President Obama said the words “college” or “colleges” 12 times in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, which seems like a relatively high figure for a speech—and a nation—full of issues. How does Mr. Obama’s focus on higher education in the address compare to that of other presidents? The work of Benjamin M. Schmidt, […]

Two weeks ago, a team led by scientists from Northeastern University published a study describing a new class of antibiotics called teixobactin, which they found in the soil of a field in Maine. The Internet subsequently lit up with both excitement and criticism (mostly excitement, though). It’s the first new antibiotic in a long time, […]

The match up for the 2015 Super Bowl has been set. The real challenge for the media over the next fortnight is to find something intelligible to say about the personnel of the two teams. The defending champion Seahawks of Seattle barely made it back to the big game with a comeback for the ages. […]

The survey is hardly the first evidence that employers don’t think college graduates are adequately prepared. A 2014 study from Bentley University found that both employers and recent college graduates themselves believe graduates are not prepared for their first jobs. A Gallup study released in the same year found that employers doubt colleges produce students […]

Northeastern University held its annual celebration celebration of King, called “A Tribute to the Dream” on Thursday, January 15. Award-winning filmmaker Yoruba Richen, producer of “The New Black: The Intersection of Race, LGBTQ Rights, and the Fight for Equality,” delivered a speech and the Unity Gospel Choir performed

With three unemployed workers for every job opening, employers can be selective. In startling research, Rand Ghayad, a labor economist at Northeastern University, found that prospective employers consistently threw out resumes of applicants with a recent stint of unemployment in favor of applicants with consistent work histories — even applicants with less education or no […]

Expanding paternity leave for fathers will help make families stronger, advocates say, noting that the more both parents are involved in the lives of their children, the more successful those children will be. Having time to care for and bond with a newborn can instill in men a “sense of fatherhood” that can lead to […]

It was the alchemists’ old dream to create gold from dross. Now microbiologists from Boston and Bonn, Germany, may have come up with the medical equivalent — a potentially breakthrough antibiotic derived from microbes dwelling in plain old New England dirt. It will be at least two years before the antibiotic is ready for clinical […]