Thursday’s report also revised up, by 1,200, the Massachusetts jobs gain in May — from an original estimate of 9,100 to 10,300. “The Massachusetts economy is continuing to plug along at a moderate pace,” Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews said. “What’s interesting about it is that growth has been steady over the past year, for […]

I would argue that there’s another, more immediate educational use for wearables, one that students can benefit from even without laying their hands on the hardware: dreaming up software for the devices. In this month’s story on using Google Glass in the classroom, we found three early-adopter institutions encouraging students to design apps for the […]

But the unusual public display of dissent from employees to their bosses left some specialists in family business issues agog. “Wow,” said Ted Clark, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for Family Business. “It certainly shows their loyalty.” Though he admired their moxie, Clark likened the actions of the Demoulas employees to a game of […]

A study released Tuesday sought to answer the ages-old and oft-debated question, do women really talk more than men? This most recent answer seems to be: well, it depends. Northeastern University Professor David Lazer and his team studied 133 adult subjects in either professional or relaxed settings and gave them all “sociometers,” a device about […]

The $2.8 billion is the most that Buffett has donated to charities since he began making annual gifts in 2006, showing that Buffett is committed to giving away an unprecedented sum of money in his lifetime, says Rebecca Riccio, director of the Social Impact Lab at Northeastern University. She says Buffett considers these to be […]

The whole idea behind the Fairmount Line is to bring economic activity to the streets that surround the train tracks. Rising property prices should be an indication that the rail line has created something people want to be a part of. But that’s only if the trains are helping to create wealth in neighborhoods instead […]

“Basically, what we were able to achieve in 31 days is collecting over three years worth of data because we were living and working at the bottom of the sea. That gave us the luxury of time to collect that data,” he says. “Scientists were overwhelmed and elated by the amount of data and DNA […]

The thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America have crossed the border illegally and are now in the custody of border patrol have been all over the news. How much have America’s complex immigration policies helped escalate the political infighting? Callie sorted out the policy from the politics with Rachel Rosenbloom, a former immigration attorney, […]

The city’s efforts to commit to this Alzheimer’s Project will include joining the Alzheimer’s Workplace Alliance, formerly the Alzheimer’s Early Detection Alliance, and will make sure that its 17,000 employees have support and information on the disease, as well as educating employees about “the warning signs of Alzheimer’s, the importance of early detection, and the […]

“Coming out” has become the defining narrative of gay life in popular culture. Northeastern professor Suzanna Danulta Walters explores the issue of gay equality in her new book. Here’s what the ‘coming out’ narrative narrative misses, according to Professor Walters.

Guzzella, an engineer specializing in energy systems, is accomplished in his own right, with a slew of honors for his accomplishments. He was at Northeastern University on Friday with a delegation of about 70 Swiss to swap ideas with scholars and experts in Massachusetts on how to harness energy to meet the challenges of climate […]

Yet, even as ISIS gains territory in Iraq, many terrorism experts say it’s overhyped and a beneficiary of the failure of Shiite leaders to appeal to Sunnis. U.S. intelligence reports say the Islamic State makes up less than 20% of the Sunni rebels in Iraq. “The media is grossly overhyping the rise of ISIS,” said […]