NU president urges military to resume tuition aid The Pentagon’s decision to suspend tuition assistance because of the government shutdown prompted Northeastern University president Joseph E. Aoun to send a strongly worded letter Sunday to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a plea to reinstate the aid for active-duty service members. The cutoff affects as many as two dozen service members who plan to […]
MIT researchers aim to make drugs on the battlefield Turning that into a mobile operation is a prodigious task. The process has to be shrunk by more than a thousandfold and sped up to work in less than 24 hours. And the drugs have to be tested in near-real time to prove they are safe, pure, and potent. In addition to MIT’s Center for […]
WCVB TV Service members’ college tuition help halted by shutdown It is a stressful time for Northeastern University students who are also active-duty service members. The Pentagon has suspended tuition assistance funding as a result of the government shutdown. There’s a lot of uncertainty,” said Lt. Col. Blaise Gallahue, who leads Northeastern’s ROTC program. “We are just hoping those decisions get made soon and quickly […]
NECN Northeastern University steps up for military It’s one more example of spreading fallout from the partial federal government shutdown: Some two dozen active-duty U.S. military personnel beginning classes next week at Northeastern University were going to be forced to withdraw from NU’s College of Professional Studies because their Pentagon tuition aid has been shut down. But Monday, Northeastern president Joseph Aoun […]
Which of these breakthroughs will still matter in 20 years? In a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, a team from Northeastern University took a shot at creating a new tool for predicting whether a paper will be a major breakthrough. In the new work, Albert-László Barabási, a physicist who works in the emerging field of analyzing networks, found that with four to five years […]
Northeastern University Presses Military To Resume Tuition Aid Northeastern University is asking the Pentagon to reinstate its tuition assistance program for active-duty military members, which has been suspended due to the government shutdown. The university has stepped in to fill the funding gap for the two dozen service members at Northeastern who could have been affected. Still, Michael Armini, Northeastern’s senior vice president […]
Earnings Gap Narrows, but College Education Still Pays, Report Says Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies and a professor of economics at Northeastern University, said the report should have focused on an important trend among today’s new college graduates: mal-employment. “A larger share of college grads are ending up in jobs that don’t require college degrees,” Mr. Sum said. Those who […]
Officials seek to prosecute Tsarnaev in Mass. Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said that dual prosecutions are relatively rare and typically involve high-profile cases that spark public outcry, such as in the case of the Washington, D.C., snipers. If Tsarnaev is convicted on the federal charges and sentenced to death or life in prison, a state case would be […]
Taking a turn to tech from a liberal arts background ELLEN DAOUST graduated from Smith College in 2009 with a degree in government and Spanish and an interest in communications, but no real idea of how to turn that into a career. But after three years in the national service program AmeriCorps, where she worked with video while involved in community and youth development, and eight […]
‘Mini-renaissance’ in manufacturing helps fuel demand for skilled workers There are no estimates on how many CNC-certified workers are needed, but an aging manufacturing workforce and wave of baby boomer retirements in coming years is expected to increase demand. A recent Northeastern Universityreport estimates that manufacturers will need to fill 100,000 jobs in Massachusetts alone over the coming decade, with many of those jobs in […]
Patriot Ledger JOSEPH GIGLIO: While America’s losses mount, huge gains for top 1% Several weeks ago, the Federal Reserve decided not to cut back, or taper as the finance mavens say, the billion-dollar bond buying program known as quantitative easing, which is a euphemism for printing money. A gradual reduction of QE had been expected since June, when Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said the economy was getting stronger […]
CNBC Your GMO Frankenfood to be farmed by Google algos Big data is the new A-bomb Not since Robert Oppenheimer faced down his demons after spearheading the Manhattan Project have scientists been faced with as big an ethical dilemma as big data represents, says Albert-László Barabási,a physicist and network scientist at Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School, in a Politico op-ed this past week. “This summer, while visiting […]