Fewer foreclosures were started and completed in July as the Massachusetts housing market and overall economy continued to slowly improve, according to data released Monday. Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist at Northeastern University, said the newest foreclosure numbers are in line with other recent statistics. “The economy has been fairly slowly but steadily improving. You would […]

A little-known provision of the state’s new health care cost-control law expands the role of physician assistants by casting them in the role of primary care providers.

Harry Partch, the startlingly original 20th-century American composer, is the focus of a rare three-day festival this week, co-presented by New England Conservatory and Northeastern University.

In a Northeastern University classroom, the architect of President Obama’s stimulus plan and a key economic adviser to presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out competing visions on how to repair the nation’s economy — the issue that has come to define the election campaign.

Getting from college to a paycheck is a big worry for young adults; in 2011, only 18% of college grads had job offers by the end of April before graduation, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration is getting a $60 million cash injection – and a new name. In honor of a university-record gift from alums Richard D’Amore and Alan McKim, the school will now be known as the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. It is the first college or school at Northeastern to be named […]

Northeastern University will rename its college of business after two alumni who are donating $60 million, the largest gift in the school’s history.