Event management software startup Attendware raises $1M from .406 Ventures Boston startup Attendware, which offers software for event check-in and auto-generated name tag printing, on Tuesday said it has raised a $1 million Series A round from .406 Ventures of Boston. Attendware’s product was initially developed at Northeastern University last August. That’s where co-founder Greg Skloot headed the university Entrepreneurs Club — and found shortcomings in current event […]
The Hechinger Report Reported skills gap widens—and so does skepticism “What level of education is required to do your work, and what level do people have? Both workers and employers are adaptable, and as long as the shortages and skills gaps are not too dramatic—and the ones we have really aren’t—that adaptability means we can continue to expand the economy,” says Michael Handel, a sociologist […]
CNN Money Recent college grads face 36% ‘mal-employment’ rate More than a third of recent college grads with jobs are working in positions that don’t require a degree. Economists call that figure the “mal-employment” rate, and right now it tops 36% for college-educated workers under the age of 25, according to figures crunched by Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies […]
USAID v. AOSI: A Victory for Sex Workers and Feminist Allies The U.S. Supreme Court case Agency for International Development v. Alliance for the Open Society Institute International is a landmark case for individuals working on alleviating the impact of the HIV epidemic throughout the world. The case found that the “anti prostitution loyalty oath” mandated by USAID compelled U.S.-based organizations to take the government position on prostitution, […]
Experiences inspire student’s joblessness research As many of his friends struggled to find jobs in 2009, Rand Ghayad, a PhD candidate in economics at Northeastern University, decided to search for answers to explain why smart, educated, and experienced people remained out of work for so long, despite hundreds of thousands of job vacancies. What he found after more than four […]
Beyond the Anti-Prostitution Pledge: The Public Health Buck Does Not Stop Here Yesterday’s Supreme Court’s 6-2 decision in US Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International invalidated the “anti-prostitution pledge.” Advanced by religious and other anti-human-trafficking groups, this provision was integrated in the Leadership Act–the law that authorized the Bush Era’s flagship PEPFAR initiative to fight HIV/AIDS. At issue in this case was the Act’s condition […]
Charlotte Business Journal Northeastern-Charlotte adds doctoral degree in education Northeastern University is expanding the curriculum at its Charlotte campus by adding a doctorate in education. The program — Northeastern’s third doctoral degree here — recently was approved by the UNC Board of Governors. Boston-based Northeastern is the only university based outside North Carolina to win approval to offer doctoral degrees, says Cheryl Richards, chief executive and […]
The Boston Herald Ben Bernanke: Bond buys could end next year The Fed has been buying $85 million in bonds each month, and said it will continue to do so until the outlook for the job market improves substantially. When the Fed does pull back on the bond-buying program, Bernanke said it will be like a driver taking a foot off the gas, rather than slamming […]
Callahan Tunnel to close for three months But shuttering the Callahan Tunnel could hardly come at a worse time: It will overlap the Longfellow Bridge construction project, set to start next month, which will halt northbound traffic, as well as the closing of the Government Center MBTA station, scheduled for the fall, which will hamper commuters who want to take the Blue Line […]
ABC News Whitey Bulger Case Hit Man Was Not a Classic Serial Killer “A serial killer typically uses sex as a vehicle for tempting to gain a sense of power and dominance and control,” said Jack Levin, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston and a co-author of the 2008 book, “Extreme Killing.” “In most cases, it includes torture,” he said. “Martorano was right in court when he […]
State seeks to build water tech cluster “If we could have access to real-world scale, actual test beds, we could do a lot better job preparing new technologies for market cheaper and faster,” Per Suneby, president of waste-to-energy firm BioConversion Solutions LLC and one of the executives behind the proposal, said in an interview Tuesday. The idea for the network was developed […]
WFAE Northeastern-Charlotte Adds Doctor Of Education Boston-based Northeastern University is now offering a third doctoral degree program through its Charlotte campus. The UNC Board of Governors approved a doctoral degree in education last week, making it the school’s third doctoral degree. The first two — in nursing and physical therapy — were approved in May. They were the first to be […]