William Fitzsimmons, Harvard’s dean of admissions and financial aid, is expecting about 40,000 prospective students and family members to register for tours of its campus this year — more than twice as many as a decade ago. More than 70,000 visitors attended Boston University information sessions and tours in 2014, a 33 percent increase from […]

A car cleaning company, a supermarket group serving the Hispanic community and an electrical contractor took top honors Wednesday night in Northeastern University’s annual family business awards. As in many business competitions, judges looked at areas such as innovation and positive community impact. In a departure from the usual criteria, the panel assembled by the […]

But Louis J. Kruger, a professor of educational psychology at Northeastern University, said an MCAS score is not enough by itself to accurately assess student performance. “The MCAS . . . is one measure among many potential measures,” Kruger said. “If we want a full picture of someone’s academic accomplishment, we have to use multiple measures, because […]

Graduation ceremonies for the 34 public high schools in Boston began last week and will continue through next week. The more than 4,100 students graduating from one of the country’s most diverse school systems come from more than 100 different countries. WBUR’s Delores Handy joins Morning Edition to introduce us to one of these notable graduates: Fatuma Mohamed, who was born […]

This week is a big one for America’s global relations. While Congress started hashing out whether to hand the president authority to finish the largest trade deal in history, Obama was wrapping up the G-7 economic summit in Germany. Beneath the talking points, what are America’s real priorities when it comes to the rest of […]

“24 Hours in the Life of a Swiss Cuckoo Clock” contains 24 cuckoo clock designs created by students and faculty the Geneva University of Art and Design. The pieces, on display at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, update the look of an old and whimsical way of telling time. Cuckoo clocks developed in the Black Forest […]

It’s Friday at 4 p.m. and anxiety is setting in. You were so busy this week that somehow, it totally slipped you mind to make weekend plans—and now, you’re left frantically texting friends and trying to round something up. It’s a scenario that Northeastern alum Akaash Yadav and Armaan Gupta often ran into during school, […]

New government research shows that female military veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women, a startling finding that experts say poses disturbing questions about the backgrounds and experiences of women who serve in the armed forces. Their suicide rate is so high that it approaches that of male veterans, a […]