When the first case of Ebola was diagnosed in the United States this week, Northeastern University researcher Alessandro Vespignani was not surprised. For weeks, the data scientist who designs and runs big computer simulations of infectious disease outbreaks has been carefully tweaking a model to project the spread of the virus. The current risk of […]

Researchers who have modeled the risk of the international spread of the Ebola virus have been clear that the longer the outbreak goes on and the bigger it is, the more likely Ebola is to spread beyond West Africa to the rest of the world. “If the epidemic continues at this growth rate and produces […]

Ted Clark, executive professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Family Business, says that though Hibbert’s thriving Orange County locations prove that her business model works, she needs to keep in mind that Fashion Camp is a niche business. Therefore, Clark believes that […]

Two Massachusetts universities are among 24 nationwide that have received millions of dollars in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the federal agency announced Tuesday. Northeastern University received $3.9 million and Bay Path University in Longmeadow received $3.5 million as part of the Department of Education’s First in the World grant program. In […]

Some workplace experts, like Lynne Sarikas, director of the MBA Career Center at the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, suggest resisting office politics as much as possible. “Do not listen to the office gossip, and do not participate in spreading gossip,” she says. “Office politics can be a black hole that wastes […]

Two Massachusetts colleges were awarded more than $3 million each Tuesday in federal grants aimed at helping colleges develop new approaches to increase their value, affordability, and completion rates. Northeastern University was awarded $3.9 million and Bay Path University in Longmeadow $3.5 million through the First in the World grant program, according to the US […]

On the evening of Aug. 13, while I was checking Twitter, I started to see reports coming in that the police in Ferguson, Missouri, were forcibly suppressing nonviolent protests. Five days earlier, on Aug. 9, a teenager named Michael Brown had been killed by a police officer under circumstances that are still unclear. I turned […]

Talk about luck. Back in 2009, Congress passed landmark legislation directing the US Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products, which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention kill at least 480,000 Americans each year—more than were killed in battle in all of our foreign wars combined. Among the agency’s early moves […]

Federal health-care officials, hospital administrators and emergency-care doctors are preparing for the first cases of Ebola here in the United States. Experts say it’s not a question of if, but rather when it will happen. The good news is that the public health infrastructure in the United States — from the epidemiologists at the Centers […]

In fact, an examination of Coast Guard records found that dozens of key vessels routinely deployed for search-and-rescue and law enforcement missions were never ready last year, and for increasingly longer periods of time. The agency reported that its 34 high and medium-endurance cutters, and 37 large patrol boats, were stuck at the pier and […]

To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, the only major British poet born in St. Louis, September 2008 was the cruelest month. As America marks the sixth anniversary of the financial meltdown which began that month and drove the global economy off the cliff and into the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, the damage it did is […]

Seventy percent of the incidents identified occurred either inside a business or an educational environment, like a public school or a college campus. Sixty percent were over by the time police arrived, all but two involved a single shooter, and in 40% of them, the shooters committed suicide. But at least two prominent criminologists have […]