Business schools are making it a priority to combat plagiarism in admissions essays, following an incident last year when a Penn State admissions officer discovered dozens of MBA applicants who copied verbatim from an online essay. Next Wednesday, admissions officers will be gathering in Boston to speak about plagiarism and integrity in application essays at […]

Too old for traditional summer camp but too young to hold jobs, middle school students are at an impressionable stage — and they have time on their hands, said David Roach, cochairman of the governor’€™s Commonwealth Corps Commission.

Boston capital investment firm Allied Minds Inc. has led a $3 million funding of CryoXtract Instruments LLC, a Virginia laboratory automation company focused on biobanking and formed through a collaboration between Harvard University and Northeastern University.

Shares of J.C. Penney flew off the shelves Tuesday as investors applauded the company’s coup in luring away Apple’s retail head to be its new CEO.

As college-access advocates work to preserve federal student-aid funds in a difficult budget climate, it’s natural that most of their attention is focused on Pell Grants. After all, that program provides low-income students with grants that don’t have to be repaid. But Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University, is worried that the Perkins […]

Ten days after an Indiana University student vanished, police said Monday they plan to release enhanced security camera video in the hope the public can help identify the vehicles that drove through the area around the time the young woman was last seen.

Less than 24 hours before Sunday night’€™s parliamentary elections, the Sultanahmet neighborhood was a campaign battleground. Flags strung between old brick buildings hung like spider webs of laundry, and motorcars blared campaign rants as minivans wound their way through narrow streets.

Valedictorians applying to Harvard report not only breathtaking grades and SAT scores but also any criminal convictions or high school disciplinary violations. Such mandated disclosures are standard at hundreds of schools, including the University of Massachusetts and most other Massachusetts state colleges.

THE ECHOES grow ever more faint as we move ever farther from their source. George Frazier has been gone for 37 years, and we don’t hear as much about him anymore.

MIAMI – There are plenty of reasons to pull for the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals, which tips off Sunday night, at 8 p.m. Eastern. They share the ball on offense, and despite the advancing age of their players, give maximum effort on defense. They have two veteran future Hall […]

AMMAN, Jordan — Bazar Al Mhirat is a modest antique shop located at the Wasat al Ballad market in downtown Amman. Walking by, customers are drawn in by chunky vintage rings with pigmented stones, necklaces fit for royalty, and a collection of dusty coins.

Research groups at the Tevatron, the proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, have reached starkly different conclusions about a possible sighting of new particles beyond what is expected under the standard model of particle physics.