Northeastern University students, faculty and alumni will have the chance to show off their latest innovations this week’s fourth Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo.

President Obama is expected to use his budget unveiling today to flesh out his threat last month to curb runaway college tuition increases – potentially by withholding federal student aid from those colleges that fail to keep prices down.

It’€™s Julia Child’€™s fault. That’s how Sara Noonan explained the extra pounds she acquired during 2010 and into 2011. “I started doing a lot of French cooking at home and using butter,”€™ she said. “€œBefore I knew it, my pants didn’t fit.”€™

This city is finally preparing to heal a hole in its heart: the site of the former Filene’s department store that for more than three years has been a stalled real-estate development in the center of downtown.

Shrewsbury teen Valerie N. Hall pushed her mother down a flight of stairs in 2000, smashed her head in with a hammer and left Kathleen Thompsen Hall to die while she went for a ride with her boyfriend. For her mother’s murder, Hall, a depressed and suicidal 16-year-old at the time, served nine years in […]

What’s in a face? We generally see it as a window into our inner lives?—?so much so that it’s possible to read our emotions from our facial expressions. And in recent decades, we have become enchanted by the notion that with a little specialized knowledge, we can read these feelings very, very accurately.

Super Bowl weekend kicked off with a star-studded retreat focusing on Boston’€™s future. World Class Cities Partnership (WCCP), in collaboration with City to City Boston and Boston World Partnerships, planned the 2012 Chatham Forum for engaged Greater Boston citizens to learn, discuss, renew friendships and expand networks.

Liberals are always searching for a conservative whom they consider to be honest, intelligent, and worthy of respectful debate. They have, sad to say, been harder and harder to find in recent years as the conservative movement has drifted away from its 20th century embrace of the precepts of the Enlightenment and normative science into […]

The future of the T will have wide-ranging effects on the city and all commuters. Last night, FOX 25’s Ted Daniel did a report on the MBTA’s growing debt and the possible impacts it might have on service going forward.

Northeastern University’€™s Open Classroom Seminars continues its semester-long series on Food & American Society: An Urban Prospective. Next Wednesday, Feb. 15, Frances Moore Lappa of The Small Planet Institute will speak on Food, Ecology, Democracy, Justice. On Feb. 22, hear Sara Dwyer of Oldways and Northeastern professors Lori Lefkovitz and Robert Hall discuss the role […]

Eight thousand dollars. That’€™s the average cost for a year’s in-state tuition at a public college or university in the US, according to the College Board. Pick a private school, and the price tag jumps to more than $28,500.

Chinese inflation is expected to trend lower in January, providing room for Beijing to stimulate its economy if the Euro area experiences a sharp recession. However, economists do not expect aggressive stimulus packages to be put in place as Beijing aims for a smooth leadership transition this year.