The general rule of thumb is that if your loved one has a lot of debt, and there’s plenty of money to pay it off, the debt will be paid off, according to Tim Gagnon, a professor of accounting at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. “If a person dies with […]

A social network is just that – a network of people with knowledge on a variety of topics. But most social users engage with only a fraction of their connections. Chirag Kulkarni, a 20-year-old Northeastern University business student, has recognized the lack of communication among Twitter and LinkedIn followers and is launching a beta version Tuesday of […]

The number one story: “A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance,” published in January in Nature. “We didn’t quite anticipate the media frenzy around the paper,” says co-author Brian Conlon, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s certainly a strange experience to see a photograph of bacterial cultures you took in the lab […]

Justice Antonin Scalia has come under fire this week for controversial comments on affirmative action during a hearing on Wednesday. The Supreme Court Justice suggested African American students “do well” at “slower track schools”—as opposed to top-tier universities. “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the […]

Americans can add concerns about their physical safety to a list of worries that already includes job insecurity, record economic inequality, and trust in government reaching an all-time low. The San Bernardino shootings show that terror attacks on soft targets are not confined to Europe. The premeditated slaughter of innocent civilians by radical Islamic terrorists […]

Not putting money away for retirement. Many people are guilty of this. In fact, last March, the National Institute on Retirement Security released a study revealing that nearly 40 million working-age households have no retirement savings at all. But it can be even more difficult for freelancers to save for their golden years when hampered […]

Mike Beaudet joins WCVB Former WFXT investigative reporter and current Northeastern University journalism professor Mike Beaudet is returning to the field with WCVB as part of their investigative team. Beaudet joins Kathy Curran and Karen Anderson as part of the station’s multi-media investigative news team. Beaudet will incorporate his Northeastern students and teaching into his […]