Apprenticeships are different and more intensive than internships. An apprentice gig is typically formal training for a job, where the employer plans to hire the apprentice. And apprenticeships last longer and pay better than internships. A better comparison is cooperative education. Northeastern University has the most widely acclaimed co-op program, where students combine classroom studies […]

One team of emerging architects, called studioMAUD — which recently won an innovation award from Northeastern University — proposes that Boston take modular construction to a whole new level. Rather than ship modular units from an existing factory in Pennsylvania and, soon, a new one in Brooklyn, N.Y., these architects are rightly suggesting Boston build […]

Both Periscope, owned by Twitter, and Meerkat allow users to live-stream personal videos. Cue footage of comedians washing their hair and families going for a bicycle ride – trending in Germany last week. However, Periscope has already proved itself invaluable for citizen journalists, according to Jeff Howe, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston, […]

GLEAM, a project out of Northeastern University, is an epidemic forecaster 10 years in the making. It combines data on population—where people live down to a resolution of 25 square miles—along with how people commute and travel, characteristics of disease, and possible responses like travel restrictions and vaccination efforts. After crunching all this data, the […]

The blue-and-black dress, which appeared white and gold (to some) in the now-infamous photo, would become a hot topic on Buzzfeed, Twitter, even morning talk shows. Weirdly, for a day — maybe a bit more — the dress was the topic in pop culture. It was inescapable. Turns out that the epicenter of that digital […]

Cramer rarely supports his stock-picking advice with credible, peer-reviewed data. An academic study by Paul Bolster and Emery Trahan, professors of finance at Northeastern University with no axe to grind, took a look at Cramer’s buy and sell recommendations for the period from July 28, 2005, through Dec. 31, 2007. They found “little compelling information […]