Young is getting a crash course from two experts in the field, Mark Patterson and Brian Helmuth, Northeastern University faculty members who both went on their first saturation dive missions before Young was born. They “adopted” Young as part of Northeastern’s research and science team, which is conducting five projects during the second half of […]

Stanley Rosenblatt, 77, and his wife, Susan, 63, filed their tobacco class-action suit in 1994. He was a prominent-personal injury lawyer. She had earned a law degree at age 21 and given birth to nine children en route to an ace appellate practice. Back then, tobacco companies were nearly invincible, says Northeastern University law professor […]

Three professors today were awarded the prestigious 12th Annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for their groundbreaking antitrust scholarship. Established in memory of Mr. Cohen, a founding partner of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, the award was given today to professors C. Scott Hemphill, Tim Wu, and John E. Kwoka, Jr. at […]

Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economist, said the jobs gained in May are a continuation of “moderate growth” for the state. As people have begun working again, incomes have risen, households have paid down debt, and home prices have increased. That has boosted consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the nation’s economic […]

Massachusetts now ranks sixth in the nation in total life sciences employment but No. 1 in industry jobs per capita, in part due to support from the state, according to Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. By 2012, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the state had 113,678 jobs […]

Massachusetts’ workforce has the nation’s highest concentration of jobs in biotechnology, medical technology, and other life sciences fields, according to a report released Wednesday. More than 113,000 people in the state work in life sciences, making the sector about as big as the state’s construction industry. The biggest chunk of life sciences workers, more than […]

Between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, Cape Cod experienced a 26 percent decline in the number of residents aged between 25 and 44. This has resulted in something of an existential crisis on the Cape, as business and government leaders have questioned how the region can maintain vitality without young workers starting young families. The […]

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has cancelled the Washington Redskins’ trademark registration, calling the football team’s name disparaging to Native Americans. While this is the first step in what could become a lengthy judicial proceeding, it reflects a growing recognition in our country that we have begun to move beyond the racial slurs of […]

Many people questioned whether the tax break granted to Millennium at the end of the term of former Mayor Thomas M. Menino was misplaced, said Thomas J. Vicino, an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University. “There is a market failure here — there is not enough housing being produced for the city in […]

Crabs have a sort of inner ear that helps them to hear nearby predators, US scientists have found. An organ called the statocyst, previously shown to play a role in crustacean balance, is also used for the crab equivalent of hearing, they reported Tuesday in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Biologists […]

If you were at TechJam last week, or frequent the Kendall Square Farmers’ Market, or plan to attend this weekend’s Star Trek Convention (don’t admit that last one), you’ll probably notice a large white van. It’s not a kidnapper. It’s actually a creative marketing strategy designed to drum up interest in Northeastern University’s new master […]

One last point: in my recent Next Avenue blog post about the Giving With Purpose MOOC I enrolled in — offered by Northeastern University and the Giving With Purpose Foundation — I mentioned that it would give $150,000 in grants to nonprofits that passed muster with the students. The 30 winning nonprofits have just been […]