Why I Picked Northeastern University (Boston) Rachael Tompa, 2014 graduate I knew I wanted a career in aerospace and defense, so when I visited Northeastern’s ​campus, I was happy not only to be shown the usual sights like dorms, classrooms and the beautiful rec center, but also to be taken on faculty-led tours of the […]

So far, other than a few patients evacuated by air ambulance from West Africa, there have been no known cases of Ebola-infected people traveling from that region to other parts of the world. But could that luck be running out? Every month, week and day that the Ebola epidemic continues to rage, the chances of […]

Innovation was the topic of the evening at Northeastern University in Boston on Sept. 18. The university invited three women to talk about how they incorporate innovation in their respective companies — a hospital and a robotics company. Their remarks were then streamed live to the university’s satellite campuses in Charlotte and Seattle to reach […]

According to one model reported on by NPR, we should expect to see about 15,000 cases by mid-October. (So far, about 5,000 have been reported.) Researchers led by Jeffrey Shaman, an associate professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, say the virus is spreading at an “exponential” rate. “It’s an unprecedented outbreak that […]

In Jackson Hole, Wyo., this August, Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve, gave a speech explaining just how hard it is to understand unemployment. She made passing mention of an idea only an economist could love: “downward nominal wage rigidity.” In plain English, that means it’s hard for any company to cut pay, even […]

It is a method of killing as old as the act of killing itself. Employed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, referenced in the Koran and the Bible. A staple of the Crusades and medieval Europe, and practised in some parts of that continent as recently as the Second World War. A method still preferred […]

We tend to think of popular culture as an amorphous, unquantifiable thing — the stuff of critics and marketers and tenuous trend pieces. But thanks to the work of academics like Northeastern University history professor Benjamin Scmidt, who applies computer science and digital techniques to the humanities, we actually have far more objective, data-based insight […]

In the past week, world leaders have started using a mathematical term when they talk about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. “It’s spreading and growing exponentially,” President Obama said Tuesday. “This is a disease outbreak that is advancing in an exponential fashion,” said Dr. David Nabarro, who is heading the U.N.’s effort against Ebola. […]

Right now we’ve had more than 5,000 cases of Ebola and at least 2,600 people have died. Some scientists, like Alessandro Vespignani at Northeastern University in Boston, are taking numbers like that and putting them into computer models to see where this epidemic is going. “You know, for instance, in our modeling, by mid-October, we’re […]

The next big thing in three-dimensional printing is small — so small it’s practically two-dimensional. A machine unveiled Wednesday by Northeastern University promises to speed up the manufacturing and drive down the cost of everything from consumer electronics to prescription drugs by printing in ultra-thin layers as minuscule as 20 nanometers. That’s 1,000 times thinner […]

Cell phone carriers are battling for your business by cutting prices, ditching contracts, and offering to pay your fee to switch. Act fast to lock in your savings. If you’re unhappy with your cell phone service—and really, who isn’t?—now might be a unique time to either renegotiate your contract or move to a new carrier. […]

William Dickens, chairman of the economics department at Boston’s Northeastern University and a leading expert on joblessness, said the persistence of the long-term unemployment problem six years after the financial crisis points to one thing: that policy makers should take the problem more seriously. “It may take a very aggressive policy, including accepting some inflation, […]