For entrepreneurial students, there’s a new source of capital on campus this fall: theDorm Room Fund is coming to Boston. The fund, backed by Philadelphia-basedFirst Round Capital, will have $500,000 to invest in student startups over the next two years. And a student investment team will be giving deals the green light. “Students will have a […]

Here is The Post’s review of major movement on the U.S. News national universities list since the 2010-11 edition, released three years ago. The analysis encompasses schools that were on the top 200 lists this year and three years ago. (Yes, we know there is a national liberal arts list too. We’ll try to look at that […]

With her story Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, historian Carla Kaplan, who teaches at Northeastern University, introduces readers more fully to those women. (“Miss Anne” is a generic term within the black community for white women, especially those who rely on the privilege of their race. Kaplan’s use of it […]

The Boston Business Journal on Monday announced the 2013 class of 40 under 40 honorees — business and civic leaders who collectively represent the next wave of talent and commitment in the Boston economy. Judges reviewed more than 250 nominations, considering professional accomplishments and community involvement. “The Boston business community will recognize many of these names because […]

Unless they plan to go directly to graduate school, recent graduates need more exposure to the real world of work, short-term opportunities to exercise their knowledge and talents and explore their interests before going on the job market. Some get that through internships or attend the few colleges, such as Northeastern University or Drexel University, […]

Prof. Leonard J. Glick, Professor of management and organizational development at Boston’sNortheastern University, teaches the art of motivating employees for a living. He let FORBES in on a few tips for entrepreneurs and managers looking to keep their people smiling and producing.

The New England Economic Partnership, a nonprofit forecasting group, projects that construction will experience the strongest job growth over the next five years, increasing employment by more than 25 percent by the end of 2017. “Construction was hit hardest in the recession,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor. “Over the coming years it […]

“It looks really promising, and I think it’s going to be huge,” she says, likening it to the feminist cultural studies’ answer to “Lean In.” Also high on Cass’s list: Northeastern University literature professor Carla Kaplan’s social history, “Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance” (September), and Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s […]

In 2006, when he came to Northeastern University from the University of Southern California, one of Joseph Aoun’s first decisions was to move the president’s office to Roxbury. Now, as he works on the latest leap in the school’s decades-long transformation, Aoun is trying to bring Northeastern’s campus to him. Northeastern officials aim to make a new science center […]

IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards) may object to any type of arrangement that entails ownership of the oil and gas fields or their revenues by a foreign company, professor of economics at U.S. Northeastern University, Kamran Dadkhah told Trend. He was commenting on the possibility of foreign companies coming back to Iran, for investing in country’s […]

A collection of typewriters formerly owned by some of the most iconic figures of the 20th century is on display now at Northeastern University’sGallery 360. The “Celebrity Type” exhibit, which marks the collection’s East Coast debut, features names as famous as Ernest Hemingway and as infamous as Theodore Kaczynski. Collector Steven Soboroff says he has […]

Northeastern University raised $63.3 million in new donations and pledges since May, the school said Wednesday in a statement. The school’s annual fundraising average has tripled since 2005, according to the statement. Last fiscal year, a total of 13,103 donors made gifts — a record for the university. “North­eastern has a bold vision for the future […]