Like Robert Bergman, Dr. Carl Zangerl of Northeastern University in Boston, MA also has over 20 years experience in the business world and is responsible for curriculum development at his institution. As Academic Director of the Master’s in Corporate and Organizational Communication degree at the College of Professional Studies, part of Dr. Zangerl’s responsibilities at the […]

Even though Boston added more units of housing in the last decade than in the three previous decades combined, the pace of new development is not keeping up with all the people who want to live here. The Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University predicts that unless annual housing production in […]

PERHAPS no public official was as synonymous with the antismoking movement as C. Everett Koop, who died last Monday at age 96. Dr. Koop, who worked tirelessly to turn America into “a smoke-free society,” did not live to see that goal reached. But the rest of us have the power to make it happen. Fewer than […]

At the same time, many companies “have a lack of interest” in hiring people out of work for too long, said William Dickens, professor of economics and social policy at Northeastern University in Boston and a senior fellow at Brookings. “It may take some unlearning on the part of firms.”

In presentations across the country, the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Land Institute is citing the Quincy project as one to watch. Northeastern University is planning a course for the fall semester called “The Quincy Model,” in which the public-private partnership behind the project will be used as a teaching tool. The New York Times and trade […]

Harvard is up. MIT is up. Northeastern is up. UMass Amherst is up. Boston University is up. But at Boston College, the number of applications received for its incoming freshman class is down. And that’s just the way the school wants it.

Bloomberg Businessweek has apologized after its latest cover, showing black and Latino people wallowing in cash, drew offense at what many saw as racist depictions. The cover was for a story entitled “The Great American Housing Rebound,” which describes a return to the aggressive mortgage lending practices that created the last housing bubble. … “Racist […]

Two civil rights advocates argued Wednesday against the reappointment of state parole board member Lucy Soto-Abbe, saying she is wrong for the panel because of her background as a longtime victim witness advocate and tendency to deny parole. Addressing the Governor’s Council, attorneys Patricia Garin and Leslie Walker said they would like to see more […]

Renewable-energy advocates need to emphasize economic development and jobs as they lobby North Carolina’s legislators to protect the state’s most important green-energy initiatives, saysMichael Youth, policy director of the N.C. Sustainable Energy Association. Youth spoke Wednesday to a crowd of about 50 at Northeastern University’s“Sustainable Energy: Policy and Practice” forum at the university’s Charlotte campus. He […]

The findings may also have implications for designing functional artificial or regenerated limbs and organs, noted Günther Zupanc, a neurobiologist at Northeastern University, who also did not participate in the study. “If they don’t connect to the brain, they’re useless,” Zupanc explained. The new research provides clues about “what kind of instructions we need to provide […]

The transportation of people and goods from one place to another creates about one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions. Of that, 80 percent comes from cars and trucks. What are the prospects for reducing those emissions? How is global climate change already affecting existing transportation systems? And how will it affect the ways we build […]

Segment 3: Since state authorities started investigating his parents for child abuse earlier this week, everyone seems to have developed an opinion on 9-year-old Brockton rapper Lil Poopy. Authorities reportedly started investigating Lil Poopy’s parents after viewing a music video in which he appears in sexually suggestive situations. Northeastern University associate professor of music Emmett G. […]