Constantinos Mavroidis and Mark Sivak supervise Northeastern students and assign them with one “very broad” task every fall semester. This past year, it was to create a medical device that could be used to monitor users’ activities at home, that could also be interfaceable with a smartphone. Little did they know, their students would create […]

The good news for emerging job graduates is hiring is on the upswing. But a brighter employment picture isn’t lessening the anxiety of newly minted grads, who face the real-world lesson that good job opportunities still remain elusive.

Albert-László Barabási is one of the world’s top experts in network theory. Here’s his take on mobile phone viruses and how a changing smartphone ecosystem could spell doom.

A health group is asking the U.S. government to yank a Gatorade ad that it says deceptively implies that basketball great Michael Jordan prevailed over the flu during a memorable 1997 game because he fueled with Gatorade.

A ‘crowdsourced’ video production studio, Poptent has gathered 50,000 writers, directors, cinematographers and animators to make ads for American Airlines, Intel, Jaguar, General Mills and others.

Student-run venture accelerator IDEA has added another pitch round over the summer, and more funding to its program.

Justin Dowd, a student at Northeastern University, defeated hundreds of thousands of other Metro readers around the world to win a trip into space in 2014. In the coming weeks Justin will be writing a new popular science column for Metro — and here he recalls a week to remember.

A group of recent Northeastern University engineering graduates has proposed an innovative way of easing pedestrian gridlock on Hanover Street in the North End: portable sidewalks.

Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell urged graduating Northeastern University students Friday to follow their passion in everything they do and to become active participants in a world that sorely needs their talents.

On Friday, former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell delivered the commencement address at Northeastern University’s 110th ceremony, where he urged the graduating class, in part, to “make public service a part of your life.

The development of a “nano-tattoo” by Heather Clark, an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences in Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences in Boston, US, could eradicate the need for diabetics to check their blood sugar levels by pricking into their fingers.

Prominent attorney and civic leader Tayloe Washburn has left the Foster Pepper law firm to head a new Seattle branch of Boston’s Northeastern University.