“Avoid phrases such as ‘best candidate’ and ‘perfect fit’ when describing your capabilities. You are really not in a position to make that assessment and it comes across to the reader as arrogant. You want to be positive and confident, but cocky is a turn off,” says Lynne Sarikas, director of the MBA Career Center […]

Some analysts argue that the residency law has outlived its usefulness in a city with a surging population and rising housing costs. Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone said the policy would make sense only if the city was providing housing that allowed people to live in Boston at an affordable price. “It seems to me […]

The number of military veterans enrolling in colleges across Massachusetts has increased over the last three years, and the schools are preparing for more as troop withdrawals in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere return tens of thousands of military personnel to civilian life. Local campuses are stepping up their support of veterans, setting up resource centers […]

During the second half, Northeastern University worked on several science projects and the aquanauts collected DNA from 12 species of sponges to send to the Ocean Genome Legacy, a nonprofit with a mission to explore, preserve and protect the genetic biodiversity of the oceans. And aquanaut Grace Young, who just graduated from MIT, used the […]

In our market-based system, patients can get lucrative procedures rapidly, even when there is no urgent medical need: Need a new knee, or an M.R.I., or a Botox injection? You’ll probably be on the schedule within days. But what if you’re an asthmatic whose breathing is deteriorating, or a diabetic whose medicines need adjustment, or […]

The research was just one experiment in a lab, but it does point to the larger subject of striking a balance between connectedness and isolation in the digital age. “The connection facilitates the search and discovery process,” said David Lazer, a co-author and professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern University. “Then, you […]

The 2014 World Cup in Brazil is over as far as the United States team is concerned. The extra time defeat at the hands (actually, the feet) of Belgian squad ended the dream. It has been a remarkable few weeks for soccer among Americans with incessant media hype and an avid public response to a […]

While the Labor Department reported job growth of 288,000 jobs in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates job growth for biomanufacturing technicians will be about 10 percent from 2012 to 2022. This should translate into 8,000 new jobs over the decade. Hundreds of those jobs will be added in Massachusetts, the state with […]

Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University, told The Post the emphasis in this case has been on the girls’ relationship to Slender Man when it should be on their relationship to each other. “This was a secret shared by two girls, a plan hatched in private, a pact made between […]

The 1.7 million students who graduated from American colleges and universities in recent months, their newly minted bachelor’s degrees in hand, face bleak prospects. Their average student-loan debt is some $33,000. The underemployment rate for recent graduates is 44 percent, meaning the jobs many get won’t require the bachelor’s degrees they just earned. And since […]

Fabien Cousteau, grandson of famed French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, is due to emerge from the turquoise waters off the Florida Keys on Tuesday morning, marking the end of a record-breaking, 31-day stay inside an underwater habitat with a team of scientists and documentary filmmakers. The younger Cousteau, 46, along with two “aquanauts,” took the 60-foot […]

Today, the cloud infrastructure market is dominated by several big companies – Amazon, Google and Microsoft — but a public/business/academia partnership called the Massachusetts Open Cloud project is hoping to change that by creating an open computing marketplace where you can negotiate whatever services you need from multiple infrastructure vendors. Peter Desnoyers, a professor at […]