Earlier this year, Massachusetts had regained all of the jobs lost in the last recession, but the economy has since created jobs more slowly than expected. Employers cut jobs in five of the first eight months of 2013, state statistics show, and the unemployment rate has risen nearly a point since March, when it fell […]

PreApps, Boston • Tagline: “Changing the way mobile apps are built and discovered” • Seeking $750,000 • Why notable: Alum of Northeastern’s IDEA accelerator; advisors include former Apple and Apperian executive Chuck Goldman   Splashscore, Boston • Tagline: “Performance-based influencer advertising” • Seeking $500,000 • Why notable: Alum of Betaspring and Northeastern University IDEA accelerators; […]

Standing steps from Northeastern’s 3D printing studio Thursday night, visiting professor Janos Stone urged the huddled crowd of intrigued, inquiring students, “3D printing has barely been explored.” The university ushered in November by hosting a 3D Printing Week, in an effort to acquaint the community with the cutting-edge tools newly available on the second floor of […]

In his 1910 essay on “The American Boy“, Theodore Roosevelt wrote about the value of athletics, specifically football, and the lessons that sports can teach. He said, “in life, as in a football game, the principal to follow is: hit the ground hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.” Words to […]

CITIES CAN BE TOUGH places to get around—and Boston is among the toughest, but it’s also ripe for a solution. Call it HUBus. Here’s the picture: As you linger over your morning coffee, your phone beeps to tell you the HUBus is two minutes away. But there’s another one in 10 minutes, and you decide to […]

Professor Barbara Okun, who teaches counseling psychology at Northeastern University and has a private practice, says a client recently told her about going on a trip with other mothers. “She said these other women were on the phone seven or eight times a day with their college kids,” says Okun. “I had to say it’s […]

In addition, housing is limited. The new arrivals are competing with middle- and lower-income families for the older, existing housing stock, said Barry Bluestone, the director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “The prices of triple-deckers are going through the roof now,” he said, and longtime residents are being […]

FORTY-FOUR years before German Chancellor Angela Merkel discovered that the National Security Agency had been listening to her cellphone calls, President Nixon met with South Korean President Park Chung-Hee to discuss a substantial boost in American military aid to thwart a worrisome threat from North Korea. That August 1969, summit meeting in San Francisco was as […]

Boston may be known for its concentration of top-notch colleges and universities. ButRalph C. Martin II, the general counsel at Northeastern University, worries about the repercussions if city officials take that position for granted. Students flock to Boston today, Martin said, but there’s no guarantee that will continue. “In order for (higher education) to continue […]