Gay athletes are used to being singled out. When it’s in a good way, it comes as a pleasant surprise. Northeastern Athletics Director Peter Roby recently made it clear just exactly what the athletics department at one of Boston’s largest universities thinks of them: “If you are a young LGBT athlete looking for a place […]

Governor Deval Patrick blamed political gridlock in Washington and the so-called fiscal cliff as a “direct cause” of the economic slowdown that has tamped state tax collections and created a $500 million budget shortfall. But economists say other factors deserve more blame. A weak national recovery and global economic slowdown have weighed on the Massachusetts […]

Vitamin D and calcium supplements taken together in low doses offered no protection against dementia in a large U.S. study of older women, but scientists are still holding out hope for vitamin D alone.

According to findings based on the responses of 1,300 people in the US, a generational divide is emerging on how online courses are perceived, with 61 per cent of those aged between 18 and 30 saying they believe that a virtual degree provides a similar quality of learning to those offered in traditional settings. The […]

Personal experience can drive scholars to push the boundaries in their chosen field, writes Jon Marcus. After losing a close relative to cancer, Thomas Webster, chair of chemical engineering at Northeastern University, turned his attention to nanomaterials that could be used to lessen cancer cell function without the use of pharmaceutical agents. Aside from illness, […]

Pity the bright young minds considering law school today. By this point, they’ve heard the narrative propagated in voluminous news articles, op-eds, and a growing number of books, all playing variations on the theme that the suckers who enter law school in 2013 will graduate with burdensome debt, few relevant skills, and no job prospects. […]

As the federal government’s role in K-12 education has grown, so has the debate over whether, when and how it should intervene in what has traditionally been a state and local governmental responsibility. And, at what age should the government begin taking an interest in the development of its youngest citizens?

Last week, the Brookings Institution held an event titled “Innovation Imperative: The Future of Higher Education,” and centered around a new study released by Northeastern University that examined both public perceptions of higher education in the United States as well as what young Americans today want out of their college and university experiences.

There is plenty of precedent for entertainers making a successful transition into politics, and in recent years Ashley Judd has been gradually reorienting herself in that direction. A recent graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, she is an intelligent and passionate woman who does not shy away from the issues she believes in. A […]

A variety of vehicles, where and when they need them, and at affordable rates — that’s the bottom-line for car-sharing customers, according to independent research conducted by Northeastern University’s Fleura Bardhi and Suffolk University’s Giana M. Eckhardt: “Access Based Consumption: The Case for Car Sharing.” According to ScienceDaily.com, the researchers discovered that their “study challenges […]

The charred sites began appearing across Southeastern Massachusetts in late September, a growing cluster of at least 16 suspicious fires from Quincy to Sandwich that is feared to be the destructive work of a serial arsonist. The latest fire, ruled an ­arson, happened late Monday night in a vacant outbuilding at the old Raynham dog […]

For Hugh Courtney, dean of Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, his arrival couldn’t have been better timed. Courtney began his tenure as the dean July 1, two months later the business school received a $60 million gift from alumni Richard D’Amore and Alan McKim to rename the business school from the College of Business […]