The jobs report released Thursday marked an end to the slow and moderate economic growth of 2012, as the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development announced that the unemployment rate rose to to 6.7 percent in December. That’s up from 6.6 percent in November , but two-tenths of a percentage point below the […]

Still, safeguards for lithium-ion batteries have progressed to the point that a fire on an airplane should never have happened, said Sanjeev Mukerjee, a chemistry professor at Northeastern University and an expert on batteries. “If a battery of that size catches fire, then a whole bunch of mechanisms didn’t work,” Mr. Mukerjee said. “Whoever is […]

The New York standard started as an idea of law professor Michael Meltsner and two of his students at Columbia University. The law they created said that businesses could only deny someone a job due to their past convictions or arrests after considering eight factors, including the seriousness of the crime, how long ago it […]

Think college campuses are just about the classrooms? Think again. We visited some of Boston’s best campus gyms, and what we found—juice bars, lazy rivers, climbing walls, and kayak rentals—will make wish you could have stayed in college forever. Northeastern University Marino Center If you’ve ever driven down Huntington Avenue, you’ve seen the stunning glass […]

“There’s an increase of about 1 percent in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment. So it’s around 6 percent rather than 5 percent,” says William Dickens, professor of economics and social policy at Northeastern University and former senior economist for Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. This “non-accelerating rate” is known by economists as the […]

Still, waste and ineptitude are not habits easily broken. “Both the T and the Highway Department are better-managed than they’ve been in the past, but they’re not good enough,” says transportation expert Stephanie Pollack, associate director at the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “There should be no blank checks.”

t is no crime to have an imaginary friend. Specifically, in the bizarre case of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o and the woman who didn’t exist, unless it can be established that someone was guilty of intentional fraud, resulting in a financial impact on someone, no legal ramifications exist. “I was talking to my wife […]

By contrast, banning ammunition magazines of more than 10 rounds, as Mr. Obama has proposed, would have a greater impact on so-called mass shootings, where the killing efficiency of a lone gunman would be reduced, according to James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who studies crime.

Or connect with local resources. Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston is among six local nursing schools that participate in the Northeast Region VA Nursing Alliance (NERVANA), developed by two nearby hospitals. It hopes to increase recruitment and retention of nurses and clinical faculty and encourage practicing nurses to advance their […]

A stream of hungry students poured into the dining hall in Northeastern University’s Inter­national Village, surveying the all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of everything from burgers to wild mushroom risotto to “foods made without gluten ingredients.” Some loaded their plates with gluten-free creamed green beans because they have doctor’s orders to avoid the gluten protein in wheat, barley, […]

With increasing reports of extreme weather and headlines about 2012 being the warmest year on record, climate change can no longer be ignored. This spring Cognoscenti teams up with the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs at Northeastern University to bring you a series we’re calling Climate Change. Challenges. Solutions. Each week we will […]

But background checks would not have stopped most school shootings, in which the gunmen took legally obtained weapons from parents with spotless backgrounds, says Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston. Many gunmen have a clean criminal history – they are just having a really bad day, he says. […]