WGBH How Northeastern University’s IDEA program supports young entrepreneurs IDEA is Northeastern University’s student-run program that provides money and guidance to aspiring entrepreneurs. Emily talks with 23-year-old Stariella Newman, who used $10K in IDEA seed money to start Willo Cocktails — a low-calorie, organic bottled cocktail company.
Northeastern students create a shirt that knows when you’re slacking off on your workout Could a skin-tight shirt festooned with sensors improve the quality of your work-out? A team of Northeastern students and profs have built a prototype that could point the way to the future of coaching and personal training for some elite athletes — and perhaps eventually hard-core gym rats, too.
WGBH Title IX turns 40 It was 40 years ago that President Nixon signed legislation preventing gender discrimination in higher education. Today, Title IX is most widely known for pulling down the old barriers to female college athletes. But is it truly a level playing field?
Fox News The genetic links between different diseases Diseases that strike different parts of the body—and that don’t seem to resemble each other at all—may actually have a lot in common.
College commencements in the Boston area It’s that time of year again when moving trucks, out-of-state vehicles, and proud parents crowd the city’s streets as thousands of celebratory students graduate from college and move out of Boston. More than two dozen Boston-area colleges and universities will say goodbye to their seniors during May and June.
Boston Magazine Why Must a Few Lonely Cranks Decide the Future of Boston’s Buildings? Ready or not, Boston is ramping up for another building boom. There are at least five major residential projects under review at City Hall, including ones for Stuart Street, Copley Place, Chinatown, the Seaport District, and the Fenway. Together, these proposals would add up to 1,400 new apartments and condos over the next few years.
Academia Occupied by Occupy If surveys of Occupy Wall Street supporters conducted last fall still hold true, the crowds of protesters expected to turn out Tuesday forMay Day events across the country will most likely skew male, young, white, college educated, underpaid, and thoroughly disgusted with the American political system.
Genes May Link Disparate Diseases Diseases that strike different parts of the body—and that don’t seem to resemble each other at all—may actually have a lot in common.
More companies adding internships as economic recovery crawls along With diplomas no longer guaranteeing full-time jobs for college students, unique post-graduate plans are popping up everywhere.
ABC Boston Local College Student Wins Trip To Space Northeastern student and Princeton native Justin Dowd has won a spot on one of the first space tourism trips scheduled for 2014.
New York Post Feds eye fix to loan$ For some students’ federal college loans, Uncle Sam might be ready to forgive and forget. The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 aims to erase the federal student loan debt of academia’s most dutiful borrowers — those who have already paid 10 percent of their discretionary income servicing their arrears over 10 years — and cap […]
Antiracism rally cites hockey tweets Two days after a barrage of racist tweets followed a Bruins game, an annual rally against racism in downtown Boston took on stronger purpose.