A business incubator program at Northeastern gave them $2,500 in seed money, enough to build their first prototype. This earned them the chance to seek investors at the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The three entrepreneurs set a goal of $60,000, but $234,000 rolled in. “That’s when we knew it was an idea that had legs,” Hertig […]

But Wendy Parnet, director of Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University, said the UnitedHealth move does not necessarily mean trouble for the market. “It’s certainly important for the success of the market for there to be competition, and that takes multiple insurers,” Parnet said. “But alone, I don’t think it necessarily says anything.” She […]

A new effort to turn tiny objects into an economic 
development initiative with big impact has kicked off, centering on making commercial products with a new nanomanufacturing technique. “We look at it as a way to democratize manufacturing, it’s a new manufacturing paradigm shift,” said Ahmed Busnaina, a Northeastern University professor who will lead the […]

Other scientists dismissed the study. Matthew Nisbet, who studies climate communications at Northeastern University, said it was seriously flawed. He said looking at where people live is a not a good indicator of the weather people prefer. Nisbet and University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Renee McPherson said politics, more than weather, colors people’s perception of […]

Northeastern University has been awarded $14 million from the Commonwealth, private companies and universities to develop smart sensors for industries ranging from medical and defense to energy. Gov. Charlie Baker and his administration awarded a five-year $3 million grant to Northeastern University on Tuesday in order to establish the project, formally called the Advanced Nanomanufacturing […]

Northeastern University will create a consortium of private companies and universities to develop smart sensors and other nanomaterials, or extremely small components that are built by “nanoscale” printing processes. Northeastern President Joseph Aoun announced the plan Tuesday at the university’s Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security on its Burlington campus. The consortium will be housed […]

The Baker administration has awarded a $3 million grant to a Northeastern University program that would focus on making tiny components for “smart” sensors and materials. The state’s investment, unveiled on Tuesday at Northeastern’s Kostas Research Institute in Burlington, would be matched by nearly $11 million in private funds from a combination of industry and […]

Of the cases studied, NECIR found none in which a prosecutor has been disbarred for professional misconduct. There have been only two public reprimands for misconduct since 1974, when the state Board of Bar Overseers was created, and those two carried no fines or other punishment. “Prosecutors have more power than anyone, in many respects, […]

The comments made by Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) at last week’s Democratic Party debate drew praise for breaking American political taboos about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Criticizing Israel’s military actions as “disproportionate” and calling for Palestinians to be treated with “respect and dignity” is certainly not what we’ve come to expect from American politicians, especially in […]

Northeastern University has been awarded a $3 million grant to establish the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials (“ANSSeM”), a consortium of private manufacturing companies and tier-one research universities working on new methods to create smart sensors and other revolutionary materials using ‘nanoscale’ printing processes. The five-year grant award is made by the […]

On the left, by contrast, people tend to mistrust corporations — especially big ones — as corrupt and destructive. These are the institutions bringing us both nuclear power and genetically modified agriculture. “When science is aligned with big corporations the left immediately, intuitively perceives the technology as not benefiting the greater good but only benefiting […]

The aphorism “A rising tide lifts all boats” has become entwined with a basic assumption that free trade results in economic wins for all players in the global economy. Of course this assumes you are lucky enough to have a boat that has not run aground. The classic case for free trade was made nearly […]