For Marie Claire’s third annual Women on Top Awards, we combed the country for the up-and-comers leading thought-revolutions, creating businesses, and making names for themselves in fields from the military to the arts. None is a day over 40, with a couple of notable exceptions: We’ve added a “Super Woman” category to celebrate women of […]

Until about three weeks ago, most Americans had never seen Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in a room together. That’s what made the prospect of their debates so exciting: After months of posturing, spinning, and sniping from afar, the two rivals would finally go toe-to-toe, stepping into the ring without a protective shield of advisers.

When he visited Seattle last week, the president of Northeastern University took pains to explain why the Northwest’s largest city — some 2,500 miles and three times zones away — was a logical site for a private research institution in Boston to open a branch campus.

Cynthia Baron directs the Master of Professional Studies in Digital Media program at Northeastern University. Like most graduate degrees of this kind, the Northeastern program only emerged in the past few years. She sat down with Metro to discuss this budding field of study.

Is the humidity in the hall just right? Are there enough hotel rooms nearby to hold the hordes of campaign staffers and journalists? Will the candidates’ dressing rooms be big enough? Landing a presidential debate requires painstaking adherence to a lengthy checklist, not to mention millions of dollars. Colleges and universities big and small have […]

In one of his most celebrated dissents, Justice Louis D. Brandeis addressed an issue not likely to come before the U.S. Supreme Court again: whether the state of Oklahoma could regulate distributors of ice as a public utility.

Cyberspace is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial institutions and developing the ability to strike U.S. power grids and government systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday. William Robertson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston who testified on cyber security legislation in Congress earlier […]

In the latest example of how print media has had to adapt to changing reading habits, Newsweek, the venerable US weekly current affairs magazine, will publish its final print edition on December 31 and move to an all-digital format early next year, ending an 80-year run as a print magazine and taking the esteemed publication […]

The Massachusetts jobless rate rose for the third straight month in September to 6.5 percent — up from 6.3 percent in August — even as a separate survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated the Bay State added 5,100 jobs.

Alaa Alhomaizi, a senior at Northeastern University, has traveled around her home country with her twin sister, Dalal, to raise awareness and promote treatment.

Within the last year alone, Northeastern’s student-run venture accelerator IDEA has grown from 56 to 107 companies. Last night, 40 of those companies tabled at Northeastern’s Entrepreneurship Expo (NEXPO), reflecting what faculty advisor Dan Gregory describes as “the most advanced and energetic of our ventures.”

Violent crimes unexpectedly jumped 18 percent last year, the first rise in nearly 20 years, and property crimes rose for first time in a decade. But academic experts said the new government data fall short of signaling a reversal of the long decline in crime. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Wednesday that the […]