Nick Gentry will be able to celebrate two major accomplishments this month: He’s graduating from high school and, after a very long job search, he has landed his first job.

Amid the excitement of earning a high school diploma and the sadness of saying goodbye to childhood friends, high school seniors might not have time to consider how they can make the most of their days in college. However, these four years can be the most influential time in students’ lives, and they should start […]

Sport in Society at Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association will begin accepting applications for an anti-bullying leadership training initiative Tuesday.

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Edmund Yeh of Northeastern University explains how the structure of the Internet could be changed to improve efficiency.

IDEA is Northeastern University’s student-run program that provides money and guidance to aspiring entrepreneurs. Emily talks with 23-year-old Stariella Newman, who used $10K in IDEA seed money to start Willo Cocktails — a low-calorie, organic bottled cocktail company.

Could a skin-tight shirt festooned with sensors improve the quality of your work-out? A team of Northeastern students and profs have built a prototype that could point the way to the future of coaching and personal training for some elite athletes — and perhaps eventually hard-core gym rats, too.

It was 40 years ago that President Nixon signed legislation preventing gender discrimination in higher education. Today, Title IX is most widely known for pulling down the old barriers to female college athletes. But is it truly a level playing field?

Diseases that strike different parts of the body—and that don’t seem to resemble each other at all—may actually have a lot in common.

It’s that time of year again when moving trucks, out-of-state vehicles, and proud parents crowd the city’s streets as thousands of celebratory students graduate from college and move out of Boston. More than two dozen Boston-area colleges and universities will say goodbye to their seniors during May and June.

Ready or not, Boston is ramping up for another building boom. There are at least five major residential projects under review at City Hall, including ones for Stuart Street, Copley Place, Chinatown, the Seaport District, and the Fenway. Together, these proposals would add up to 1,400 new apartments and condos over the next few years.

If surveys of Occupy Wall Street supporters conducted last fall still hold true, the crowds of protesters expected to turn out Tuesday forMay Day events across the country will most likely skew male, young, white, college educated, underpaid, and thoroughly disgusted with the American political system.

Diseases that strike different parts of the body—and that don’t seem to resemble each other at all—may actually have a lot in common.