At his first news meeting as top editor of the Boston Globe, Martin Baron asked what the paper was doing to chase down the possibility that a Catholic cardinal covered up the case of a priest guilty of sexually abusing up to 80 children. Told that court documents in the case were sealed, Baron said […]

Over 115 countries have participated in Global Entrepreneurship Week since its launch in 2008. Here in the Hub, Northeastern University hasn’t wanted to miss out on the startup-spirited fun, and will be celebrating innovation from Tuesday to Friday, November 13th to 16th, with panels, workshops and a B.I.G. Venture Fair.

PHOTO: Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun, left, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, center, place a wreath at Northeastern’s Veterans Memorial during ceremonies on the school’s campus, in Boston, Nov. 12, 2012. Three new names were added to the memorial Monday that honors students and alumni who died carrying out military duties.

Kristin Jamison never met her father before he lost his life in Vietnam. Marine Cpl. Robert Lewis Curry died in the line of duty after volunteering to take someone else’s patrol. Now 46, Jamison called it humbling Monday to hear U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speak of his sacrifice as Northeastern University added Curry’s […]

AUDIO: Northeastern University professor William Miles has been conducting research in West Africa for more than 30 years. So it came as a surprise to him that he learned only recently of a growing Jewish community in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja. Nigeria is about half Muslim and half Christian. Animism is practiced as well. […]

Americans love reality television, but only if the reality is worth tuning into. So it’s safe to say that most university presidents won’t be getting their own Bravo shows anytime soon. Campus administration isn’t quite as adventurous as the life of Honey Boo Boo. Still, that hasn’t stopped Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern University, […]

As anyone following the 2012 election knows, Massachusetts has served as a model for the expansion of health care coverage nationally. The Bay State’s 2006 universal health care law (sometimes called “Romneycare”) was famously the prototype for the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”). Now, Massachusetts could become the standard bearer for how to get costs […]

What: Spencer Day at The Fenway Center at Northeastern University When: Saturday, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. More: Spencer Day is a singer/pianist who came from the tradition of jazz piano clubs and the America Songbook, MGM musicals and jazz standards. He’s opened for Rufus Wainright and appeared at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival and is […]

Texas leads the nation in unsolved serial highway homicides. Could interstate cooperation deliver closure? The picture shown to the jurors was enough to haunt them for a lifetime: a young girl with jet-black hair and pale skin, standing amid the tumbledown ruins of a wooden barn in rural Illinois. She wears a dress that reaches […]

For many blacks, reelection provides irrefutable evidence that presidency was hardly a historical fluke. Obama’s victory meant a great deal to veterans of the civil rights movement. “I am completely exhilarated,” said Margaret Burnham, a law professor at Northeastern University. “This victory gives us an opportunity to fulfill the promises of democracy all across the […]

Gossip. It is everywhere. Every week tens of millions of North Americans read gossip magazines, scan celebrity blogs and websites, and follow Twitter feeds that buzz incessantly with both rumours—and truth. Meanwhile office gossip about who got a raise, who is underperforming, and who is getting hired or fired, tirelessly fills our desires for workplace […]

MAPPING American election campaign contributions has developed into an art form. Usually the information is presented by location and amount. But researchers at Northeastern University’s LazerLAB have produced an animated infographic that shows it by time as well.