The National Endowment for the Humanities has a new home and a new chairman, but the agency’s work to fund digital humanities projects continues unabated. The NEH Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting was hosted for the eighth time in Washington on Monday, but for the first time in the agency’s new premises in the recently […]

Northeastern University is bucking the trend. The Boston-based research university, where tuition combined with room and board runs about $56,000 a year, has a special co-op program that provides semester-long full-time internship opportunities for students. The program has been around for more than a century. More than 90 percent of the students had internships last […]

Is it smarter to be more skeptical or more trusting of the people we meet? David DeSteno, a Northeastern University psychologist who studies the nature of trust, suggested the latter in response to a question during a recent Reddit AMA: “Our default is to trust people, but it’s a weak default. The reason why is […]

As the U.S. and other Western governments ramp up efforts to form an international coalition to fight the Islamic State, another crisis is brewing in the Middle East: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is trying to gain back both the influence and the territory it once held in the region, particularly in Yemen. As […]

Among the issues the next Massachusetts governor will face is a growing disconnect between the number of manufacturing jobs available in the state, and workers with enough skills to fill those positions. Researchers at Northeastern University estimate that Massachusetts manufacturers will have to fill 100,000 jobs over the next decade just from retiring workers, let […]

Several weeks ago, Northeastern University’s president dropped by The Washington Post to talk up the private institution in Boston. Joseph E. Aoun wanted to get the word out about “experiential learning” programs that combine professional work with academic scholarship in an attempt to position students for high-powered careers.

The ability to delay gratification has been held up as the one character trait to rule them all—the key to academic success, financial security, and social well-being. But willpower isn’t the answer. The new, emotional science of self-regulation.

In the online world, would-be pilots pretend to land airplanes, medical residents replicate surgeries, and future investors manage fantasy portfolios in a virtual stock exchange in video games designed to simulate actual situations. Now, legal aid lawyers in Connecticut and NuLawLab of Boston’s Northeastern University School of Law hope creating a video law game that […]

Many vocational and technical schools across Massachusetts have long waiting lists for students seeking admission, creating a bottleneck in worker training even as thousands of well-paying jobs go unfilled for lack of skilled labor, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by researchers at Northeastern University School of Law, found that at least 3,500 […]

Vast acres of underused space also presented Boston with a once in a life-time opportunity: a chance to build a brand new neighborhood from scratch, right at the harbor’s edge. But as the Seaport District takes shape, some fear the development now underway is falling short.

Marla Runyan is a gold medal winner in life. And, when it comes to adversity, she places it in the rear- view mirror. These days, the 45-year-old Runyan juggles a variety of roles as a mother, a teacher at Perkins School for the Blind and as the new volunteer assistant coach in cross country and […]

The visceral and violent act of a celebrity athlete — captured on video that was shown repeatedly — caused it to resonate across the U.S., said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston. “In this instance there is a video and it goes […]