 the school was seeking new ways to boost entrepreneurial activity on campus when six seniors proposed the concept for Idea. The group received funding from the university and […]