A program at Northeastern University aims to strengthen trade ties at a state and local level between cities across the globe.

In reporting StateImpact’€™s recent story on Idaho’€™s high teen unemployment rate, one of the people I consulted was Andrew Sum, of Northeastern University in Boston. He’€™s an economist, and an expert on the youth labor market. Here, he explains the magnitude of the shifts Idaho has seen in terms of teen employment.

Prosecutors built a better than expected case before resting Thursday in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on a gay sexual encounter of his roommate who later committed suicide, legal experts say.

Boston has always been a center for higher education, but now many of the area’s best-known names in education are creating satellite campuses around the country. By building a national network, universities say they can address educational needs that are not met in other parts of the country, and keep growing.

“Every age has its happiness and troubles,” famous French uber-centenarian Jeanne Calment once said. And every age, quite literally, looks at happiness and troubles in different ways. For that nugget of wisdom, we can tip our hats to Derek Isaacowitz.

The students, trustees and employees of Boston University received an e-mail from Robert Brown, the university’s president, on Wednesday concerning the men’s hockey team. He was not congratulating the Terriers on their 21-win season or wishing them luck in their opening game in the Hockey East playoffs Friday.

The New Orleans Saints’ bounty-hunting scandal has rocked the NFL and provoked widespread outrage about the ethical violations involved in paying athletes to injure other players.

Marie-Therese Connolly is using the prosecutorial skill she honed fighting nursing home fraud to add dimensions to the public’s awareness of the widespread problem of elder abuse, including highlighting the costs to society of financial, physical and psychological mistreatment of older adults.

Learning to swim is tricky business. Instructors can present the breathing techniques and various strokes, but at some point, you have to let go of the edge and experience a little bit of what drowning feels like. Acquiring massive student loans requires a similar kind of bravery.

At the seARTS annual meeting Feb. 28 at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, the focus was on art – €”the business of art.

Under normal circumstances, The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project is beneficial to both sides, U.S. Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah told Trend.

Super-strong magnets found in electronic devices such as computers and mobile phones play a crucial role in modern life, but the rare earth elements that power these magnets have fallen into short supply.