Just months after the MBTA raised fares, the T faces a $130 million deficit for the next budget year, according to an analysis released Monday by a regional think tank. But that daunting financial gap is eclipsed by a $240 million shortfall to operate the highway system, the study concluded. The budget analysis, conducted by […]

At a school with over 16,000 undergraduates like Northeastern, cross-pollination between departments and organizations isn’t easy to enforce. “Design students keep to design students, business students to business students,” says Ryan Johnson, who’s been working with Bret Siarkowski to develop a solution: VentureCrowd.

An analysis by a regional think tank says the state’s highway system faces a $240 million operating shortfall for the next fiscal year, while the MBTA is facing a $130 million deficit. The budget analysis released Monday by the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University does not include money to address […]

Research confirms that gratitude for past assistance increases the odds that we’ll return the favor and help a benefactor in need.

Op-ed by President Joseph E. Aoun: As President Obama develops his second-term agenda, his administration will no doubt focus on a range of higher-education priorities, including affordability, attainment levels, and career preparation. Yet as important as these issues are, something more fundamental is happening: We’re witnessing the end of higher education as we know it.

As longtime bookies know all too well, I have occasionally been derelict in my duties as your literary cruise director here at #1book140. No, no, you doth protest too much. It’s true, it’s true. And the plain truth is that I can no longer manage our burgeoning book club all on my own. Luckily, the […]

In a city built and defined by its miles of red-brick mills, call this a mill for the 21st – and 22nd – centuries: the new Mass. Green High Performance Computing Center. The $95 million Bigelow Street facility promises to become a “knowledge mill” where researchers from Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts […]

The case of Stephanie Bongiovi makes the argument for broader Good Samaritan laws and the wider use of the overdose antidote naloxone. In the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers call for wider adoption of Good Samaritan laws and federal action to facilitate the distribution of naloxone to treat […]

The state unemployment rate rose for the fourth consecutive month in October as the Massachusetts economy grew too slowly to absorb an influx of workers seeking jobs. Economists have warned in recent months that the Massachusetts economy is slowing in the face of global economic slowdown and uncertainty about US tax and spending policies. Congress […]

President Obama travels to New York Thursday to get a first hand look at the continuing recovery efforts and lingering damage from Hurricane Sandy. Damage and lost economic activity from the storm have been estimated as high as $50 billion. State officials and lawmakers from the affected region say they intend to tap the federal […]

We had the chance to check out a couple of student projects at Northeastern University’s fantastically-named Action Lab during a trip to Boston this week. On our quick tour through the facilities, we were shown a haptic controller being used to simulate the act of carrying a cup full of coffee, in order to monitor […]

Filibuster reform must be via bipartisan cooperation. Majority Leader Harry Reid, frustrated by abuse of the filibuster, has vowed to change the Senate’s rule on the first day of the new Congress. If he chooses to invoke the “constitutional option” — the assertion that the Senate can, on the first day of a session, change […]