Four semesters and nearly $60,000 in funding later, six startups are ready to launch out of Northeastern’s student-run venture accelerator IDEA and into Boston’s startup scene.

Though it would have seemed unthinkable before last week, the situation at Pennsylvania State University, where a respected former assistant football coach used his connections to the program to draw in the young boys whom he later raped on campus property, was even worse than anyone imagined. Worse because not only did administrators and coaches […]

The Obama administration has failed to meet a legal deadline for scanning all shipping containers for radioactive material before they reach the United States, a requirement aimed at strengthening maritime security and preventing terrorists from smuggling a nuclear device into any of the nation’s 300 sea and river ports. Stephen Flynn, a terrorism expert at […]

Freeh’s report said that Paterno and other officials hushed up allegations against Sandusky for fear of bad publicity and, by implication, all that bad publicity could bring – a loss of power, prestige, fame and money. “People have attached a $50-million price tag on Penn State football,” said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Sport In […]

ALL the major religions place great importance on compassion. Whether it’s the parable of the good Samaritan in Christianity, Judaism’s “13 attributes of compassion” or the Buddha’s statement that “loving kindness and compassion is all of our practice,” empathy with the suffering of others is seen as a special virtue that has the power to […]

Xavier Xicay experienced firsthand how fragmented the student workflow is while studying graphic design at Northeastern. Having to bounce around from his textbook to his notes and back to the professor’s powerpoint was frustrating. So frustrating, he decided to address the issue head on, drafting mockups and networking prototypes he could use to lure someone […]

Beth Myers, an employment lawyer with Boston-based Rodgers, Powers & Schwartz LLP, has accomplished what many young lawyers have found to be a nearly impossible accomplishment in this job market: she secured a full-time job in her chosen practice area. These days, so much is written about how dismal the legal job market is, but […]

Massachusetts added nearly 40,000 jobs in 2011, four times the revised employment estimates reported earlier this year by federal officials, according to an analysis of newly released data by the University of Massachusetts. The new data, a census of Massachusetts employers compiled by the US Labor Department, offers the most complete and reliable snapshot of […]